@article {bnh-6828, title = {Children, bushfire and climate change}, journal = {Advocate: Journal of the National Tertiary Education Union}, volume = {27}, year = {2020}, month = {03/2020}, abstract = {

In November 2008, I sat around a table at Warrandyte Primary School with a small group of 10-year-old students. I was interviewing them for my doctoral research on children{\textquoteright}s knowledge of vulnerability and resilience to bushfire in south-eastern Australia. The children told me what they loved about their beautiful bush suburb on the edge of the city: the trees, the river, the wildlife, and all the great places to play and explore. They also told me about the extreme bushfire risk. {\textquoteright}It{\textquoteright}s going to be a really bad bushfire season{\textquoteright}, one of them said. {\textquoteright}It{\textquoteright}s been a really long drought and the bush around here is really dry. Everything could go up. Just like that{\textquoteright}. They all agreed that everyone needed to get prepared before summer arrived. A few months later, on 7 February 2009, the Black Saturday bushfires razed dozens of communities around Victoria: 173 people were killed, including 24 children. Hundreds of people were injured. Over 2000 homes were destroyed. Natural ecosystems were devastated. Everything went up. Just like that.

}, url = {https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=034005191172667;res=IELBUS}, author = {Briony Towers} }