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 study on the key design factors that improve the experience of the elderly in temporary emergency shelter and village facilities	Project		emergency management, vulnerability
Experiences in the in-field utilisation of fuels3D	Biblio	save (601.76 KB)	emergency management, fire, fuel reduction
Progress report on costing of limited ductile reinforced concrete buildings	Biblio	save (578.13 KB)	earthquake, emergency management, engineering
A theoretical framework for negotiating the path of emergency management multi-agency coordination	Biblio		emergency management, fire
The Hawaii nuclear alert: how did people respond?	Biblio	save (537.88 KB)	emergency management, response, warnings
Collapse behaviour of limited ductile high-strength RC columns under multidirectional earthquake actions	Biblio		emergency management, engineering, infrastructure
Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering: annual report 2018-19	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	emergency management, volunteering
Animal Emergency Management in Australia	Biblio	save (3.13 MB)	animals, emergency management
Spanning boundaries to support effective multi-agency coordination in emergency management	Project		capability, emergency management, framework
Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of recommendations	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
Demographic profiling: Queensland floods 2010-11 Brisbane River catchment area case study	Biblio	save (1.28 MB)	emergency management, flood, risk analysis
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
Where do we put our dollars? Economic analysis of different bushfire management options in Western Australia	Biblio	save (391.13 KB)	economics, emergency management, fire
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational performance: Part One Executive Summary	Biblio	save (938.06 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Collaboration in disasters: A cultural challenge for the utilities sector	Biblio		communication, emergency management
Follow up of study participants: brain plasticity and divergent thinking	Biblio	save (781.71 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Improving Fire Behaviour Data Obtained from Wildfires	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
Ecosystem resilience - technological advances to increases efficiency of ecosystem resilience monitoring	Project		emergency management, modelling, resilience
Assessing community resilience for emergencies in local government policy: summary	Biblio	save (461.41 KB)	communication, emergency management, resilience
Evidence to support incident management team capability	Biblio	save (146.37 KB)	communication, emergency management, multi-hazard
State Emergency Service volunteer views on expectations, experiences and motivations	Biblio	save (768.9 KB)	emergency management, volunteering
Public information in the emergency services - literature review	Biblio	save (788.53 KB)	communication, emergency management
What human capacity demands should inform the development and appointment of an emergency manager?	Project		communication, emergency management
Staying on task: a tool to help state and regional-level emergency management teams	Biblio	save (264.75 KB)	decision making, emergency management, organisational
Valuing volunteers: better understanding the primary motives for volunteering in Australian emergency services	Biblio	save (1.86 MB)	communities, emergency management, volunteering
Urban Search and Rescue Operations in Tropical Climates Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (579.21 KB)	emergency management, Northern Australia, response
Improved predictions of extreme sea levels around Australia	Biblio	save (3.75 MB)	emergency management, risk management, storm surge
Townsville flood 2019 - post event data collection	Project		emergency management, flood, warnings
How emergency services organisations can – and do – utilise research	Biblio		communication, decision making, emergency management
Do disasters predict international pharmacy legislation?	Biblio		emergency management, governance, response
The southwest Tasmania fires of summer 2018-2019 - a post event review capability study	Biblio	save (9.33 MB)	capability, economics, emergency management
Implementing research to support disaster risk reduction	Biblio	save (277.04 KB)	communities, emergency management, risk management
Developing leadership to retain volunteers in emergency service organisations	Project		emergency management, volunteering
What's wrong and what needs fixing? Stakeholder perspectives on making the future of emergency volunteering	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	capability, emergency management, volunteering
Addressing challenges for future strategic-level emergency management: reframing, networking and capacity building	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
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
Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
The impact of individual factors and operational organisational resources and demands on mental health outcomes	Project		emergency management, resilience, risk management
Characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme events in south east Australia and Tasmania	Project		emergency management, severe weather