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.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events - annual report 2018-19	Biblio	save (1.85 MB)	cyclone, emergency management, engineering
	Salivary cortisol profiles of on-call from home fire and emergency service personnel	Biblio		emergency management, mental health
	Intelligent warnings: a twenty-first century approach to encouraging protective action in emergencies	Biblio	save (993.19 KB)	communities, emergency management, warnings
	Stretch‐Thinking Loops: A New Technique for Scenario Planning	Biblio		emergency management, organisational, scenario analysis
	Analytical Simulation of Limited Ductile RC Beam-Columns	Biblio		earthquake, emergency management, mitigation
	Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
	Non‐technical skills for emergency incident management teams: A literature review	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, organisational
	A lidar-derived fuel map for the ACT	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, fuel reduction
	Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Biblio	save (19.97 MB)	emergency management, engineering, vulnerability
	Optimising post-disaster recovery interventions in Australia: annual project report 2018-19	Biblio	save (790.52 KB)	emergency management, optimisation, risk management
	How can business share responsibility for disaster resilience?	Biblio	save (649.4 KB)	emergency management, resilience
	Diversity and inclusion: towards a better understanding of management and measurement - policy paper	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	capability, diversity and inclusion, emergency management
	Enhancing team performance	Biblio	save (501.37 KB)	capability, decision making, emergency management
	Increasing emergency management capacity through business sector involvement	Biblio	save (503.1 KB)	emergency management, land management, risk management
	Collaboration in disasters: A cultural challenge for the utilities sector	Biblio		communication, emergency management
	Breakdowns in coordinated decision making at and above the incident management team level: An analysis of three large scale Australian wildfires	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
	Public information in the emergency services - literature review	Biblio	save (788.53 KB)	communication, emergency management
	Using realistic disaster scenario analysis to understand natural hazard impacts and emergency management requirements: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (671.08 KB)	emergency management, multi-hazard, scenario analysis
	Values and complexities in assessing strategic-level emergency management effectiveness	Biblio		capability, emergency management, response
	Opportunities and constraints identified in existing frameworks in use for organisational learning	Biblio	save (1.31 MB)	emergency management, organisational
	Improving decision making, teamwork and organisational learning in emergency management – final project report	Biblio	save (2.96 MB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
	Community strategy development for reducing earthquake risk in Western Australia	Biblio	save (765.35 KB)	earthquake, emergency management, risk analysis
	Managing animals in disasters: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (1017.25 KB)	animals, emergency management, vulnerability
	Using realistic disaster scenario analysis to understand natural hazard impacts and emergency management requirements: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (824.12 KB)	emergency management, multi-hazard, scenario analysis
	Prevalence and predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviours among Australian police and emergency services employees	Biblio		emergency management, mental health, organisational
13 Feb 2017	Community at the top of the list all over the world	Blog		emergency management, land management, prescribed burning
19 Mar 2019	A model for highly valued research	Blog		emergency management, land management, multi-hazard
14 Jan 2016	Wanted: home for research. Reward: community resilience	Blog		emergency management, resilience
20 May 2016	Networking, connections and career opportunities	Blog		emergency management
15 Jan 2015	Natural hazards—a wicked problem	Blog		emergency management, multi-hazard, risk management
10 Sep 2019	Assessing the value of disaster research	Blog		economics, emergency management
18 Nov 2019	Disaster database developed	Blog		decision making, emergency management, guidelines
21 Jul 2016	Three years on and the view turns to research use	Blog		emergency management, land management
20 Dec 2018	Providing useful benefits in 2018 and beyond	Blog		emergency management, mental health, multi-hazard
25 Feb 2021	Indigenous expertise is reducing bushfires in northern Australia. It’s time to consider similar approaches for other disasters	Blog		emergency management, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
19 May 2016	Charting pathways at a critical point	Blog		emergency management, governance, policy
23 Aug 2019	Our new global plant water status database may prevent you from needing to fieldwork. What will you miss?	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire severity
30 Jan 2020	Rebuilding from the ashes of disaster: this is what Australia can learn from India	Blog		emergency management, recovery, response
08 Jan 2020	‘I can still picture the faces’: Black Saturday firefighters want you to listen to them, not call them ‘heroes’	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
15 Mar 2016	Communities of interest	Blog		communication, emergency management, fire