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.

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Rhetoric or reality: Coordination in a time of crisis	Biblio	save (307.35 KB)	decision making, emergency management, governance
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
Leadership in crisis: developing beyond command and control	Biblio	save (350.71 KB)	communication, decision making, emergency management
Human error during the multilevel responses to three Australian bushfire disasters	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, fire
Emergency powers: Civil liberties in the face of disaster	Biblio		emergency management, governance, policy
Economics of natural hazards annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (1.16 MB)	emergency management, governance, risk management
Struggling to make sense of it all: the emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
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
Ten years on from the Victorian Black Saturday bushfires - public information during response	Biblio	save (1.42 MB)	communication, emergency management
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for north Australia	Biblio	save (3.32 MB)	emergency management, planning, savanna grasslands
We have not lived long enough: Sensemaking and learning from bushfire in Australia	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
Emergency Volunteering 2030: Views from Managers in Volunteerism	Biblio	save (1.89 MB)	emergency management, volunteering
Large damage bills to buildings from cyclones can be reduced by small actions	Biblio	save (507.42 KB)	cyclone, emergency management, resilience
The post disaster city: crisis politics and social change in community led earthquake recovery	Biblio	save (25.5 MB)	capability, communities, emergency management
You own the fuel, but who owns the fire?	Biblio		emergency management, policy, risk analysis
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 performance: Part two decision making research stream	Biblio	save (1.45 MB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
The recalibration of our relationships with science (and nature) by natural hazard risk mitigation practitioners	Biblio		emergency management, risk management
Organisational socialisation of volunteers in an emergency services agency	Biblio	save (564.04 KB)	emergency management, recruitment, volunteering
Are we future ready? It depends on who you ask	Biblio	save (1.59 MB)	emergency management, vulnerability, warnings
Transformative scenarios in a climate challenged world - research methodology for scenario development	Biblio	save (4.32 MB)	climate change, emergency management, governance
Improving Fire Behaviour Data Obtained from Wildfires	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
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
Evidence to support incident management team capability	Biblio	save (146.37 KB)	communication, emergency management, multi-hazard
State Emergency Service volunteer views on expectations, experiences and motivations	Biblio	save (768.9 KB)	emergency management, volunteering
Australian householders’ psychological preparedness for potential natural hazard threats: An exploration of contributing factors	Biblio		communities, emergency management, fire
Business involvement in disaster management	Biblio	save (1.19 MB)	capability, emergency management, multi-hazard
Experiences in the in-field utilisation of fuels3D	Biblio	save (601.76 KB)	emergency management, fire, fuel reduction
Progress report on costing of limited ductile reinforced concrete buildings	Biblio	save (578.13 KB)	earthquake, emergency management, engineering
Discussion paper: Learning for emergency services, looking for a new approach	Biblio	save (2.34 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
The roles of pharmacists in disaster health management in natural and anthropogenic disasters	Biblio	save (13.99 MB)	communication, emergency management
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Disaster Management	Biblio		emergency management, governance, policy
The Hawaii nuclear alert: how did people respond?	Biblio	save (537.88 KB)	emergency management, response, warnings
Assessing the application and value of participatory mapping for community bushfire preparation	Biblio		communities, emergency management, local knowledge
Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering: annual report 2018-19	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	emergency management, volunteering
Embedding non-technical skills as part of core business in emergency management - Final project report Part A	Biblio	save (493.6 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Demographic profiling: Queensland floods 2010-11 Brisbane River catchment area case study	Biblio	save (1.28 MB)	emergency management, flood, risk analysis
Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of recommendations	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, multi-hazard