A paper from the Policies, institutions and governance team has been published in the Australian Journal of Emergency Management. Titled Reviewing high-risk and high-consequence decisions: finding a safer way, this article identifies shortcomings with the adversarial processes used in inquiries following significant natural hazard events and suggests that post-event inquiries should aim to adopt restorative practices instead. The authors suggest that restorative practice could be the key to inquiries that benefit all parties and enable a focus on both short- and long-term recovery
Accurate, precise and timely forecasts of flood wave arrival time, depth and velocity at each point of the floodplain are essential to reduce damage and save lives, however a number of sources of uncertainty may hinder the delivery of accurate predictions. Field gauging data of water levels and discharge have traditionally been used for hydraulic model calibration, validation and real-time constraint, but the discrete spatial distribution of field data impedes the testing of the model skill at the two-dimensional scale. In response to this issue Surveys in Geophysics have published an article from the Improving flood forecast skill using remote sensing data team that reviews the availability of remote sensing observations of flood extent and levels, and their use for calibration, validation and real-time constraint of hydraulic flood forecasting models.
The CRC has also released a number of reports based on research conducted by our project teams:
Policies, institutions and governance of natural hazards