Graeme Riddell

Dr Graeme Riddell

Completed PhD student
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Dr Graeme Riddell

Dr Graeme Riddell’s PhD focused on incorporating uncertainty and complexity into disaster risk management and assessment. This is achieved by integrating foresight principles into disaster risk management to explore emergent risks. The research has produced specific approaches of how this can be achieved and describes and demonstrates this across case-study applications throughout Australia. There are also particular examples of how scenarios and scenario planning can be used for risk assessment and management and how they should be designed and modelled for greatest impact.

Alongside his PhD study, Graeme was involved with multiple CRC projects, conducting research as part of the Improved decision support for natural hazards risk reduction and Urban planning for natural hazard mitigation projects. Graeme was also one of the developers of the Unified Natural Hazard Risk Mitigation Exploratory Decision support system (UNHaRMED). The UNHaRMED scenario risk modelling tool helps government, planning authorities and emergency service agencies think through the costs and consequences of various options on preparing for major disasters on their urban infrastructure and natural environments. Importantly, it also allows future changes to be considered, giving a complete picture on the impact of certain polices and land use management decisions. This work is informing decision making in South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia, and has been highlighted by the Investor Group on Climate Change as a key tool to help navigate future climate risk. Graeme was also part of the research team that received the CRC’s 2017 Outstanding Achievement in Research award.

Graeme has been a regular speaker at conferences, including the CRC’s Research Forum and AFAC conferences in 2017, 2018 and 2019, as well as Adaptation Futures, European Geophysical Union, International Wildland Fire and Fuels Conference, and the International Disaster and Risk Conference. Graeme is now the Research Manager in Emerging Risks at Marsh McLennan, based in Singapore.

Student project

This PhD focused on incorporating uncertainty and complexity into disaster risk management and assessment. This was achieved by integrating foresight principles into disaster risk management to explore emergent risks. The research has produced specific approaches of how this can be achieved and describes and demonstrates this across case-study applications throughout Australia. There are also particular examples of how scenarios and scenario planning can be used for risk assessment and management and how they should be designed and modelled for greatest impact.
Supervisory panel:
31 Aug 2020
Key findings: A flexible approach to understanding and planning risk reduction for different...
AFAC19 poster
27 Aug 2019
Urban Planning systems have considerable potential: to modify the impacts of natural hazards upon...
27 Aug 2019
TWO DRIVING PRINCIPLESPrevention is better than cure - “Better to build a fence at the top of a...
Integrated Urban Planning for Natural Hazard Mitigation
18 Sep 2018
Urban Planning – UP systems have considerable potential to modify the impacts of natural hazards...
Tomorrow’s disasters - foresight principles, risk assessment and treatment
29 Jun 2017
When plans have an over-reliance on what happened in the past, the risk is that one misses the...
UNHaRMED: Unified Natural Hazard Risk Mitigation Exploratory Decision Support System
29 Jun 2017
UNHaRMED is a spatial decision support system (DSS) for planners and policy makers to assist in the...
Hedwig van Delden Conference Poster 2016
12 Aug 2016
We have developed a decision support system with potential to transform planning for risk reduction...
Graeme Riddell Conference Poster 2016
12 Aug 2016
Risk is a complex combination of hazards, exposure and vulnerability.
Including Land Value in Hazard Mitigation Planning
18 Aug 2015
Land use policies hold the greatest long-term risk reduction potential but are under-utilised.

Resources credited

Type Released Title Download Key Topics
HazardNoteEdition 04 Dec 2020 Improving risk mitigation through better scenario modelling: a coastal inundation case study PDF icon Save (823.94 KB) exposure, flood, mitigation
Presentation-Slideshow 27 Aug 2019 Future risk framework: Understanding tomorrow’s risk and what we can do to reduce it PDF icon Save (2.88 MB) decision making, multi-hazard
Presentation-Slideshow 27 Aug 2019 The mitigation exercise: A long term mitigation planning process, with a coastal flooding case study in Adelaide PDF icon Save (4.36 MB) mitigation, multi-hazard
Presentation-Slideshow 26 Nov 2018 Improved decision support for natural hazard mitigation PDF icon Save (1.53 MB) decision making, preparedness
Presentation-Slideshow 18 Sep 2018 Applying UNHaRMED for risk reduction planning – Comparing strategies and long-term effectiveness. PDF icon Save (4.44 MB) mitigation, planning
Presentation-Slideshow 17 Apr 2018 Decision Support System for Assessment of Policy and Planning Investment Options PDF icon Save (3.1 MB) decision making, emergency management, mitigation
Presentation-Slideshow 07 Jul 2017 Understanding the value and challenges of risk mitigation PDF icon Save (4.17 MB) economics, mitigation, resilience
HazardNoteEdition 25 May 2017 Planning for the future: prioritising mitigation options and improving risk reduction PDF icon Save (262.21 KB) decision making, economics, mitigation
HazardNoteEdition 15 Dec 2016 What can economics offer emergency services? PDF icon Save (891.78 KB) decision making, economics, policy
Presentation-Slideshow 30 Aug 2016 A spatial decision support system for natural hazard risk reduction policy assessment and planning - Holger Maier PDF icon Save (5.83 MB) decision making, economics, mitigation
10 Aug 2016 Graeme Riddell - 2016 Progress Report PDF icon Save (77.22 KB) decision making
Presentation-Slideshow 17 May 2016 Spatial decision support system for natural hazard risk reduction policy assessment and planning PDF icon Save (15.12 MB) decision making, planning, policy
Presentation-Slideshow 11 Sep 2015 Natural Hazard Decision Support System PDF icon Save (3.3 MB) decision making
Presentation-Slideshow 10 Apr 2015 Natural Hazard Decision Support System 2015 NSW RAF Presentation PDF icon Save (3.28 MB) decision making, planning, policy

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