Resilience to Hazards
About
This theme aims to improve the conceptualisation of resilience and the factors that both promote and inhibit its development. Improved understanding of these factors will optimise the development of a capability to identify vulnerability, manage the risk and enable resilience.
Projects in this research theme, by cluster
Project | Research leader | Affiliation |
---|---|---|
Hazards, culture and Indigenous communities |
Dr Jessica Weir | Western Sydney University |
The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: A system for assessing the resilience of Australian communities to natural hazards |
Dr Melissa Parsons | University of New England |
Recovery Capitals |
Prof Lisa Gibbs | University of Melbourne |
Developing effective emergency management partnerships in remote northern Australian communities |
Adj Prof Jeremy Russell-Smith | Charles Darwin University |
Northern Australian bushfire and natural hazard training |
Steve Sutton | Charles Darwin University |
Project | Research leader | Affiliation |
---|---|---|
Diversity and inclusion: building strength and capability |
Celeste Young | Victoria University |
National mental health and wellbeing study of police and emergency services |
Prof David Lawrence | University of Western Australia |
Catastrophic and cascading events: planning and capability |
Andrew Gissing | Risk Frontiers |
Capability needs for emergency & disaster management organisations |
Dr Paul Barnes | Queensland University of Technology |
Improving decision-making in complex multi-team environments |
A/Prof Chris Bearman | CQUniversity |
Impact-based forecasting for the coastal zone: East Coast Lows |
Dr Harald Richter | Bureau of Meteorology |
Project | Research leader | Affiliation |
---|---|---|
Improving the retention and engagement of volunteers in emergency service agencies |
A/Prof Michael Jones | University of Wollongong |
Out of uniform: building community resilience through non-traditional emergency volunteering |
Prof John Handmer | RMIT University |
Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering |
Dr Blythe McLennan | RMIT University |
Projects by cluster
In the media
21 Oct
ABC Goulburn Murray
20 Oct
Meteorological Technology International
08 Oct
news.com.au
07 Oct
University of Western Australia
24 Sep
University of Melbourne Pursuit