Key topics

communities

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

Item	Type		Key Topics
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
Post-disaster recovery following recent natural hazard events and risk reduction measures in Australia and Japan	Project		communities, governance, recovery
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community risk	Biblio	save (5.46 MB)	communities, modelling, severe weather
Utilisation of fire spread simulators to assess power network fire risk	Biblio	save (1.51 MB)	communities, modelling, warnings
A Culture of Burning: Social-Ecological Memory, Social Learning and Adaptation in Australian Volunteer Fire Brigades	Biblio		communities, prescribed burning, resilience
Enhancing public information practice in Tasmania’s emergency services (TFS and SES)	Project		communities, emergency management
Building Resilient Remote Communities in Northern Australia Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (732.25 KB)	communities, indigenous communities, local knowledge
Children in the 2015 South Indian floods: community members’ views	Biblio		child-centred, communities, flood
Exploring the experiences of those who shelter in place during severe flooding	Biblio	save (6.08 MB)	communities, decision making, flood
Bushfire survival preparations by householders in at-risk areas of south-eastern Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, planning
Predicting risk-mitigating behaviors from indecisiveness and trait-anxiety: two cognitive pathways to task avoidance	Biblio		communication, communities, preparedness
Reimagining program monitoring and evaluation for disaster resilience outcomes	Biblio	save (981.44 KB)	communities, resilience, risk management
Community adaptation to cope with disaster related road structure failure	Biblio	save (399.28 KB)	communities, multi-hazard, resilience
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
Using environmental criminology theories to compare ‘youth misuse of fire’ across age groups in New South Wales	Biblio		communities, fire
Predicting delay in residents’ decisions on defending v. evacuating through antecedents of decision avoidance	Biblio		communication, communities, preparedness
Evidence-based risk communication: an industry-academic research collaboration that enhanced dam release message effectiveness	Biblio	save (365.96 KB)	communication, communities, warnings
Understanding experiences and recovery capabilities of diverse communities in Gippsland post 2019/20 bushfires	Project		capability, communities, recovery
Mapping approaches to community engagement for preparedness in Australia - final report	Biblio	save (2.98 MB)	communities, multi-hazard, preparedness
Barriers and enablers in the long term recovery of communities affected by natural hazards: a review of the literature	Biblio	save (1.06 MB)	communities, emergency management, recovery
Contacts versus connectors: The role of Community Fire Safe Group coordinators in achieving positive bushfire safety outcomes	Biblio		communication, communities, warnings
Social Media, Crisis Communication and Community-led Response and Recovery: An Australian Case Study Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (532.41 KB)	communication, communities
Reviving people’s trust in Bamboo technology: A case-study of Orlaha settlement reconstruction in Bihar, after the 2008 Kosi floods	Biblio		communities, recovery, resilience
Surviving bushfire: the role of shelters and sheltering practices during the Black Saturday bushfires	Biblio		communities, decision making, fire
Capturing community experiences: South Australian bushfires January 2014	Biblio	save (8.35 MB)	communication, communities, decision making
Recognising and measuring competency in natural hazard preparation: A preparedness competency index	Biblio		communities, preparedness, response
Dynamic smoke modelling and community impact of smoke	Project		communities, fire impacts
Assessing the potential, application, and implications of volunteered geographic information in disaster risk reduction	Biblio	save (7.27 MB)	communities, local knowledge, volunteering
Psychological differences between south-eastern Australian householders' who intend to leave if threatened by a wildfire and those who intend to stay and defend	Biblio		communication, communities, warnings
Perceptions of risk and connection to landscape	Biblio		communities, fire, risk management
Get ready NSW- fostering all hazards resilience in local communities	Biblio	save (667.19 KB)	communities, emergency management, resilience
Homelessness and severe storms: a case study of the June 2016 East Coast Low	Project		communities, flood, severe weather
Volunteered geographic information, community engagement and bushfire preparation	Project		communities, local knowledge, volunteering
Community organisation involvement in disaster management	Biblio	save (1.76 MB)	communities, emergency management, multi-hazard
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (816.16 KB)	communities, forecasting, severe weather
Business involvement in natural disasters in Australia and New Zealand	Biblio	save (1.87 MB)	capability, communities, recovery
Literature review on community resilience in remote north Australia	Biblio	save (1.41 MB)	communities, Northern Australia, resilience
Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (1.31 MB)	communities, volunteering