Key topics

risk management

Risk management refers to the forecasting and evaluation of current and future risks together with the identification of procedures to help avoid or minimise their impact.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Risk ownership and natural hazards: across systems and across values - peer viewed	Biblio	save (253.02 KB)	multi-hazard, risk management
The recalibration of our relationships with science (and nature) by natural hazard risk mitigation practitioners	Biblio		emergency management, risk management
Understanding the nature of abrupt decadal shifts in a changing climate	Biblio	save (16.64 MB)	climate change, risk management
Are two halves better than one whole? A comparison of the amount and quality of sleep obtained by healthy adult males living on split and consolidated sleep–wake schedules	Biblio		capability, risk management, scenario analysis
Seismic assessment of reinforced concrete buildings in Australia including the response of gravity frames	Biblio	save (16.63 MB)	earthquake, risk management
Building an ARC in the mountains: a community-led initiative to build an animal-ready community (ARC) in the NSW Blue Mountains to provide a template for similar activities	Biblio	save (605.75 KB)	animals, resilience, risk management
Implementing research to support disaster risk reduction	Biblio	save (277.04 KB)	communities, emergency management, risk management
Integrated economic assessment of fire risk management strategies: Case studies in Central Otago, New Zealand, and Mount Lofty Region, South Australia	Biblio	save (1.62 MB)	economics, fire impacts, risk management
The uncomfortable conversation: understanding value through risk ownership	Biblio	save (770.74 KB)	economics, risk management, vulnerability
Optimising post-disaster recovery interventions in Australia: annual project report 2018-19	Biblio	save (790.52 KB)	emergency management, optimisation, risk management
Approaches to the assessment of children in the context of disasters	Biblio		child-centred, communication, risk management
Fire Risk Assessment of Combustible Exterior Cladding Using a Collective Numerical Database	Biblio	save (3.03 MB)	fire, infrastructure, risk management
Whose risk is it anyway?	Biblio	save (1.29 MB)	risk analysis, risk management
Scenario planning for remote community risk management in northern Australia - final project report	Biblio	save (3.75 MB)	indigenous communities, planning, risk management
Fuels3D: barking up the wrong tree and beyond	Biblio	save (1.08 MB)	fire impacts, multi-hazard, risk management
Volcanic eruptions and disruptions	Biblio		risk analysis, risk management
Risk mitigation from prescribed burning in Kangaroo Island and Mount Lofty Ranges - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (3.36 MB)	mitigation, prescribed burning, risk management
Progress made with public awareness-raising activities aimed at building both rural and urban disaster resilience	Biblio		child-centred, risk management, vulnerability
Yanchep bushfire analysis – Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire severity, land management, risk management
Social media in emergencies: An examination of government accountability for risk communication and warning	Biblio	save (2.73 MB)	emergency management, policy, risk management
Scientific diversity, scientific uncertainty and risk mitigation policy and planning: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (938.45 KB)	mitigation, policy, risk management
Learning Lessons from Disasters: Alternatives to Royal Commissions and Other Quasi-Judicial Inquiries	Biblio		governance, risk management
Valuing recovery through risk ownership	Biblio	save (893.83 KB)	fire, recovery, risk management
Evaluating Children’s Learning of Adaptive Response Capacities from ShakeOut, an Earthquake and Tsunami Drill in Two Washington State School Districts	Biblio		child-centred, communication, risk management
How Safe is Safe Enough? Melbourne Case Study	Biblio	save (715.78 KB)	earthquake, engineering, risk management
Local Government Capacity and Land Use Planning for Natural Hazards: A Comparative Evaluation of Australian Local Government Areas	Biblio	save (858.57 KB)	planning, resilience, risk management
Understanding Wildfire Patterns in the South-Eastern Australia	Biblio	save (6 MB)	fire, modelling, risk management
An assessment of the viability of prescribed burning as a management tool under a changing climate: a Tasmanian case study	Biblio	save (1.01 MB)	fuel reduction, prescribed burning, risk management
Integrating bushfire risk reduction and statutory mechanisms in South Australia: assessment of the draft Planning and Design Code 2019	Biblio	save (1.65 MB)	fire impacts, infrastructure, risk management
Where to prescribe burn: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning close to houses	Biblio		economics, prescribed burning, risk management
Developing a scale to understand willingness to sacrifice personal safety for companion animals: The Pet-Owner Risk Propensity Scale (PORPS)	Biblio		animals, communication, risk management
Planned and ultimate actions of horse owners facing a bushfire threat: Implications for natural disaster preparedness and survivability	Biblio		animals, resilience, risk management
Conflicting perspectives on nonhuman animal rescues in natural disasters	Biblio		animals, communication, risk management
Making the landscape “home”: Narratives of bushfire and place in Australia	Biblio		fire, risk management
Risk modelling as a tool to support natural hazard risk management in New Zealand local government	Biblio		risk analysis, risk management, tsunami
A case study of South Australia's severe thunderstorm and tornado outbreak	Biblio	save (2.86 MB)	coastal, risk management, storm surge
Building best practice in child-centred disaster risk reduction: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (1013.67 KB)	child-centred, resilience, risk management
Strategic adaptation pathway planning to manage sea-level rise and changing coastal flood risk	Biblio		coastal, risk analysis, risk management
People and their animals in emergencies: snapshots from past emergency events	Biblio		animals, multi-hazard, risk 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