Building community resilience through non-traditional emergency volunteering

Research outputs and artefacts

27 Oct 2014
Dr Blythe McLennan discusses the role of informal volunteers in emergency management in Australia and New Zealand. She identifies opportunities for and barriers to greater involvement of informal volunteers in emergencies.

Key Topics

capability
non-traditional recruitment

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Dr Blythe McLennan
Researcher
blythe.mclennan@rmit.edu.au

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