Key topics

communities

Communities refers to groups of people living in the same place, who share particular characteristics or endeavours.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Barriers and enablers in the long term recovery of communities affected by natural hazards: a review of the literature	Biblio	save (1.06 MB)	communities, emergency management, recovery
Exploring the experiences of those who shelter in place during severe flooding	Biblio	save (6.08 MB)	communities, decision making, flood
Reimagining program monitoring and evaluation for disaster resilience outcomes	Biblio	save (981.44 KB)	communities, resilience, risk management
Contacts versus connectors: The role of Community Fire Safe Group coordinators in achieving positive bushfire safety outcomes	Biblio		communication, communities, warnings
Gendered responses to the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, response
Using environmental criminology theories to compare ‘youth misuse of fire’ across age groups in New South Wales	Biblio		communities, fire
Improving the Role of Hazard Communications in Increasing Residents' Preparedness and Response Planning Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (537.23 KB)	communication, communities, preparedness
Assessing the potential, application, and implications of volunteered geographic information in disaster risk reduction	Biblio	save (7.27 MB)	communities, local knowledge, volunteering
2014 Parkerville WA post-incident task force	Project		communication, communities, decision making
Community organisation involvement in disaster management	Biblio	save (1.76 MB)	communities, emergency management, multi-hazard
Get ready NSW- fostering all hazards resilience in local communities	Biblio	save (667.19 KB)	communities, emergency management, resilience
Business involvement in natural disasters in Australia and New Zealand	Biblio	save (1.87 MB)	capability, communities, recovery
Risk communications in Victoria	Project		communication, communities, fire
Homelessness and severe storms: a case study of the June 2016 East Coast Low	Project		communities, flood, severe weather
Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (1.31 MB)	communities, volunteering
Navigating Uncertainty: community experiences of bushfire	Biblio	save (556.32 KB)	communities, decision making, recovery
Improving the role of hazard communications in increasing residents’ preparedness and response planning	Project		communication, communities, preparedness
Reviving people’s trust in Bamboo technology: A case-study of Orlaha settlement reconstruction in Bihar, after the 2008 Kosi floods	Biblio		communities, recovery, resilience
Literature review on community resilience in remote north Australia	Biblio	save (1.41 MB)	communities, Northern Australia, resilience
Community-led bushfire preparedness in action: The case of Be Ready Warrandyte	Biblio	save (834.52 KB)	communities, decision making, volunteering
Recognising and measuring competency in natural hazard preparation: A preparedness competency index	Biblio		communities, preparedness, response
Dynamic smoke modelling and community impact of smoke	Project		communities, fire impacts
Surviving bushfire: the role of shelters and sheltering practices during the Black Saturday bushfires	Biblio		communities, decision making, fire
Disaster in Relation to Attachment, Loss, Grief and Recovery: The Marysville Experience.	Biblio	save (45.1 MB)	communities, fire impacts, recovery
Valuing volunteers: better understanding the primary motives for volunteering in Australian emergency services	Biblio	save (1.86 MB)	communities, emergency management, volunteering
Predictors of south-eastern Australian householders’ strengths of intentions to self-evacuate if a wildfire threatens: two theoretical models	Biblio		communication, communities, warnings
Examining bushfire policy in action: Preparedness and behaviour in the 2009 Black Saturday fires	Biblio	save (438.46 KB), save (513.82 KB)	communities, fire, policy
The human dimensions of environmental crime	Project		communities, environments, land management
Opportunities and challenges of citizen-led recovery in post-disaster settings	Biblio	save (183.33 KB)	communities, recovery, volunteering
Analysis of community responses to the 2017 heatwave	Project		communities, response, severe weather
Development and preliminary validation of the Constructive and Unconstructive Worry Questionnaire: A measure of individual differences in constructive versus unconstructive worry	Biblio		communities, decision making, mental health
Out of uniform: building community resilience through non-traditional emergency volunteering: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (480.75 KB)	communities, non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
The effect of firefighter-delivered fire safety education on young people who misuse fire	Biblio		communities, education, fire
Checks and balances: A business‐oriented lens on disaster management and warnings	Biblio		communication, communities, recovery
Disasters and economic resilience: the income effects of the Cyclone Oswald 2013 on small business owners	Biblio	save (2.55 MB)	communities, cyclone, economics
Capturing community members' bushfire experiences: interviews with residents following the 12 January 2014 Parkerville (WA) fire	Biblio	save (1.96 MB)	communication, communities, decision making
Checks and balances: A business‐oriented lens on disaster management and warnings	Biblio		communication, communities, warnings
Recovery Capitals (ReCap): applying a community capitals framework to disaster recovery - annual report 2019/20	Biblio	save (1.13 MB)	communities, recovery, resilience
Effective communication of household wildfire risk through WebGIS: considerations in content, representation and design	Project		communication, communities, fire
Real people, real stories- if it’s flooded forget it	Biblio	save (767.2 KB)	communities, emergency management, flood