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
Earthquake Management Logistics for York, WA, Pre and Post Mitigation	Biblio	save (726.82 KB)	earthquake, emergency management, engineering
Long-term solutions to improve emergency management services in remote communities in northern Australia	Biblio		communities, emergency management, Northern Australia
Stretch‐Thinking Loops: A New Technique for Scenario Planning	Biblio		emergency management, organisational, scenario analysis
Investigating the effects of soil moisture, temperature and preciptiation extremes on fire risk and intensity in Australia	Biblio	save (43.2 MB)	emergency management, fire severity, soil moisture
Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation	Biblio		emergency management, environments, risk management
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
Community engagement for disaster risk reduction through embedding DRR values	Project		emergency management, multi-hazard
Non‐technical skills for emergency incident management teams: A literature review	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, organisational
Overcoming Ambiguity: Conflict Between Emergency Warning Messages and Socio-Environmental Cues	Biblio		communication, emergency management, warnings
Bushfire and natural hazard training for Northern Australia: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (742.18 KB)	emergency management, multi-hazard, response
Large damage bills to buildings from cyclones can be reduced by small actions	Biblio	save (507.42 KB)	cyclone, emergency management, resilience
Collapse behaviour of limited ductile high-strength reinforced concrete columns under simulated earthquake loading.	Project		emergency management, engineering
Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice: Challenges for Australia and Its Neighbours	Biblio		emergency management, framework, policy
Cost-Effective Mitigation Strategy Development for Building Related Earthquake Risk Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (3.04 MB)	earthquake, emergency management, mitigation
Animal emergency management in South Australia: a case study of the Sampson Flat bushfire	Biblio		animals, communities, emergency management
Sleep and stress in on-call fire and emergency service workers	Biblio		emergency management, mental health
Using realistic disaster scenario analysis to understand natural hazard impacts and emergency management requirements	Project	save (0 bytes)	emergency management, modelling, scenario analysis
Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of recommendations	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
Enhancing team performance	Biblio	save (501.37 KB)	capability, decision making, emergency management
Diversity and inclusion: towards a better understanding of management and measurement - policy paper	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	capability, diversity and inclusion, emergency management
Diversity and inclusion framework for emergency management policy and practice	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	diversity and inclusion, emergency management, policy
Integrated response as a process for enhancing emergency management	Project		emergency management, resilience
Detecting active fires from space using Himawari-8: a report from the regional New South Wales trial	Biblio	save (1.01 MB)	emergency management, fire impacts, planning
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
Activation of community fire units in the Blue Mountains during the October 2013 bushfires	Project		capability, communication, emergency management
Evidence to support incident management team capability	Biblio	save (146.37 KB)	communication, emergency management, multi-hazard
Breakdowns in coordinated decision making at and above the incident management team level: An analysis of three large scale Australian wildfires	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
Rhetoric or reality: coordination in a time of crisis	Biblio	save (1.97 MB)	emergency management, governance
Values and complexities in assessing strategic-level emergency management effectiveness	Biblio		capability, emergency management, response
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
Modelling the impact of lifeline infrastructure failure during natural hazard events	Biblio	save (9.64 MB)	emergency management, environments, risk management
Improving decision making, teamwork and organisational learning in emergency management – final project report	Biblio	save (2.96 MB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Planning and capability requirements for catastrophic and cascading disasters	Biblio	save (1.4 MB)	capability, emergency management, multi-hazard
Using realistic disaster scenario analysis to understand natural hazard impacts and emergency management requirements: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (824.12 KB)	emergency management, multi-hazard, scenario analysis
Sleep and stress in on-call fire and emergency service workers	Project		emergency management
The Hawaii nuclear alert: how did people respond?	Biblio	save (537.88 KB)	emergency management, response, warnings
Valuing non-market economic impacts from natural hazards	Biblio	save (736.18 KB)	economics, emergency management, risk management
Older adults in disaster and emergency management: What are the priority research areas in Australia?	Biblio		diversity and inclusion, emergency management, vulnerability