Resilience to Hazards
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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 |
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Catastrophic and cascading events: planning and capability |
Andrew Gissing | Risk Frontiers |
Diversity and inclusion: building strength and capability |
Celeste Young | Victoria University |
Capability needs for emergency & disaster management organisations |
Dr Paul Barnes | Queensland University of Technology |
Impact-based forecasting for the coastal zone: East Coast Lows |
Dr Harald Richter | Bureau of Meteorology |
Improving decision-making in complex multi-team environments |
A/Prof Chris Bearman | CQUniversity |
National mental health and wellbeing study of police and emergency services |
Prof David Lawrence | University of Western Australia |
Project | Research leader | Affiliation |
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Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering |
Dr Blythe McLennan | RMIT University |
Out of uniform: building community resilience through non-traditional emergency volunteering |
Prof John Handmer | RMIT University |
Improving the retention and engagement of volunteers in emergency service agencies |
A/Prof Michael Jones | University of Wollongong |
Project | Research leader | Affiliation |
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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 |
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 |
Recovery Capitals |
Prof Lisa Gibbs | University of Melbourne |
Hazards, culture and Indigenous communities |
Dr Jessica Weir | Western Sydney University |
Projects by cluster
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