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
Priorities to guide hazards research	Biblio	save (731.17 KB)	emergency management, multi-hazard, risk management
Implementing research to support disaster risk reduction	Biblio	save (277.04 KB)	communities, emergency management, risk management
From research to red tape - the challenges in implementing fit for duty programs amongst emergency management agencies	Biblio	save (538.93 KB)	emergency management, governance, policy
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational performance: Part four organisational performance research stream	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Network Enabled Agility: A model for filling the strategic void in interoperability thinking	Project		decision making, emergency management, optimisation
Established and emerging uses of predictive services in Victoria	Biblio	save (895.93 KB)	emergency management, fire, firefighter
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
No Ordinary Moments: Improving the response to disasters by enhancing the Incident Command System (ICS)	Project		communication, emergency management
Proposed tools for monitoring teams in emergency management	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Wind load fluctuations on roof batten to rafter/truss connections	Biblio		emergency management, engineering, multi-hazard
Seismic retrofit of exterior RC beam-column joint using diagonal haunch	Biblio		earthquake, emergency management, mitigation
Tools for monitoring teams in emergency management: EMBAM and TBM	Biblio	save (908.13 KB)	decision making, emergency management
Practical Decision Tools for Improved Decision-Making in Complex Situations Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (584.65 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Civil society mobilisation after Cyclone Tracy, Darwin 1974	Biblio	save (2.52 MB)	capability, emergency management, organisational
Don't just do something, stand there! Mitigating goal seduction in emergency management	Biblio		capability, emergency management, volunteering
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
A systematic approach to embedding safety, well-being and risk management when responding to interstate and international deployments	Biblio	save (897.65 KB)	emergency management, multi-hazard
Candidate Interoperability Needs Amongst Response & Recovery Groups	Biblio	save (1.99 MB)	capability, emergency management
A Seasonal-Window Ensemble-Based Thresholding Technique Used to Detect Active Fires in Geostationary Remotely Sensed Data	Biblio		emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Economics of Natural Hazards Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	emergency management, environments, multi-hazard
Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for flood proof buildings - annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (943.9 KB)	emergency management, engineering, flood
Improving volunteer recruitment and retention: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (1.46 MB)	emergency management, recruitment, volunteering
Assessing community resilience for emergencies in local government policy - Maroondah City Council and Knox City Council case studies	Project		communities, emergency management, resilience
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
A characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme events in southeast Australia: Stage 1 – common features of recent events	Biblio	save (21.94 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, severe weather
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
The interaction between firefighting boot design and lower body injury risk at work	Biblio	save (587.38 KB)	emergency management, optimisation, volunteering
Transformative scenarios in a climate challenged world - a guide for using scenarios in the emergency management sector	Biblio	save (2.92 MB)	climate change, emergency management, governance
Research activities within European Union research program for improving preparedness and resilience	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	emergency management, preparedness, resilience
Enhancing learning in emergency services organisational work	Biblio		capability, decision making, emergency management
We have not lived long enough: Sensemaking and learning from bushfire in Australia	Biblio		emergency management, governance, policy
Duty or safety? Exploring emergency service personnel's perceptions of risk and decision-making when driving through floodwater	Biblio	save (833.5 KB)	emergency management, flood, organisational
Prevalence and predictors of mental health in firefighters	Biblio	save (604.44 KB)	capability, emergency management, resilience
Planning and capability requirements for catastrophic and cascading disasters - final project report	Biblio	save (2.01 MB)	capability, emergency management, multi-hazard
Characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme events in south east Australia and Tasmania	Project		emergency management, severe weather
Impact-based forecasting for the coastal zone	Biblio	save (657.21 KB)	coastal, emergency management, storm surge
Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice: Challenges for Australia and Its Neighbours	Biblio		emergency management, framework, policy
We have not lived long enough: Sensemaking and learning from bushfire in Australia	Biblio		decision making, emergency management