Stories from the Ashes: Exploring young rural adults' psychosocial recovery beyond the 2009 Gippsland bushfires

This thesis explores young rural adults’ psychosocial recovery beyond the 2009 Gippsland bushfires and addresses the paucity of research on young adults’ recovery from this disaster. Because of climate change, scientists predict such events are likely to increase in frequency and severity. Climate change has the potential to profoundly affect the Gippsland region’s social, environmental, economic, and health outcomes, and recovery needs into the future.