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
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational performance: Part four organisational performance research stream	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Emergency management and policy: research impact and utilisation	Biblio	save (397.64 KB)	emergency management, governance, policy
Safety awareness of firefighters and their perception of fire risks in cladding fires	Biblio	save (2.08 MB)	emergency management, fire impacts, firefighter
A comparison of the discrete cosine and wavelet transforms for hydrologic model input data reduction	Biblio		emergency management, flood
Proposed tools for monitoring teams in emergency management	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
The value of disaster research: a review of the literature	Biblio	save (1.16 MB)	economics, emergency management
Civil society mobilisation after Cyclone Tracy, Darwin 1974	Biblio	save (2.52 MB)	capability, emergency management, organisational
Practical Decision Tools for Improved Decision-Making in Complex Situations Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (584.65 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement	Biblio		communication, education, emergency management
Improved predictions of extreme sea levels around Australia	Biblio	save (3.75 MB)	emergency management, risk management, storm surge
A Seasonal-Window Ensemble-Based Thresholding Technique Used to Detect Active Fires in Geostationary Remotely Sensed Data	Biblio		emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Candidate Interoperability Needs Amongst Response & Recovery Groups	Biblio	save (1.99 MB)	capability, emergency management
Valuing volunteers: better understanding the primary motives for volunteering in Australian emergency services	Biblio	save (1.86 MB)	communities, emergency management, volunteering
My grab bag is two suitcases: an autoethnographical view of a super-plus size self-evacuation from Hurricane Irma	Biblio		diversity and inclusion, emergency management, vulnerability
What are the safety implications of dynamic fire behaviours?	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
How emergency services organisations can – and do – utilise research	Biblio		communication, decision making, emergency management
Townsville flood 2019 - post event data collection	Project		emergency management, flood, warnings
Reducing turnover in volunteer organisations: A leadership intervention based on self-determination theory	Biblio	save (1.77 MB)	emergency management, recruitment, volunteering
The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (576.19 KB)	emergency management, resilience
Earthquake Scenario, Melbourne	Biblio	save (3.44 MB)	earthquake, emergency management, scenario analysis
The value of research from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	economics, emergency management
Established and emerging uses of predictive services in Victoria	Biblio	save (895.93 KB)	emergency management, fire, firefighter
Incident Management Approaches above the Incident Management Team Level in Australia	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
Influence of road characteristics on flood fatalities in Australia	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	emergency management, flood, preparedness
Transformative scenarios in a climate challenged world - a guide for using scenarios in the emergency management sector	Biblio	save (2.92 MB)	climate change, emergency management, governance
Research proceedings from the 2017 Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and AFAC Conference	Biblio	save (18.1 MB)	emergency management, land management, multi-hazard
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
An assessment of the opportunities to improve strategic decision-making in emergency and disaster management	Biblio	save (259.81 KB)	decision making, emergency management, response
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
Planning and capability requirements for catastrophic and cascading disasters - final project report	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	capability, emergency management, multi-hazard
Working from the inside out to improve utilisation of research in decision making	Biblio	save (701.09 KB)	diversity and inclusion, emergency management
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
Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales	Biblio		emergency management, fire, planning
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