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
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Biblio	save (19.97 MB)	emergency management, engineering, vulnerability
The lived experience of disadvantaged communities affected by the 2015 South Indian Floods: Implications for disaster risk reduction dialogue	Biblio		communities, emergency management, vulnerability
How can business share responsibility for disaster resilience?	Biblio	save (649.4 KB)	emergency management, resilience
Values and complexities in assessing strategic-level emergency management effectiveness	Biblio		capability, emergency management, response
Increasing emergency management capacity through business sector involvement	Biblio	save (503.1 KB)	emergency management, land management, risk 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
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
Managing animals in disasters: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (1017.25 KB)	animals, emergency management, vulnerability
Opportunities and constraints identified in existing frameworks in use for organisational learning	Biblio	save (1.31 MB)	emergency management, organisational
Enhancing team performance	Biblio	save (501.37 KB)	capability, decision making, emergency management
Community strategy development for reducing earthquake risk in Western Australia	Biblio	save (765.35 KB)	earthquake, emergency management, risk analysis
Learning to learn from bushfire: Perspectives from Victorian emergency management practitioners	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
Risky business: Why diversity and inclusion matter	Biblio	save (2.31 MB)	diversity and inclusion, emergency management
Community organisation involvement in disaster management	Biblio	save (1.76 MB)	communities, emergency management, multi-hazard
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
Prevalence and predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviours among Australian police and emergency services employees	Biblio		emergency management, mental health, organisational
Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for building related earthquake risk: progress report on economic loss modelling	Biblio	save (1.16 MB)	decision making, earthquake, emergency management
The value of research from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	economics, emergency management
Safety awareness of firefighters and their perception of fire risks in cladding fires	Biblio	save (2.08 MB)	emergency management, fire impacts, firefighter
Assessing community resilience for emergencies in local government policy - Maroondah City Council and Knox City Council	Biblio	save (1.64 MB)	communication, emergency management, resilience
Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Asymmetrical Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Australia	Biblio		earthquake, emergency management, mitigation
The value of disaster research: a review of the literature	Biblio	save (1.16 MB)	economics, emergency management
Nonprofit and public sector interorganizational collaboration in disaster recovery: Lessons from the field	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, organisational
Applying unharmed for risk reduction planning – comparing strategies and long-term effectiveness	Biblio	save (1.51 MB)	emergency management, mitigation, response
Volunteering research in Australia: A narrative review	Biblio		diversity and inclusion, emergency management, volunteering
Supplementing emergency warning messages to encourage readiness to act: the effect of colours and icons	Biblio	save (3.07 MB)	communication, emergency management, warnings
Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement	Biblio		communication, education, emergency management
Planning and capability requirements for catastrophic and cascading events	Biblio	save (659.92 KB)	capability, emergency management, planning
My grab bag is two suitcases: an autoethnographical view of a super-plus size self-evacuation from Hurricane Irma	Biblio		diversity and inclusion, emergency management, vulnerability
Self-evacuation archetypes in Australian bushfire	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Social media in emergencies: An examination of government accountability for risk communication and warning	Biblio	save (2.73 MB)	emergency management, policy, risk management
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
Rhetoric or reality: Coordination in a time of crisis	Biblio	save (307.35 KB)	decision making, emergency management, governance
Community benefits of roof upgrades	Biblio	save (8.24 MB)	cyclone, emergency management, severe weather
Animal Welfare and Disasters	Biblio		animals, emergency management, resilience
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
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
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
Using the human centred design method to develop tools for non-technical skills in emergency management	Biblio	save (666.71 KB)	communities, decision making, emergency management
Enhancing learning in emergency services organisational work	Biblio		capability, decision making, emergency management