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
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational performance: Part three team performance monitoring research stream	Biblio	save (990.42 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Animal Welfare and Disasters	Biblio		animals, emergency management, resilience
The interaction between firefighting boot design and lower body injury risk at work	Biblio	save (587.38 KB)	emergency management, optimisation, volunteering
Influence of road characteristics on flood fatalities in Australia	Biblio	save (1.22 MB)	emergency management, flood, preparedness
The potential role of the commonwealth in responding to catastrophic disasters	Biblio	save (6.84 MB)	emergency management, risk analysis
Estimating rainfall time series and model parameter distributions using model data reduction and inversion techniques	Biblio		communities, emergency management, flood
An assessment of the opportunities to improve strategic decision-making in emergency and disaster management	Biblio	save (259.81 KB)	decision making, emergency management, response
Vehicle‐related flood fatalities in Australia, 2001–2017	Biblio	save (2.97 MB)	emergency management, flood, warnings
A study on the key design factors that improve the experience of the elderly in temporary emergency shelter and village facilities	Project		emergency management, vulnerability
Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation	Biblio		emergency management, environments, risk management
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Development of Capability Targets for the NSW Emergency Management Sector	Biblio	save (973.32 KB)	capability, emergency management
A lidar-derived fuel map for the ACT	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	emergency management, fire weather, fuel reduction
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Biblio	save (19.97 MB)	emergency management, engineering, vulnerability
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational learning in emergency management: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	capability, decision making, emergency management
Overcoming Ambiguity: Conflict Between Emergency Warning Messages and Socio-Environmental Cues	Biblio		communication, emergency management, warnings
How can business share responsibility for disaster resilience?	Biblio	save (649.4 KB)	emergency management, resilience
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational learning in emergency management: Annual project report 2015-2016	Biblio	save (828.74 KB)	decision making, emergency management, governance
Cost-Effective Mitigation Strategy Development for Building Related Earthquake Risk Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (3.04 MB)	earthquake, emergency management, mitigation
Emergency volunteering 2030: Views from the community sector	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	emergency management, volunteering
No ordinary call: factors predicting fire communication officers' job strain and well-being	Biblio	save (978.68 KB)	capability, emergency management, resilience
Final report on vulnerability of as-built and retrofitted URM buildings	Biblio	save (1.13 MB)	earthquake, emergency management
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events - annual report 2018-19	Biblio	save (1.85 MB)	cyclone, emergency management, engineering
Resolving future fire management conflicts using multi-criteria decision making	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
Preparing emergency services for operations in a climate-challenged world - summary report	Biblio	save (2.15 MB)	climate change, emergency management, governance
Long-term solutions to improve emergency management services in remote communities in northern Australia	Biblio		communities, emergency management, Northern Australia
Intelligent warnings: a twenty-first century approach to encouraging protective action in emergencies	Biblio	save (993.19 KB)	communities, emergency management, warnings
We have not lived long enough: sensemaking and learning from bushfire in Australia	Project		emergency management, governance
Analytical Simulation of Limited Ductile RC Beam-Columns	Biblio		earthquake, emergency management, mitigation
Rhetoric or reality: coordination in a time of crisis	Biblio	save (1.97 MB)	emergency management, governance
Prioritisation strategy for seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete buildings in Australia	Project		emergency management, engineering
Describing adaptation tipping points in coastal flood risk management	Biblio		emergency management, flood, forecasting
Opportunities and constraints identified in existing frameworks in use for organisational learning	Biblio	save (1.31 MB)	emergency management, organisational
A theoretical framework for negotiating the path of emergency management multi-agency coordination	Biblio		emergency management, fire
Community strategy development for reducing earthquake risk in Western Australia	Biblio	save (765.35 KB)	earthquake, emergency management, risk analysis
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project		emergency management, fire, volunteering
Animal Emergency Management in Australia	Biblio	save (3.13 MB)	animals, emergency management
Collapse behaviour of limited ductile high-strength RC columns under multidirectional earthquake actions	Biblio		emergency management, engineering, infrastructure
Spanning boundaries to support effective multi-agency coordination in emergency management	Project		capability, emergency management, framework
Sleep and stress in on-call fire and emergency service workers	Biblio		emergency management, mental health