'You have utterly no clue': why 'climate emergency' is Australia's ultimate outrage trigger Read moreThe data-hungry nature of modern bushfire management isn’t just in the emergency operations space. Like most things in life, the reality is more difficult – large scale fuel reduction is one of the most complex land management treatments to organise and implement. Despite this, agencies met or exceeded their hazard reduction targets this year, which highlights how overwhelming the fire weather extremes have been – in a lot of areas the fuel reduction simply didn’t work. This needs to be combined with resilient house design and intensive fuel reduction in the immediate surrounds of houses (within eight metres) for maximum effect. The chapters on fire provide a well-researched summary of how Indigenous fire management worked that is accessible to a wide audience.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2019 03:05 UTC