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#NA-03-09 Bushfires: Response, Relief and Resilience

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#NA-03-09 Bushfires: Response, Relief and Resilience

  • Categories Nature
  • Duration 16h
  • Total Enrolled 4
  • Last Update September 25, 2020

About Course

The University of Newcastle Australia

Description

Why join the course?

The increasing impact of climate change is exacerbating the risk factors of natural disasters such as bushfires/wildfires, therefore individuals and organisations must learn to respond to emergencies, survive and recover from humanitarian crises that are beyond their current expertise.

Challenges and lessons learned from disaster recovery globally suggest that there is a need for individuals and community leaders to understand more about fire disasters. The causes, mitigation, seeking help and longer term recovery. By the end of this course, you will gain knowledge on bushfire hazards and causes, propensity to spread, impacts and what we can do to recover quickly.

This course is significant for individuals and the public interested in gaining knowledge about reducing their vulnerability to bushfires, effective coping strategies in the aftermath of a bushfire event and building resilience in the face of future disasters.

What topics will you cover?

  • Identify drivers of bushfire risks
  • Assess the various mechanisms through which bushfires attack
  • Explore the impact of bushfires from multiple perspectives
  • Explore essentials for bushfire resilience and benefits of community-led bushfire recovery
  • Identify coping strategies for affected people and effective coping strategies

 

Who developed the course?

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The University of Newcastle Australia

The University of Newcastle is a world-class university distinguished by a commitment to equity and excellence. Ranked in Australia’s Top 10 universities, and 197th in the world (QS rankings, 2021).

 

 

Topics for this course

12 Lessons16h

Introduction to this course?

You'll be introduced to bushfires and their impact. You'll also find a roadmap to the major themes and ideas that will be explored later in the course.
Welcome to the course
How to make the most of this course
Your experiences with bushfires
Getting started

What factors propel bushfire occurrence and risk??

We will explore the role that fuel loads, weather and landscapes play in ignition of bushfires and the mechanisms by which bushfires spread and attack.

What are the impacts of bushfires??

Together we explore the environmental, social and economic impacts of bushfires

Learning from the past, planning for the future?

Here we will examine a case study and look at bushfire planning for households.

End of the course?

Finish the week with some reflection and a short quiz to consolidate your learning.

Student Feedback

4.8

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KN

This course is of interest to individuals and the public in understanding how to reduce the vulnerability to forest fires, effective coping strategies in the event of forest fires, and building resilience in the face of future disasters,

CK

The global challenges and lessons learned from disaster recovery demonstrate the need for individual and community leaders to learn more about fire disasters. This course should be a must.

LA

The section of the course on the elements of forest fire resilience and the benefits of community-led forest fire recovery is well presented.

RK

Forest fires are common disasters, many of which are man-made. This course is very good. Each of us will come into contact with the forest and should study hard.

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Material Includes

  • Official Certificate

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The University of Newcastle Australia

Target Audience

  • The course is relevant for individuals and communities looking at gaining understanding on bushfire risk reduction and resilience.