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
Challenges of Measuring Emergency Management Performance Under Adversity: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (594.66 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Follow up of study participants: brain plasticity and divergent thinking	Biblio	save (781.71 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Ecosystem resilience - technological advances to increases efficiency of ecosystem resilience monitoring	Project		emergency management, modelling, resilience
Improving Fire Behaviour Data Obtained from Wildfires	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
Assessing community resilience for emergencies in local government policy: summary	Biblio	save (461.41 KB)	communication, emergency management, resilience
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
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
Values and complexities in assessing strategic-level emergency management effectiveness	Biblio		capability, emergency management, response
Discussion paper: Learning for emergency services, looking for a new approach	Biblio	save (2.34 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
What human capacity demands should inform the development and appointment of an emergency manager?	Project		communication, emergency management
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
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
Assessing the application and value of participatory mapping for community bushfire preparation	Biblio		communities, emergency management, local knowledge
The Hawaii nuclear alert: how did people respond?	Biblio	save (537.88 KB)	emergency management, response, warnings
Risky business: Why diversity and inclusion matter	Biblio	save (2.31 MB)	diversity and inclusion, emergency management
Collapse behaviour of limited ductile high-strength RC columns under multidirectional earthquake actions	Biblio		emergency management, engineering, infrastructure
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
SES fit for task	Project		emergency management, recruitment, 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
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
No Ordinary Moments: Improving the response to disasters by enhancing the Incident Command System (ICS)	Project		communication, emergency management
A comparison of the discrete cosine and wavelet transforms for hydrologic model input data reduction	Biblio		emergency management, flood
Social media in emergencies: An examination of government accountability for risk communication and warning	Biblio	save (2.73 MB)	emergency management, policy, risk management
Enhancing public information practice in Tasmania’s emergency services (TFS and SES)	Project		communities, emergency management
Volunteering research in Australia: A narrative review	Biblio		diversity and inclusion, emergency management, volunteering
Staying on task: a tool to help state and regional-level emergency management teams	Biblio	save (264.75 KB)	decision making, emergency management, organisational
Improved predictions of extreme sea levels around Australia	Biblio	save (3.75 MB)	emergency management, risk management, storm surge
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
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
Identifying lessons from exercising and training for emergency management decision-making	Biblio	save (731.34 KB)	capability, decision making, emergency management
Flash flood fatalities in NSW, VIC, ACT and South East QLD from 1 January 2000 to 30 June 2017	Biblio	save (1.59 MB)	emergency management, flood, risk management
Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for fuel reduction, carbon, water and vegetation outcomes	Biblio	save (791.2 KB)	emergency management, fuel reduction, land 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
Leadership in crisis: developing beyond command and control	Biblio	save (350.71 KB)	communication, decision making, emergency management
Discovering Future Disaster Management Capability Needs Using Scenario Planning Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (721.06 KB)	capability, emergency management, infrastructure