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
Effective Representation of River Geometry in Hydraulic Flood Forecast Models	Biblio	save (1.75 MB)	emergency management, flood, risk management
Human error during the multilevel responses to three Australian bushfire disasters	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, fire
Vehicle‐related flood fatalities in Australia, 2001–2017	Biblio	save (2.97 MB)	emergency management, flood, warnings
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
A formative evaluation of the Triple Zero Kids’ Challenge Teacher’s Guide	Biblio		child-centred, communication, emergency management
Development of Capability Targets for the NSW Emergency Management Sector	Biblio	save (973.32 KB)	capability, emergency management
Identifying and resolving coordinated decision making breakdowns in emergency management	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
Ten years on from the Victorian Black Saturday bushfires - public information during response	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	communication, emergency management
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Biblio	save (19.97 MB)	emergency management, engineering, vulnerability
Get ready NSW- fostering all hazards resilience in local communities	Biblio	save (667.19 KB)	communities, emergency management, resilience
Using discrete event simulation cellular automata models to determine multi-mode travel times and routes of terrestrial suppression resources to wildland fires	Biblio		emergency management, fire
Learning for emergency services: looking for a new approach	Biblio	save (1.91 MB)	emergency management, governance, policy
Emergency Volunteering 2030: Views from Managers in Volunteerism	Biblio	save (1.89 MB)	emergency management, volunteering
We have not lived long enough: Sensemaking and learning from bushfire in Australia	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
A modified Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia (2015) scenario: wind and storm tide hazards and impacts	Biblio	save (1.64 MB)	emergency management, modelling, scenario analysis
Prevalence and predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviours among Australian police and emergency services employees	Biblio		emergency management, mental health, organisational
Assessing the application and value of participatory mapping for community bushfire preparation	Biblio		communities, emergency management, local knowledge
Principles for enhanced collaboration between land and emergency management agencies and Indigenous peoples - green paper	Biblio	save (1.61 MB)	emergency management, indigenous communities, land management
Increasing emergency management capacity through business sector involvement	Biblio	save (503.1 KB)	emergency management, land management, risk management
Vulnerability of buildings and civil infrastructure to tropical cyclones: A preliminary review of modelling approaches and literature	Biblio	save (1.74 MB)	emergency management, modelling, scenario analysis
Follow up of study participants: brain plasticity and divergent thinking	Biblio	save (781.71 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, multi-hazard
Assessing community resilience for emergencies in local government policy: summary	Biblio	save (461.41 KB)	communication, emergency management, resilience
The effect of working on-call from home on salivary cortisol in fire and emergency service personnel	Biblio		capability, emergency management, optimisation
Prioritisation strategy for seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete buildings in Australia	Project		emergency management, engineering
Research proceedings from the 2018 Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and AFAC Conference	Biblio	save (15.24 MB)	emergency management, land management, multi-hazard
Challenges of Measuring Emergency Management Performance Under Adversity: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (594.66 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Australian householders’ psychological preparedness for potential natural hazard threats: An exploration of contributing factors	Biblio		communities, emergency management, fire
Opportunities and constraints identified in existing frameworks in use for organisational learning	Biblio	save (1.31 MB)	emergency management, organisational
Advances in the remote sensing of active fires: a review	Biblio	save (1.79 MB)	emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project		emergency management, fire, volunteering
Real people, real stories- if it’s flooded forget it	Biblio	save (767.2 KB)	communities, emergency management, flood
The roles of pharmacists in disaster health management in natural and anthropogenic disasters	Biblio	save (13.99 MB)	communication, emergency management
Discussion paper: Learning for emergency services, looking for a new approach	Biblio	save (2.34 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
Can major post-event inquiries and reviews contribute to lessons management?	Biblio		communication, emergency management
Collapse behaviour of limited ductile high-strength RC columns under multidirectional earthquake actions	Biblio		emergency management, engineering, infrastructure
The southwest Tasmania fires of summer 2018-2019 - a post event review capability study	Biblio	save (9.33 MB)	capability, economics, emergency management
The challenges of managing animals and their owners in disasters: perspectives of Australian response organisations and stakeholders	Biblio	save (411.01 KB)	animals, communication, emergency management
The value of research from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	economics, emergency management
From research outcome to agency change: mapping a learning trajectory of opportunities and challenges	Biblio	save (421.2 KB)	decision making, emergency management, policy