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
23 May 2016	The RAF, the future and outreach	Blog		emergency management, land management
06 Dec 2019	12 simple ways you can reduce bushfire risk to older homes	Blog		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
20 Dec 2017	Thank you for the hard work and activity	Blog		emergency management, land management, multi-hazard
09 Jan 2016	Research must advance to keep us safe from natural hazards	Blog		communication, communities, emergency management
18 Feb 2019	To build or not build: that is the Townsville question	Blog		decision making, emergency management, multi-hazard
27 Nov 2017	Demonstrating impact vital	Blog		emergency management, land management, multi-hazard
14 Jan 2021	Driving Change – the place that starts at the end of the journey	Blog		emergency management, multi-hazard
07 Nov 2019	The evolution of diversity and inclusion as a business imperative for emergency services	Blog		diversity and inclusion, emergency management
25 Jul 2017	Halfway to delivering to the country	Blog		emergency management, mitigation, multi-hazard
03 Sep 2019	Grim fire season looms but many Australians remain unprepared	Blog		communication, emergency management, fire impacts
16 Mar 2016	Working on-call? You can help with my research	Blog		capability, decision making, emergency management
14 May 2019	Becoming fire-fit: preparing for the unexpected and unimagined	Blog		communities, emergency management, resilience
17 Dec 2018	Building momentum for what comes next	Blog		emergency management, resilience, risk management
21 Jul 2016	Common thoughts, common issues	Blog		emergency management, policy
18 Aug 2020	Towards a new disaster research centre	Blog		emergency management, fire, multi-hazard
11 Dec 2015	Word from the disaster supermarket	Blog		communication, emergency management
	Experiences of Police and Emergency Services Employees with Workers’ Compensation Claims for Mental Health Issues	Biblio		emergency management, mental health, organisational
	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
	Model for assessing the vulnerability of Australian housing to windstorms - VAWS	Biblio	save (7.38 MB)	cyclone, emergency management, severe weather
	Transformative scenarios in a climate challenged world - emergency management sector case studies as worked examples	Biblio	save (3.07 MB)	climate change, emergency management, governance
	A comparison of the discrete cosine and wavelet transforms for hydrologic model input data reduction	Biblio		emergency management, flood
	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
	Social media in emergencies: An examination of government accountability for risk communication and warning	Biblio	save (2.73 MB)	emergency management, policy, risk management
	Managing cognitive biases during disaster response: the development of an aide memoire	Biblio		emergency management, optimisation, organisational
	Volunteering research in Australia: A narrative review	Biblio		diversity and inclusion, emergency management, volunteering
	Improved predictions of extreme sea levels around Australia	Biblio	save (3.75 MB)	emergency management, risk management, storm surge
	How emergency services organisations can – and do – utilise research	Biblio		communication, decision making, emergency management
	Self-evacuation archetypes in Australian bushfire	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts - annual report 2018-2019	Biblio		emergency management, fire, land management
	Identifying lessons from exercising and training for emergency management decision-making	Biblio	save (731.34 KB)	capability, decision making, emergency management
	Utilisation funding: South Australia stretch thinking project	Biblio	save (944.59 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
	Leadership in crisis: developing beyond command and control	Biblio	save (350.71 KB)	communication, decision making, emergency management
	Flood vulnerability functions: detailed vs generalised approach	Biblio	save (1.65 MB)	emergency management, flood, modelling
	Enhancing learning in emergency services organisational work	Biblio		capability, decision making, emergency management
	Evaluation of pre-intervention data: divergent thinking and brain plasticity	Biblio	save (526.36 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
	Are fire brigades liable for poor decisions?	Biblio		emergency management, governance, response
	Discovering Future Disaster Management Capability Needs Using Scenario Planning Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (721.06 KB)	capability, emergency management, infrastructure
	A review of emergency and fire management training available for remote communities in northern Australia based on the views of local inhabitants	Biblio	save (1.47 MB)	emergency management, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
	Economics of Natural Hazards Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	emergency management, environments, multi-hazard