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
Large damage bills to buildings from cyclones can be reduced by small actions	Biblio	save (507.42 KB)	cyclone, emergency management, resilience
Learning for emergency services: looking for a new approach	Biblio	save (1.91 MB)	emergency management, governance, policy
Animal emergency management in South Australia: a case study of the Sampson Flat bushfire	Biblio		animals, communities, emergency management
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational learning in emergency management: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (828.74 KB)	decision making, emergency management, governance
Intelligent warnings: a twenty-first century approach to encouraging protective action in emergencies	Biblio	save (993.19 KB)	communities, emergency management, warnings
Increasing residents’ preparedness and planning for natural hazards : annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (674.96 KB)	communication, emergency management, planning
A modified Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia (2015) scenario: wind and storm tide hazards and impacts	Biblio	save (1.64 MB)	emergency management, modelling, scenario analysis
Stretch‐Thinking Loops: A New Technique for Scenario Planning	Biblio		emergency management, organisational, scenario analysis
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Optimising emergency services resourcing: informing SAFECOM's capability planning	Project		capability, communication, emergency management
When policy, politics and emergency management collide: managing coordination in crises	Biblio	save (307.28 KB)	emergency management, governance, policy
Non‐technical skills for emergency incident management teams: A literature review	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, organisational
Opportunities and constraints identified in existing frameworks in use for organisational learning	Biblio	save (1.31 MB)	emergency management, organisational
Improving decision making, teamwork and organisational learning in emergency management – final project report	Biblio	save (2.96 MB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Improving Fire Behaviour Data Obtained from Wildfires	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project		emergency management, fire, volunteering
Evidence to support incident management team capability	Biblio	save (146.37 KB)	communication, emergency management, multi-hazard
The effect of working on-call from home on salivary cortisol in fire and emergency service personnel	Biblio		capability, emergency management, optimisation
Risky business: Why diversity and inclusion matter	Biblio	save (2.31 MB)	diversity and inclusion, emergency management
Experiences in the in-field utilisation of fuels3D	Biblio	save (601.76 KB)	emergency management, fire, fuel reduction
Prevalence and predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviours among Australian police and emergency services employees	Biblio		emergency management, mental health, organisational
Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for building related earthquake risk: progress report on economic loss modelling	Biblio	save (1.16 MB)	decision making, earthquake, emergency management
Advances in the remote sensing of active fires: a review	Biblio	save (1.79 MB)	emergency management, fire, remote sensing
A theoretical framework for negotiating the path of emergency management multi-agency coordination	Biblio		emergency management, fire
Diversity and inclusion: towards a better understanding of management and measurement - policy paper	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	capability, diversity and inclusion, emergency management
Increasing emergency management capacity through business sector involvement	Biblio	save (503.1 KB)	emergency management, land management, risk management
The Hawaii nuclear alert: how did people respond?	Biblio	save (537.88 KB)	emergency management, response, warnings
Animal Emergency Management in Australia	Biblio	save (3.13 MB)	animals, emergency management
Spanning boundaries to support effective multi-agency coordination in emergency management	Project		capability, emergency management, framework
Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of recommendations	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational performance: Part One Executive Summary	Biblio	save (938.06 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Prioritisation strategy for seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete buildings in Australia	Project		emergency management, engineering
Vulnerability of buildings and civil infrastructure to tropical cyclones: A preliminary review of modelling approaches and literature	Biblio	save (1.74 MB)	emergency management, modelling, scenario analysis
A comparison of the discrete cosine and wavelet transforms for hydrologic model input data reduction	Biblio		emergency management, flood
Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement	Biblio		communication, education, emergency management
The impact of individual factors and operational organisational resources and demands on mental health outcomes	Project		emergency management, resilience, risk management
My grab bag is two suitcases: an autoethnographical view of a super-plus size self-evacuation from Hurricane Irma	Biblio		diversity and inclusion, emergency management, vulnerability
Tools for monitoring teams in emergency management: EMBAM and TBM	Biblio	save (908.13 KB)	decision making, emergency management
Self-evacuation archetypes in Australian bushfire	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Don't just do something, stand there! Mitigating goal seduction in emergency management	Biblio		capability, emergency management, volunteering