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.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Exploring ISO31000 Risk Management during Dynamic Fire and Emergency Operations in Western Australia	Biblio	save (553.18 KB)	fire, firefighter, risk management
Improved predictions of extreme sea levels around Australia	Biblio	save (3.75 MB)	emergency management, risk management, storm surge
Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Biblio	save (6.95 MB)	fire, fire impacts, risk management
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
Hazards, culture and Indigenous communities – final project report	Biblio	save (2.33 MB)	indigenous communities, resilience, risk management
Volcanic eruptions and disruptions	Biblio		risk analysis, risk management
Building resilience through flood risk communication annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (415.97 KB)	emergency management, flood, risk management
Bridging the divide between studies on disaster risk reduction education and child-centred disaster risk reduction: a critical review	Biblio		child-centred, education, risk management
Progress made with public awareness-raising activities aimed at building both rural and urban disaster resilience	Biblio		child-centred, risk management, vulnerability
Scientific diversity, scientific uncertainty and risk mitigation policy and planning: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (938.45 KB)	mitigation, policy, risk management
School-based bushfire education: advancing teaching and learning for risk reduction and resilience	Biblio	save (1.12 MB)	education, fire impacts, 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
Satellite Remote Sensing Contributions to Wildland Fire Science and Management	Biblio		fire, remote sensing, 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
Extreme floods and river values: A social–ecological perspective	Biblio		flood, 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
Making the landscape “home”: Narratives of bushfire and place in Australia	Biblio		fire, risk management
Estimating Fire Background Temperature at a Geostationary Scale—An Evaluation of Contextual Methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire impacts, fire weather, risk management
Disaster Risk Reduction in Bushfire Prone Areas: Challenges for an Integrated Land Use Planning Policy Regime	Biblio		fire, planning, risk management
Review of literature on decision support systems for natural hazard risk reduction: current status and future research directions	Biblio		decision making, policy, risk management
Building best practice in child-centred disaster risk reduction: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (1013.67 KB)	child-centred, resilience, risk management
Cultural burning in southern Australia	Biblio	save (6.41 MB)	indigenous communities, resilience, risk management
People and their animals in emergencies: snapshots from past emergency events	Biblio		animals, multi-hazard, risk management
Fragility and resilience of bridges subjected to extreme wave-induced forces	Biblio	save (5.1 MB)	engineering, risk management
Disaster resilience education: A practice framework for Australian emergency management agencies	Biblio	save (1004.55 KB)	child-centred, education, risk management
Denaturalising heatwaves: gendered social vulnerability in urban heatwaves, a review	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	resilience, risk management, vulnerability
From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation – final project report	Biblio	save (3.36 MB)	mitigation, prescribed burning, risk management
Conflicting perspectives on nonhuman animal rescues in natural disasters	Biblio		animals, communication, risk management
NSW RFS Bush Fire Household Assessment Tool Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (482.03 KB)	communities, decision making, risk management
Implementing Disaster Preparedness education in New Zealand primary schools	Biblio		child-centred, communication, 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
The recalibration of our relationships with science (and nature) by natural hazard risk mitigation practitioners	Biblio		emergency management, risk management
Tomorrow's disasters – Embedding foresight principles into disaster risk assessment and treatment	Biblio		modelling, policy, risk management
Institutional maps of risk ownership for strategic decision making	Biblio	save (1.43 MB)	planning, risk management, vulnerability
Probability and consequence of post-fire contamination events in a water supply catchment	Biblio	save (1.08 MB)	fire severity, risk management, vulnerability
Scenario planning for remote community risk management in northern Australia - final project report	Biblio	save (3.75 MB)	indigenous communities, planning, 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