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.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Do disasters predict international pharmacy legislation?	Biblio		emergency management, governance, response
Implementing research to support disaster risk reduction	Biblio	save (277.04 KB)	communities, emergency management, risk management
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational performance: Part four organisational performance research stream	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
What's wrong and what needs fixing? Stakeholder perspectives on making the future of emergency volunteering	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	capability, emergency management, volunteering
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
Research activities within European Union research program for improving preparedness and resilience	Biblio	save (1.32 MB)	emergency management, preparedness, resilience
Implications of climate change for emergency services operations - insights from the literature	Biblio	save (10.6 MB)	climate change, emergency management, governance
Identifying lessons from exercising and training for emergency management decision-making	Biblio	save (731.34 KB)	capability, decision making, emergency management
Enhancing learning in emergency services organisational work	Biblio		capability, decision making, emergency management
Hydrologic model calibration using remotely sensed soil moisture and discharge measurements: The impact on predictions at gauged and ungauged locations	Biblio		emergency management, flood, hydrology
We have not lived long enough: Sensemaking and learning from bushfire in Australia	Biblio		emergency management, governance, policy
Wellington’s Earthquake Resilience: Lessons from the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake	Biblio		earthquake, emergency management, resilience
Leadership in crisis: developing beyond command and control	Biblio	save (350.71 KB)	communication, decision making, emergency management
Seismic assessment of reinforced concrete walls in Australia	Biblio		earthquake, emergency management, resilience
Duty or safety? Exploring emergency service personnel's perceptions of risk and decision-making when driving through floodwater	Biblio	save (833.5 KB)	emergency management, flood, organisational
Characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme events in south east Australia and Tasmania	Project		emergency management, severe weather
Diversity and inclusion: Building strength and capability	Biblio	save (511.1 KB)	capability, diversity and inclusion, emergency management
Are fire brigades liable for poor decisions?	Biblio		emergency management, governance, response
Economics of Natural Hazards Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	emergency management, environments, multi-hazard
Improving volunteer recruitment and retention: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (1.46 MB)	emergency management, recruitment, volunteering
Managing problematic visual media in natural hazard emergencies	Biblio		communication, emergency management, warnings
Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for flood proof buildings - annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (943.9 KB)	emergency management, engineering, flood
Assessing community resilience for emergencies in local government policy - Maroondah City Council and Knox City Council case studies	Project		communities, emergency management, resilience
A review of emergency and fire management training available for remote communities in northern Australia based on the views of local inhabitants	Biblio	save (1.47 MB)	emergency management, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
Flash flood fatalities in NSW, VIC, ACT and South East QLD from 1 January 2000 to 30 June 2017	Biblio	save (1.59 MB)	emergency management, flood, risk management
A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing	Biblio		emergency management, fire, savanna grasslands
Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for fuel reduction, carbon, water and vegetation outcomes	Biblio	save (791.2 KB)	emergency management, fuel reduction, land management
Capability Maturity Assessment facilitators guide	Biblio	save (753.18 KB)	capability, emergency management, policy
Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts - annual report 2018-2019	Biblio		emergency management, fire, land management
Rhetoric or reality: Coordination in a time of crisis	Biblio	save (307.35 KB)	decision making, emergency management, governance
Emergency powers: Civil liberties in the face of disaster	Biblio		emergency management, governance, policy
Investigating the effects of soil moisture, temperature and preciptiation extremes on fire risk and intensity in Australia	Biblio	save (43.2 MB)	emergency management, fire severity, soil moisture
Struggling to make sense of it all: the emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
Organisational socialisation of volunteers in an emergency services agency	Biblio	save (564.04 KB)	emergency management, recruitment, volunteering
Community engagement for disaster risk reduction through embedding DRR values	Project		emergency management, multi-hazard
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
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
Collapse behaviour of limited ductile high-strength reinforced concrete columns under simulated earthquake loading.	Project		emergency management, engineering
Optimising post-disaster recovery interventions in Australia: annual project report 2018-19	Biblio	save (790.52 KB)	emergency management, optimisation, risk management
Large damage bills to buildings from cyclones can be reduced by small actions	Biblio	save (507.42 KB)	cyclone, emergency management, resilience