New journal articles on CRC research are available on our website.
CRC PhD student Susan Hunt as explored the role of government in building adaptive capacities for disaster resilience in the Australian Journal of Emergency Management. The paper cities a lack of guidance for resilience policy implementation and proposes a resilience policy implementation framework that could be applied by practitioners.
Secondary Traumatic Stress in Postdisaster Field Research Interviewers looks at the experiences of post-disaster field research interviewers. During the period 2009—2014, post-bushfire research interviews were conducted with residents affected by seven major bushfires in four states. There were 33 research interviewers who reported their experiences, and 18 of them (54.5%) described distressing interviews involving deaths, surviving severe threats to life, and destruction of houses. There were 27 (81.6%) who reported having experienced one or more secondary traumatic stress symptoms on a 20-item measure. Those who conducted interviews following a multi-fatality bushfire reported higher levels of secondary traumatic stress symptoms compared with researchers whose interviews followed non-fatal bushfires. The report that this paper is based on is also available on our website.
Commissioned research for the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning investigates predicting dead fine fuel moisture at a regional level, compared to the more common approach of using live fine fuels. More information is available here.