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.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
	Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Biblio	save (19.97 MB)	emergency management, engineering, vulnerability
	The lived experience of disadvantaged communities affected by the 2015 South Indian Floods: Implications for disaster risk reduction dialogue	Biblio		communities, emergency management, vulnerability
	Using discrete event simulation cellular automata models to determine multi-mode travel times and routes of terrestrial suppression resources to wildland fires	Biblio		emergency management, fire
	Overcoming Ambiguity: Conflict Between Emergency Warning Messages and Socio-Environmental Cues	Biblio		communication, emergency management, warnings
	Large damage bills to buildings from cyclones can be reduced by small actions	Biblio	save (507.42 KB)	cyclone, emergency management, resilience
	Learning to learn from bushfire: Perspectives from Victorian emergency management practitioners	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
	The Hawaii nuclear alert: how did people respond?	Biblio	save (537.88 KB)	emergency management, response, warnings
	Discussion paper: Learning for emergency services, looking for a new approach	Biblio	save (2.34 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
	Sleep and stress in on-call fire and emergency service workers	Biblio		emergency management, mental health
	Community organisation involvement in disaster management	Biblio	save (1.76 MB)	communities, emergency management, multi-hazard
	Prevalence and predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviours among Australian police and emergency services employees	Biblio		emergency management, mental health, organisational
	Assessing the application and value of participatory mapping for community bushfire preparation	Biblio		communities, emergency management, local knowledge
	Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of recommendations	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
	Increasing emergency management capacity through business sector involvement	Biblio	save (503.1 KB)	emergency management, land management, risk 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 learning in emergency management: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (863.67 KB)	decision making, emergency management
	Improving Fire Behaviour Data Obtained from Wildfires	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
	Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, multi-hazard
	Evidence to support incident management team capability	Biblio	save (146.37 KB)	communication, emergency management, multi-hazard
	Rhetoric or reality: coordination in a time of crisis	Biblio	save (1.97 MB)	emergency management, governance
	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
	Describing adaptation tipping points in coastal flood risk management	Biblio		emergency management, flood, forecasting
	Experiences in the in-field utilisation of fuels3D	Biblio	save (601.76 KB)	emergency management, fire, fuel reduction
	Opportunities and constraints identified in existing frameworks in use for organisational learning	Biblio	save (1.31 MB)	emergency management, organisational
21 Oct 2016	Learning lessons from, and about, post disaster inquiries	Blog		decision making, emergency management, policy
20 Dec 2017	Thank you for the hard work and activity	Blog		emergency management, land management, multi-hazard
11 Mar 2015	Marketing research informs risk communication in South Australia	Blog		communication, emergency management
06 Dec 2019	12 simple ways you can reduce bushfire risk to older homes	Blog		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
14 Jan 2021	Driving Change – the place that starts at the end of the journey	Blog		emergency management, multi-hazard
27 Nov 2017	Demonstrating impact vital	Blog		emergency management, land management, multi-hazard
18 Nov 2019	Disaster database developed	Blog		decision making, emergency management, guidelines
25 Jul 2017	Halfway to delivering to the country	Blog		emergency management, mitigation, multi-hazard
11 Mar 2016	Expedited ethics review of time-critical research	Blog		emergency management, planning, policy
15 Feb 2018	Independent performance review of the CRC	Blog		communication, emergency management, multi-hazard
05 Apr 2016	Utilisation the real challenge	Blog		emergency management, non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
18 Feb 2019	To build or not build: that is the Townsville question	Blog		decision making, emergency management, multi-hazard
03 Sep 2019	Grim fire season looms but many Australians remain unprepared	Blog		communication, emergency management, fire impacts
18 Aug 2020	Towards a new disaster research centre	Blog		emergency management, fire, multi-hazard
23 Mar 2016	How are mapping technologies impacting emergency management?	Blog		communities, emergency management, local knowledge