Key topics

risk management

Risk management refers to the forecasting and evaluation of current and future risks together with the identification of procedures to help avoid or minimise their impact.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
01 Apr 2020	If you’re worried about bushfires but want to keep your leafy garden, follow these tips	Blog		environments, fuel reduction, risk management
17 Dec 2018	Building momentum for what comes next	Blog		emergency management, resilience, risk management
03 Mar 2016	The social life of science in policy and planning	Blog		decision making, policy, risk management
	Are two halves better than one whole? A comparison of the amount and quality of sleep obtained by healthy adult males living on split and consolidated sleep–wake schedules	Biblio		capability, risk management, scenario analysis
	Probability and consequence of post-fire contamination events in a water supply catchment	Biblio	save (1.08 MB)	fire severity, risk management, vulnerability
	Building an ARC in the mountains: a community-led initiative to build an animal-ready community (ARC) in the NSW Blue Mountains to provide a template for similar activities	Biblio	save (605.75 KB)	animals, resilience, risk management
	Integrated economic assessment of fire risk management strategies: Case studies in Central Otago, New Zealand, and Mount Lofty Region, South Australia	Biblio	save (1.62 MB)	economics, fire impacts, risk management
	Adaptive prescribed burning in Australia for the early 21st Century – context, status, challenges	Biblio	save (295.2 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
	Solving wicked problems linked to disasters, risk and uncertainty: Children are truly our future	Biblio	save (128.36 KB)	child-centred, communication, risk management
	Risk ownership and natural hazards: across systems and across values - peer viewed	Biblio	save (253.02 KB)	multi-hazard, risk management
	Tomorrow's disasters – Embedding foresight principles into disaster risk assessment and treatment	Biblio		modelling, policy, risk management
	Opportunities for alternative fuel load reduction approaches - summary report	Biblio	save (2.43 MB)	fuel reduction, risk management
	Progress made with public awareness-raising activities aimed at building both rural and urban disaster resilience	Biblio		child-centred, risk management, vulnerability
	Increasing the comprehensiveness of bushfire risk management in Victoria through the planning system	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	fire, planning, risk management
	Scientific diversity, scientific uncertainty and risk mitigation policy and planning: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (938.45 KB)	mitigation, policy, risk management
	Hazards, culture and Indigenous communities – annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (2.56 MB)	indigenous communities, resilience, risk management
	Exploratory scenario analysis for disaster risk reduction: Considering alternative pathways in disaster risk assessment	Biblio		risk management, scenario analysis, vulnerability
	Approaches to the assessment of children in the context of disasters	Biblio		child-centred, communication, risk management
	Whose risk is it anyway?	Biblio	save (1.29 MB)	risk analysis, risk management
	Conditions for effective coproduction in community-led disaster risk management	Biblio		emergency management, multi-hazard, risk management
	Economics of natural hazards - final project report	Biblio	save (1.16 MB)	economics, mitigation, risk management
	Volcanic eruptions and disruptions	Biblio		risk analysis, risk management
	A new decision support tool for prescribed burning risk assessment	Biblio	save (748.61 KB)	decision making, prescribed burning, risk management
	Future risk framework: understanding tomorrow’s risk and what we can do to reduce it	Biblio	save (2.31 MB)	mitigation, planning, risk management
	An assessment of the viability of prescribed burning as a management tool under a changing climate: a Tasmanian case study	Biblio	save (1.01 MB)	fuel reduction, prescribed burning, risk management
	Reimagining program monitoring and evaluation for disaster resilience outcomes	Biblio	save (981.44 KB)	communities, resilience, risk management
	Developing a scale to understand willingness to sacrifice personal safety for companion animals: The Pet-Owner Risk Propensity Scale (PORPS)	Biblio		animals, communication, risk management
	The oak or the reed: how resilience theories are translated into distaster management policies	Biblio	save (2.34 MB)	policy, resilience, risk management
	Learning Lessons from Disasters: Alternatives to Royal Commissions and Other Quasi-Judicial Inquiries	Biblio		governance, risk management
	Evaluating Children’s Learning of Adaptive Response Capacities from ShakeOut, an Earthquake and Tsunami Drill in Two Washington State School Districts	Biblio		child-centred, communication, risk management
	Behaviour around floodwater: challenges for floodwater safety and risk communication	Biblio	save (426.96 KB)	communication, flood, risk management
	Identification of fuel management locations and risk reduction potential	Biblio	save (1.11 MB)	land management, risk management
	People and their animals in emergencies: snapshots from past emergency events	Biblio		animals, multi-hazard, risk management
	Domestic architecture and the perception of risk in bushfire-prone areas	Biblio		fire, land management, risk management
	Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation	Biblio		emergency management, environments, risk management
	Disaster resilience education: A practice framework for Australian emergency management agencies	Biblio	save (1004.55 KB)	child-centred, education, risk management
	Australian inquiries into natural hazard events: Recommendations relating to urban planning for natural hazard mitigation (2009-2017)	Biblio	save (1.94 MB)	mitigation, planning, risk management
	Developing and testing models of the drivers of anthropogenic and lightning-caused wildfire ignitions in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, modelling, risk management
	Conflicting perspectives on nonhuman animal rescues in natural disasters	Biblio		animals, communication, risk management
	Making the landscape “home”: Narratives of bushfire and place in Australia	Biblio		fire, risk management