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Disaster in relation to attachment, loss, grief and recovery: the Marysville exp
Seismic Assessment and Design Philosophy of Reinforced Concrete in Australia
A strategic analysis of preventable residential fire fatalities
Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of recommendations
Investigation of the suitability of aviation tracking data for use in bushfire s
Social, economic, and environmental impacts of the 2012/13 Victorian fire season
The value of disaster research
Understanding heatwave and building codes in NSW
Analysis and simulation of surface wind fields during landfalling tropical cyclo
Changes to urban planning's bushfire risk management approach in Victoria a
Economic analysis of prescribed burning
Economic evaluation of prescribed fire as a bushfire risk mitigation tool for so
Flood management in a changing climate: integrating effective approaches
Implementing policy to enable disaster resilience in the Australian Federation
Improved approaches to natural hazard disaster risk reduction
Improved calibration of spatially distributed models to simulate disaster risk
Improving disaster risk communication in various disaster scenarios
Methods to develop long term, efficacious risk mitigation policies
Modelling the impact of lifeline infrastructure failure during natural hazard ev
Planning for bushfire protection: maintenance of bushfire protection measures
Planning for bushfire risk at the urban bushland interface: A local adaptive gov
Pre-disaster flood damage assessment in urban areas
Restor(y)ing fire-adapted landscapes: landscape change, Indigenous co-management
Taking fire: the historical and contemporary politics of Indigenous burning in A
Understanding the nature of abrupt regional shifts in a changing climate
Urban planning and resilience to bushfires
We have not lived long enough: sensemaking and learning from bushfire in Austral
What human capacity demands should inform the development and appointment of an
Whole of government and crisis management: understanding coordination in a time
An analysis of building losses and human fatalities from natural disasters
Economics of natural hazards
Improved decision support for natural hazard risk reduction
Mapping and understanding bushfire and natural hazard vulnerability and risks at
Optimising post-disaster recovery interventions in Australia
Policies, institutions and governance
Scientific diversity and uncertainty in risk mitigation policy and planning
Urban planning for natural hazard mitigation
Using realistic disaster scenario analysis to understand natural hazard impacts
Analysis of community responses to the 2017 heatwave
Homelessness and severe storms: a case study of the June 2016 East Coast Low
Immediate post-fire vegetation re-measurement of TERN plots burnt during 2015/16
Study of heatwave impacts on residents and businesses in western Sydney - 2017
Characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme even
Mapping approaches to community engagement for preparedness in Australia
Positive mental health in young adult emergency services personnel
Re-imagining program evaluation for community resilience outcomes
Risks assessments of non-compliant materials on buildings
SES fit for task
2014 Parkerville WA post-incident task force
2014 South Australia post-incident task force
2015 Sampson Flat SA post-incident task force
2017 NSW post-incident task force
2018 Reedy Swamp fire post-incident task force
Activation of community fire units in the Blue Mountains during the October 2013
Application of self-evacuation archetypes
Assessing community resilience for emergencies in local government policy - Maro
Community attitudes and experiences of the 2019/20 NSW bushfire season
Creation of a grassland curing dataset
Evaluation of ecosystem resilience data
Flood risk mitigation assessment for Launceston
October 2013 NSW post-incident task force
Optimising emergency services resourcing: informing SAFECOM's capability pl
QFES Strategy 2030
Quantifying catastrophic bushfire consequence
Risk communications in Victoria
Smoke impacts on community health and social perceptions
Understanding experiences and recovery capabilities of diverse communities in Gi
Understanding the impact of climate change on fire weather variables
A mixed methodological evaluation of the effectiveness of Key Safety Messages in
Advancing public health in the context of natural hazards: normalising preparedn
Agency experts supporting bushfire disaster resilience education for primary sch
An evaluation of Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire
Animal emergency management in New Zealand
Collapse behaviour of limited ductile high-strength reinforced concrete columns
Community engagement in the post-disaster landscape
Community volunteering and disaster recovery
Comprehensive school safety: a participatory approach to school bushfire emergen
Connecting communities: Integration of disaster preparedness measures at househo
Coping with disasters by children and families who live in poverty
Cultural drivers of disaster response behaviour and their cross-cultural applica
Developing leadership to retain volunteers in emergency service organisations
Domestic architecture and the perception of risk in bushfire-prone areas
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: consideration
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans
Enhancing multiagency collaboration for animal welfare emergency management
Enhancing public information practice in Tasmania’s emergency services (TFS and
Fighting fires and fatigue
Fire resilience of existing composite steel plate girder bridges
Fragility and resilience of bridge structures subjected to extreme wave-induced
Household decision making in bushfire self evacuation
How risk informs natural hazard management: a study of the interface between ris
Integrated response as a process for enhancing emergency management
Investigation into the behaviour of a U-slab bridge due to flood
Parenting after a disaster - experiences since Black Saturday
Post-disaster housing reconstruction as a means of enhancing disaster resilience
Post-disaster recovery following recent natural hazard events and risk reduction
Precarious places, precarious knowledges: A comparative analysis of disaster ris
Prediction of scour on bridge piers under flood loading
Preparing for the big one: Disaster risk reduction for morbid obesity
Prioritisation strategy for seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete building
Quantifying the seismic and site amplification characteristics of Adelaide'
Savanna fire management, resources, methods and effectiveness
Seismic assessment of reinforced concrete buildings in Australia including the r
Seismic assessment of reinforced concrete walls in Australia
Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions
Sleep and stress in on-call fire and emergency service workers
Sleep restriction across a simulated firefighting deployment: the impact on acut
Spanning boundaries to support effective multi-agency coordination in emergency
Spontaneous volunteers in the emergency management sector
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire
Synthetic damage curves for concrete girder bridges under flood hazard
Teacher-delivered, child participatory disaster resilience education program for
The exposure of emergency service personnel to asbestos
The impact of individual factors and operational organisational resources and de
The impact of leadership development on organisational citizenship behaviour and
The persistent past: flood, fire and migrant memories of natural disasters in Au
The post-disaster city: Urban crisis politics and social change in community led
The roles of pharmacists in disaster health management in natural and anthropoge
The structural response and progressive failure of batten to rafter connections
Towards fire-adaptive communities in Australia
Valuing volunteers: better understanding the primary motives for volunteering in
Volunteered geographic information, community engagement and bushfire preparatio
Web 2.0 in disaster and emergency: a risk assessment of tortious liability
Why do people decide to drive through floodwater? Utilising virtual reality to a
Wind induced internal pressures in industrial buildings
Women caring for Waanyi and Garawa country
Capability needs for emergency & disaster management organisations
Catastrophic and cascading events: planning and capability
Child-centred disaster risk reduction
Community understanding of the tsunami risk and warnings systems in Australian c
Developing effective emergency management partnerships in remote northern Austra
Diversity and inclusion: building strength and capability
Effective risk and warning communication during natural hazards
Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering
Flood risk communication
Hazards, culture and Indigenous communities
Impact-based forecasting for the coastal zone: East Coast Lows
Improving decision-making in complex multi-team environments
Improving the retention and engagement of volunteers in emergency service agenci
Improving the role of hazard communications in increasing residents’ preparednes
Managing animals in disasters: improving preparedness, response, and resilience
National mental health and wellbeing study of police and emergency services
Northern Australian bushfire and natural hazard training
Out of uniform: building community resilience through non-traditional emergency
Recovery Capitals
The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: A system for assessing the res
Analysis of the effects of the January 2020 bushfires on the estuarine systems o
Assessment of post-fire recovery of Pencil Pine forest after the 2016 World Heri
Assessment of post-fire recovery of sub alpine shrublands after the 2019 World H
Informing post-fire recovery planning of northern NSW rainforests
January 2020 NSW bushfires study
NSW March 2021 floods - data collection
Post-fire impact assessment of Tasmanian Sphagnum bogs
Remeasurement of burnt permanent plots in Tasmanian wet eucalypt forest - 2019
Remeasurement of Burnt TERN Ausplots in New South Wales
The potential for coastal dune de-stabilisation following 2015/16 wildfires near
Townsville flood 2019 - post event data collection
A guide to develop bushfire case studies - a case study of cropland fires
Predicting fire danger ratings from physical measures of fire behaviour
Preparing emergency services for operations in a climate-challenged world
Using pre and post fire LiDAR to assess the severity of the 2019 Tasmanian Bushf
Yanchep Black Summer bushfire reconstruction: insights to inform situational aw
Analysis and characterisation of bushfire-meets-prescribed burn Black Summer fir
Assessment and calibration of fuel moisture sensors
Black Summer bushfires: South Australia reconstructions
Black Summer Victorian bushfire case studies
Bushfire climatology in Victoria
Community-led recovery
Conceptual framework to show benefits of compliance
Cropland fire behaviour
Cultural land management
Development of seasonal fire prediction tools
Ecosystem resilience – establishment of collection and analyses for two priority
Effectiveness of resources to supress bushfire: aerial and ground based
Established and emerging uses of predictive services
Fire severity mapping review
Fire severity rating
Identifying planned burn windows
Identifying water sources using satellite imagery
Informing Queensland's bushfire review 2018
Managing scale and uncertainty in fire management planning incorporating growth
Modelling fire weather interactions using the ACCESS-Fire model
Next generation Fuels 3D remote sensing
Planned burn mapping in Victoria using remote sensing
Plume and air quality modelling
Post-Cyclone Marcia fuel assessment
Probability of fire ignition and escalation
Severe fire behaviour - improving planning responses
Soil and fuel moisture precursors of fire activity during the 2019-20 fire seaso
User interface platform for the Victorian historical fire weather gridded datase
Wind speed Reduction Factors (WRF): utilities for WRF assessment and communicati
A multilevel approach to fire severity using remote sensing, environmental facto
An investigation of the dynamics of fire-fire interactions using a coupled fire-
An investigation of the psychosocial factors that influence cyclone mitigation b
Approaches for investigating fire impacts on catchment hydrology
Ardity index as a predictor of the hydrogeomorphic response of burnt landscapes
Changing fire regimes of the Great Sandy Region of south eastern Queensland
Community engagement for disaster risk reduction through embedding DRR values
Developing a flash flood warning system for short duration catchments using rain
Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computationa
Effects of Sydney coastal dry sclerophyll forest litter on fuels and fire behavi
Empirical analysis of spot fire and ember behaviour during extreme fire weather
Fire and heavy metals: when wild and controlled fires transform un-rehabilitated
How do wet eucalypt forests burn? Managing Tasmania’s most dangerous fuel type
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and e
Impact of bushfire on water quality
Impact of fires on temperate rainforests in northern New South Wales
Improving adaptation planning for future sea level rise and coastal flooding
Improving flood forecast skill using remote sensing data (PhD project)
Initiation of biomass smouldering combustion in bushfires
Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Aust
Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extreme
Measuring the social, environmental and economic consequences of bridge failure
Methods for background temperature estimation in the context of active fire dete
Modelling forest fuel temporal change using LiDAR
Models for lightning-caused wildfire ignition
Multi resolution, high temporal fire monitoring and intensity mapping using Hima
Productivity and effectiveness of suppression resources and tactics on large fir
Refinement and validation of the pyrolysis and firebrand transport sub-models fo
Remote sensing applied to bushfire
Remote sensing of fire severity in Australian dry sclerophyll forests
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions
Remote sensing of tree structure and biomass in north Australian mesic savanna
Seismic retrofitting of RC beam-column joints using metallic haunch
Sensitivity of the Empirical Mode Decomposition and its application to environme
Spatially forecasting coupled litter and root moisture dynamics for bushfire man
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applicatio
The 2013 Forcett-Dunalley fire: A geospatial analysis of fire severity, smoke tr
The impacts of catastrophic wildfire on ecological interactions among regenerate
The utility of point clouds to estimate fuel hazards
Through the flames - quantitative analysis of strategic and tactical wildfire su
Towards a comprehensive data assimilation framework for operational hydrodynamic
Understanding spatial patterns of wildfire occurrence in south eastern Australia
Cost-effective mitigation strategy for building related earthquake risk
Cost-effective mitigation strategy for flood prone buildings
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling
Developing better predictions for extreme water levels
Enhancing resilience of critical road infrastructure
Fire coalescence and mass spotfire dynamics
Fire spread prediction across fuel types
Fire surveillance and hazard mapping
From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact
Improving flood forecast skill using remote sensing data
Improving land dryness measures and forecasts
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts
Natural hazard exposure information modelling framework
Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes
Resilience to clustered disaster events on the coast - storm surge
Scenario planning for remote community risk management in northern Australia
Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour
Released
News
Key Topic/s
Project/s
23 Aug 2019
Input on handbooks requested
diversity and inclusion
,
emergency management
,
fire
18 Dec 2017
"What if" questions drive future policy
decision making
,
multi-hazard
,
optimisation
Improved decision support for natural hazard risk reduction
12 Dec 2018
"What if" questions drive future policy
decision making
,
multi-hazard
,
optimisation
Improved decision support for natural hazard risk reduction
01 Mar 2017
'Unofficial' volunteers
communities
,
non-traditional recruitment
,
volunteering
Out of uniform: building community resilience through non-traditional emergency volunteering
20 Dec 2016
2017 is shaping up as busy – dates for your diary
07 Feb 2017
7 February – lessons from two historic fires
communities
,
fire
,
fire impacts
14 Dec 2015
A busy 12 months
23 Jan 2015
A century of natural hazards - what are the costs?
economics
,
multi-hazard
,
risk analysis
An analysis of building losses and human fatalities from natural disasters
18 Dec 2017
A child-centred view of disaster education
child-centred
,
education
,
resilience
Child-centred disaster risk reduction
02 Apr 2019
A combined plan to face the hazards
emergency management
,
land management
,
multi-hazard
12 Feb 2019
A decade of advancements on fire weather
emergency management
,
fire impacts
,
fire weather
Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling
11 Dec 2013
A full Board
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