Mehmet Ulubasoglu

Prof Mehmet Ulubasoglu

Researcher
About
Prof Mehmet Ulubasoglu

Professor Mehmet Ulubasoglu is the Director of the Centre for Energy, the Environment and Natural Disasters at Deakin University. Mehmet has been awarded several research projects as chief investigator both nationally and internationally, including the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, and Asia-Pacific Network, and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre. He has also held consultancy roles for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.

Mehmet investigates the economic resilience of individuals to natural disasters of various scales and types, to inform a sustainable natural disaster recovery model that allocates scarce disaster resources towards the most vulnerable individuals and demographic groups within the community.

Project leadership

This project has estimated the impact of four natural hazards in recent Australian history on income of individuals residing in disaster-hit areas. By defining individuals’ ability to return to their pre-disaster income levels as economic resilience, the research team focused on the following case studies: the 2009 Victorian Black Saturday bushfires, the 2009 Toodyay bushfires, 2013’s Tropical Cyclone Oswald in Queensland, and the 2010-11 Queensland floods. Through real-life case studies, this research helps illustrate how these events—of different types, localities, and scales—impact and ripple through communities and the broader economy over time. The research found that the extent of the economic impact of disasters on individuals’ income depends on the type, intensity, and location of the disaster. The project has produced four research reports pertaining to each case study, along with four policy briefs that summarised each report. The project also produced demographic profiling analyses for each disaster analysed. The findings from these four case studies were disseminated to a national audience through a webinar in August 2020.
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Resources credited

Type Released Title Download Key Topics
External Resource 01 Nov 2020 The unequal burden of disasters in Australia communities, economics, multi-hazard
Guide-Fact Sheet 11 Aug 2020 Disasters and economic resilience: the effects of the 2010-11 Queensland floods on individual income PDF icon Save (2.26 MB)
Guide-Fact Sheet 11 Aug 2020 Disasters and economic resilience in small regional communities: the case of Toodyay PDF icon Save (1.22 MB)
Presentation-Slideshow 11 Aug 2020 Economics in disaster recovery: Optimising post-disaster recovery interventions in Australia PDF icon Save (3.09 MB) communities, recovery, risk analysis
Guide-Fact Sheet 11 Aug 2020 Download key case study research reports and policy briefs economics, modelling, multi-hazard
Guide-Fact Sheet 11 Aug 2020 Disasters and economic resilience: the effects of the Black Saturday bushfires on individual income PDF icon Save (5.21 MB)
Guide-Fact Sheet 11 Aug 2020 Disasters and economic resilience: the income effects of 2013 Tropical Cyclone Oswald on small business owners PDF icon Save (2.3 MB)
Presentation-Slideshow 27 Aug 2019 Disaster and economic resilience in Small Regional Communities: The case of Toodyay PDF icon Save (387.39 KB) economics, recovery
Presentation-Slideshow 09 Jul 2019 Disaster and economic resilience in Small Regional Communities: The case of Toodyay PDF icon Save (607.65 KB) economics, planning, policy
External Resource 15 May 2019 Black Saturday bushfires: counting the cost communities, economics, fire
Presentation-Slideshow 18 Sep 2018 Disasters and economic resilience: Income effects of the Black Saturday bushfires on disaster-hit individuals PDF icon Save (1.94 MB) economics, fire impacts
Presentation-Slideshow 16 Apr 2018 Utilising Census Data to Inform Public Policy PDF icon Save (1016.35 KB) emergency management, recovery, response
Presentation-Slideshow 07 Sep 2017 Unpacking the sectoral income effects of natural disasters: evidence from the 2010-11 Queensland floods PDF icon Save (3.54 MB) economics, flood, modelling
Presentation-Slideshow 05 Apr 2017 Optimising Post-Disaster Recovery Interventions in Australia PDF icon Save (5.73 MB) economics, modelling, multi-hazard
HazardNoteEdition 15 Dec 2016 What can economics offer emergency services? PDF icon Save (891.78 KB) decision making, economics, policy
Presentation-Audio-Video 27 Oct 2016 Pre-disaster multi-hazard damage and economic loss estimation model - project overview File Save (0 bytes) economics, flood, policy
Presentation-Slideshow 10 Apr 2015 Damage and Economic Loss Estimation Model 2015 NSW RAF Presentation PDF icon Save (2.54 MB) economics, modelling, multi-hazard
Presentation-Slideshow 19 Mar 2014 Pre-disaster damage and economic loss estimation model PDF icon Save (319.22 KB) economics, emergency management, multi-hazard

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