Questions of management and policy amidst Australia鈥檚 bushfire crisis
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Recent weather and climate-related disasters, especially the bushfires, have stretched Australia鈥檚 largely 鈥榲olunteer鈥� emergency management workforce to breaking point. The current state and federal approaches to disaster management are failing, as there are inadequate laws and policies to fund government agencies and compensate victims, especially where they are uninsured. With the government defunding research and ignoring recommendations on disasters, resilience and adaptation planning, is a community-based, collaborative approach the only way forward?
Yet, the impediment to such comprehensive action is that, for many people, the scale of the threat remains beyond imagination. An urgent challenge is therefore the question of representation, especially representation of the multispecies devastation, to ensure that the graphic horror of the recent bushfires is not lost in the danger of abstractness.
This event was presented at the 爆料王 on Wednesday 26 February.
Speakers
- Danielle Celermajer聽is a Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the 爆料王.
- Rosemary Lyster聽is the Professor of Climate and Environmental Law at the 爆料王 Law School and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.聽
- Michael Mann聽is a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC).
- David Schlosberg聽is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations, Payne-Scott Professor, and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the 爆料王
- Christopher Wright聽is a Professor of Organisational Studies at the 爆料王 Business School.
- Tanya Fiedler聽(Chair) is a lecturer in the Discipline of Accounting at the 爆料王.
Header image:聽Australia December, 2019. Smoke from bushfires covers the sky and glowing sun barely seen through the smoke, via Shutterstock ID: 1580277991.