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
A characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme events in southeast Australia: Stage 1 – common features of recent events	Biblio	save (21.94 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, severe weather
Influence of road characteristics on flood fatalities in Australia	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	emergency management, flood, preparedness
Rhetoric or reality: Coordination in a time of crisis	Biblio	save (307.35 KB)	decision making, emergency management, governance
The potential role of the commonwealth in responding to catastrophic disasters	Biblio	save (6.84 MB)	emergency management, risk analysis
The interaction between firefighting boot design and lower body injury risk at work	Biblio	save (587.38 KB)	emergency management, optimisation, volunteering
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
Transformative scenarios in a climate challenged world - a guide for using scenarios in the emergency management sector	Biblio	save (2.92 MB)	climate change, emergency management, governance
An assessment of the opportunities to improve strategic decision-making in emergency and disaster management	Biblio	save (259.81 KB)	decision making, emergency management, response
Public health and natural hazards: new policies and preparedness initiatives developed from an Australian bushfire case study	Biblio	save (84.72 KB)	emergency management, mental health, resilience
Hydrologic model calibration using remotely sensed soil moisture and discharge measurements: The impact on predictions at gauged and ungauged locations	Biblio		emergency management, flood, hydrology
Spanning boundaries to support effective multi-agency coordination in emergency management	Biblio	save (2.38 MB)	capability, emergency management, framework
A Review of Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster Management	Biblio		communication, emergency management, volunteering
Seismic assessment of reinforced concrete walls in Australia	Biblio		earthquake, emergency management, resilience
Research proceedings from the 2016 Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and AFAC conference	Biblio	save (3.51 MB)	emergency management, land management, multi-hazard
Planning and capability requirements for catastrophic and cascading disasters - final project report	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	capability, emergency management, multi-hazard
Disaster management: building resilient systems to aid recovery - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (526.07 KB)	emergency management, resilience
Diversity and inclusion: Building strength and capability	Biblio	save (511.1 KB)	capability, diversity and inclusion, emergency management
Models and frameworks for assessing the value of disaster research	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	economics, emergency management, resilience
Building adaptive capacities for disaster resilience: what role for government?	Biblio	save (490.2 KB)	emergency management, governance, policy
Final report on vulnerability of as-built and retrofitted URM buildings	Biblio	save (1.13 MB)	earthquake, emergency management
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events - annual report 2018-19	Biblio	save (1.85 MB)	cyclone, emergency management, engineering
No ordinary call: factors predicting fire communication officers' job strain and well-being	Biblio	save (978.68 KB)	capability, emergency management, resilience
Established and emerging uses of predictive services	Project		emergency management, fire, firefighter
Long-term solutions to improve emergency management services in remote communities in northern Australia	Biblio		communities, emergency management, Northern Australia
Resolving future fire management conflicts using multi-criteria decision making	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
Intelligent warnings: a twenty-first century approach to encouraging protective action in emergencies	Biblio	save (993.19 KB)	communities, emergency management, warnings
Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation	Biblio		emergency management, environments, risk management
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Professionalism: certification for emergency management leaders	Biblio	save (251.72 KB)	capability, emergency management, organisational
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Biblio	save (19.97 MB)	emergency management, engineering, vulnerability
Overcoming Ambiguity: Conflict Between Emergency Warning Messages and Socio-Environmental Cues	Biblio		communication, emergency management, warnings
The lived experience of disadvantaged communities affected by the 2015 South Indian Floods: Implications for disaster risk reduction dialogue	Biblio		communities, emergency management, vulnerability
Bushfire and natural hazard training for Northern Australia: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (742.18 KB)	emergency management, multi-hazard, response
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational learning in emergency management: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	capability, decision making, emergency management
Large damage bills to buildings from cyclones can be reduced by small actions	Biblio	save (507.42 KB)	cyclone, emergency management, resilience
Cost-Effective Mitigation Strategy Development for Building Related Earthquake Risk Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (3.04 MB)	earthquake, emergency management, mitigation
Emergency volunteering 2030: Views from the community sector	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	emergency management, volunteering
Animal emergency management in South Australia: a case study of the Sampson Flat bushfire	Biblio		animals, communities, emergency management
Preparing emergency services for operations in a climate-challenged world	Project		climate change, emergency management, governance