Key topics

communities

Communities refers to groups of people living in the same place, who share particular characteristics or endeavours.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Too good to be true? How a remote island community developed a 100% effective risk communication strategy and what Australia can learn from it	Biblio	save (424.75 KB)	communication, communities, resilience
Legal Complexities of Entry, Rescue, Seizure and Disposal of Disaster-Affected Companion Animals in New Zealand	Biblio	save (217.53 KB)	animals, communities, resilience
Dimensions of Risk Justice and Resilience: Mapping Urban Planning’s Role Between Individual Versus Collective Rights	Biblio		communities, decision making, recovery
Post-disaster recovery following recent natural hazard events and risk reduction measures in Australia and Japan	Project		communities, governance, recovery
Enhancing public information practice in Tasmania’s emergency services (TFS and SES)	Project		communities, emergency management
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community risk	Biblio	save (5.46 MB)	communities, modelling, severe weather
Urbanisation pressures and flood risk: Gawler River catchment and regional development	Biblio	save (6.37 MB)	communities, decision making, flood
An owner-driven reconstruction in Bihar	Biblio		communities, recovery, resilience
Diversity and inclusion: Building strength and capability - Annual Report 2019	Biblio	save (1.58 MB)	capability, communities, vulnerability
Building Resilient Remote Communities in Northern Australia Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (732.25 KB)	communities, indigenous communities, local knowledge
Towards fire-adaptive communities in Australia	Project		communities, fire, resilience
Animal emergency management in South Australia: a case study of the Sampson Flat bushfire	Biblio		animals, communities, emergency management
Checks and balances: A business‐oriented lens on disaster management and warnings	Biblio		communication, communities, warnings
Reducing bushfire risk to vulnerable community members through health and community services agencies – business continuity approach	Biblio	save (687.64 KB)	communities, emergency management, fire
Why do people decide to drive through floodwater? Utilising virtual reality to assess motivations and behaviour associated with driving through floodwater	Project		communities, decision making, flood
Predicting delay in residents’ decisions on defending v. evacuating through antecedents of decision avoidance	Biblio		communication, communities, preparedness
Disaster Resilient Communities: Engagement with Spontaneous Volunteer Groups	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	communities, emergency management, volunteering
Animal ownership among vulnerable populations in regional South Australia: implications for natural disaster preparedness and resilience	Biblio		animals, communities, vulnerability
Contacts versus connectors: The role of Community Fire Safe Group coordinators in achieving positive bushfire safety outcomes	Biblio		communication, communities, warnings
Recovery Capitals (ReCap): navigating the complexities of disaster recovery - final project report	Biblio	save (2.28 MB)	communities, recovery
Predicting risk-mitigating behaviors from indecisiveness and trait-anxiety: two cognitive pathways to task avoidance	Biblio		communication, communities, preparedness
Assessing community resilience for emergencies in local government policy - Maroondah City Council and Knox City Council case studies	Project		communities, emergency management, resilience
Social Media, Crisis Communication and Community-led Response and Recovery: An Australian Case Study Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (532.41 KB)	communication, communities
Community adaptation to cope with disaster related road structure failure	Biblio	save (399.28 KB)	communities, multi-hazard, resilience
A community engagement approach to natural hazard communication	Biblio		communication, communities, resilience
Bushfire survival preparations by householders in at-risk areas of south-eastern Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, planning
2014 South Australia post-incident task force	Project		communication, communities, warnings
Child Health and Survival in a Changing Climate: Vulnerability, Mitigation, and Adaptation	Biblio		child-centred, communities, risk management
Evidence-based risk communication: an industry-academic research collaboration that enhanced dam release message effectiveness	Biblio	save (365.96 KB)	communication, communities, warnings
An integrative review of the 2017 Port Hill fires' impact on animals, their owners and first responders’ encounters with the human-animal interface	Biblio		animals, communities, response
Homelessness and severe storms: a case study of the June 2016 East Coast Low	Project		communities, flood, severe weather
Developing effective emergency management partnerships in remote north Australian communities - final project report	Biblio	save (2.85 MB)	communities, governance, Northern Australia
Literature review on community resilience in remote north Australia	Biblio	save (1.41 MB)	communities, Northern Australia, resilience
A novel framework for owner driven reconstruction projects to enhance disaster resilience in the long term	Biblio		capability, communities, resilience
Using the human centred design method to develop tools for non-technical skills in emergency management	Biblio	save (666.71 KB)	communities, decision making, emergency management
Volunteered geographic information, community engagement and bushfire preparation	Project		communities, local knowledge, volunteering
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (816.16 KB)	communities, forecasting, severe weather
Empowering remote Indigenous communities in natural disaster prone northern Australia	Biblio		communities, indigenous communities, resilience
Surviving bushfire: the role of shelters and sheltering practices during the Black Saturday bushfires	Biblio		communities, decision making, fire
Defining Sufficient Household Preparedness for Active Wildfire Defense: Toward an Australian Baseline	Biblio		communication, communities, preparedness