Key topics

emergency management

Emergency management is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding both natural and manmade disasters. It involves preparedness, response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Public health and natural hazards: new policies and preparedness initiatives developed from an Australian bushfire case study	Biblio	save (84.72 KB)	emergency management, mental health, resilience
We have not lived long enough: Sensemaking and learning from bushfire in Australia	Biblio		emergency management, governance, policy
Monitoring, evaluation and learning toolkit	Biblio	save (1.29 MB)	communities, emergency management, preparedness
Expanding protection motivation theory: investigating an application to animal owners and emergency responders in bushfire emergencies	Biblio		animals, emergency management
Prevalence and predictors of mental health in firefighters	Biblio	save (604.44 KB)	capability, emergency management, resilience
Planning and capability requirements for catastrophic and cascading disasters - final project report	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	capability, emergency management, multi-hazard
Impact-based forecasting for the coastal zone	Biblio	save (657.21 KB)	coastal, emergency management, storm surge
Improving volunteer recruitment and retention: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (1.46 MB)	emergency management, recruitment, volunteering
A characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme events in southeast Australia: Stage 1 – common features of recent events	Biblio	save (21.94 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, severe weather
Community benefits of roof upgrades	Biblio	save (8.24 MB)	cyclone, emergency management, severe weather
How risk informs natural hazard management: a study of the interface between risk modelling and local government policies and procedures	Biblio	save (343.48 KB)	emergency management, modelling, policy
Influence of road characteristics on flood fatalities in Australia	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	emergency management, flood, preparedness
Are we future ready? It depends on who you ask	Biblio	save (1.59 MB)	emergency management, vulnerability, warnings
Long-term solutions to improve emergency management services in remote communities in northern Australia	Biblio		communities, emergency management, Northern Australia
Effective Representation of River Geometry in Hydraulic Flood Forecast Models	Biblio	save (1.75 MB)	emergency management, flood, risk management
Economics of natural hazards annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (1.16 MB)	emergency management, governance, risk management
A formative evaluation of the Triple Zero Kids’ Challenge Teacher’s Guide	Biblio		child-centred, communication, emergency management
Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation	Biblio		emergency management, environments, risk management
Professionalism: certification for emergency management leaders	Biblio	save (251.72 KB)	capability, emergency management, organisational
Get ready NSW- fostering all hazards resilience in local communities	Biblio	save (667.19 KB)	communities, emergency management, resilience
Using discrete event simulation cellular automata models to determine multi-mode travel times and routes of terrestrial suppression resources to wildland fires	Biblio		emergency management, fire
Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for north Australia	Biblio	save (3.32 MB)	emergency management, planning, savanna grasslands
Overcoming Ambiguity: Conflict Between Emergency Warning Messages and Socio-Environmental Cues	Biblio		communication, emergency management, warnings
The lived experience of disadvantaged communities affected by the 2015 South Indian Floods: Implications for disaster risk reduction dialogue	Biblio		communities, emergency management, vulnerability
The post disaster city: crisis politics and social change in community led earthquake recovery	Biblio	save (25.5 MB)	capability, communities, emergency management
Cost-Effective Mitigation Strategy Development for Building Related Earthquake Risk Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (3.04 MB)	earthquake, emergency management, mitigation
We have not lived long enough: Sensemaking and learning from bushfire in Australia	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
Emergency volunteering 2030: Views from the community sector	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	emergency management, volunteering
Preparing emergency services for operations in a climate-challenged world	Project		climate change, emergency management, governance
Final report on vulnerability of as-built and retrofitted URM buildings	Biblio	save (1.13 MB)	earthquake, emergency management
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational performance: Part two decision making research stream	Biblio	save (1.45 MB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Disaster Management in Australia: Government Coordination in a Time of Crisis	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, governance
Established and emerging uses of predictive services	Project		emergency management, fire, firefighter
Catastrophic and cascading events: planning and capability	Project		capability, emergency management, multi-hazard
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational learning in emergency management: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (863.67 KB)	decision making, emergency management
Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, multi-hazard
Ecosystem resilience - technological advances to increases efficiency of ecosystem resilience monitoring	Project		emergency management, modelling, resilience
State Emergency Service volunteer views on expectations, experiences and motivations	Biblio	save (768.9 KB)	emergency management, volunteering
Breakdowns in coordinated decision making at and above the incident management team level: An analysis of three large scale Australian wildfires	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
Research proceedings from the 2018 Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and AFAC Conference	Biblio	save (15.24 MB)	emergency management, land management, multi-hazard