The Fires Next Time
Understanding Australia's Black Summer
$23.84
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
28 November 2023
Summary
Australia’s Black Summer Fires.
Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian continent aflame. The Black Summer fires were unprecedented. Over six months in 2019-20 they burned more than 24 million hectares of Australia’s southern and eastern forests - one of the largest areas burnt anywhere on Earth in a single event. The fires killed 33 people and 430 more died as an indirect consequence and they caused …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522879421 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 052287942X |
| Author: | Peter Christoff |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 474g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 181mm x 238mm |
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Peter Christoff
Peter Christoff is a political scientist, a senior Research Fellow with the Melbourne Climate Futures Initiative, and an honorary Associate Professor with the School of Geography, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He writes about Australian and international climate and environmental politics and policy, and his books include Globalisation and the Environment (co-authored with Robyn Eckersley) and Four Degrees of Global Warming- Australia in a Hot World.
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