Key topics

mitigation

Mitigation is the action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

Date	Item	Type	Key Topics
	Cost-effective mitigation strategy for flood prone buildings	Project	engineering, flood, mitigation
	Improved approaches to natural hazard disaster risk reduction	Project	decision making, mitigation, planning
	Urban planning for natural hazard mitigation	Project	mitigation, planning, risk management
	Seismic retrofit of unreinforced masonry building facades with FRP composites	Project	earthquake, engineering, mitigation
	Identifying planned burn windows	Project	mitigation, prescribed burning
	Flood risk reduction in a dynamic urban context exploring the urban-water-resilience nexus	Project	flood, mitigation, resilience
	Flood risk mitigation assessment for Launceston	Project	engineering, flood, mitigation
	Voxel-based approach to estimate the volume of fuel load from point cloud data for hazard reduction burning	Project	fire severity, mitigation, prescribed burning
	Enhancing resilience of critical road infrastructure	Project	engineering, mitigation, multi-hazard
	Improving disaster risk communication in various disaster scenarios	Project	mitigation, prescribed burning
	Developing a spatial approach to model sediment transfer in catchments affected by bushfire	Project	fire impacts, land management, mitigation
14 Dec 2016	Is your health prepared for storm season?	Press Clipping	capability, mitigation, severe weather
30 Jun 2017	Building codes not enough to protect homes against water damage in severe storms	Press Clipping	cyclone, engineering, mitigation
12 Feb 2015	National science briefing told disaster areas should be abandoned	Press Clipping	mitigation, planning, policy
13 Jun 2017	Cyclone Debbie highlights building failure issues	Press Clipping	cyclone, engineering, mitigation
03 Apr 2017	What’s critical about critical infrastructure?	Press Clipping	mitigation, planning, policy
12 Feb 2015	CRC says paying for mitigation, relocation more sensible than natural disaster recovery efforts	Press Clipping	mitigation, planning, policy
13 Jun 2017	Post-Tracy building codes ‘reduce cyclone deaths’	Press Clipping	cyclone, engineering, mitigation
09 May 2016	Mitigating disasters: the inconvenient truth	News	flood, fuel reduction, mitigation
11 Dec 2015	Scientific diversity project news	News	communities, mitigation, policy
14 Jun 2016	PhD students complete	News	emergency management, mitigation, multi-hazard
06 Apr 2021	Extra dates added for economic training	News	economics, mitigation, planning
27 Jun 2019	Building the knowledge to better prepare for extreme natural hazards	News	climate change, coincident events, mitigation
11 Jan 2019	Student cyclone interest up north	News	cyclone, mitigation, resilience
18 Dec 2017	Strength in the face of high winds	News	cyclone, engineering, mitigation
29 Mar 2021	New explainer video series to inform mitigation decisions	News	economics, mitigation, multi-hazard
13 Oct 2014	Public event marks International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction	News	communities, mitigation, resilience
12 Feb 2015	Scientific Diversity project update	News	communication, mitigation
23 Feb 2021	Course to upskill on economics to inform mitigation priorities	News	economics, mitigation, planning
09 Dec 2016	Flood research underway in Launceston	News	engineering, flood, mitigation
19 Aug 2021	Award for child-centred disaster risk reduction PhD	News	child-centred, mitigation, risk management
28 Feb 2020	Are we ready for cascading extreme hazards beyond our experience?	News	climate change, coincident events, mitigation
09 May 2016	Mitigation, flood forecasting and policy in focus	News	communities, mitigation, policy
13 Feb 2015	Media get briefing on key research issues	News	emergency management, mitigation, planning
12 Feb 2016	River bed mapping to help flood forecasting	News	flood, forecasting, mitigation
07 Dec 2016	Researchers test tropical cyclone deployment strategies	News	cyclone, engineering, mitigation
15 Jul 2015	Project news - Scientific diversity	News	communication, mitigation
15 May 2019	Prescribed burning research warm up to conference	News	forecasting, mitigation, prescribed burning
04 May 2018	Lessons learnt post-disaster	News	emergency management, mitigation, volunteering
30 May 2017	Making disaster preparation normal: what can we learn from Indonesia?	News	education, mitigation, tsunami