Key topics

communities

Communities refers to groups of people living in the same place, who share particular characteristics or endeavours.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Young people and the emergency services: working towards inclusive partnerships	Biblio	save (461.21 KB)	communities, diversity and inclusion, resilience
Reducing bushfire risk to vulnerable community members through health and community services agencies – business continuity approach	Biblio	save (687.64 KB)	communities, emergency management, fire
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community risk	Biblio	save (5.46 MB)	communities, modelling, severe weather
Utilisation of fire spread simulators to assess power network fire risk	Biblio	save (1.51 MB)	communities, modelling, warnings
A Culture of Burning: Social-Ecological Memory, Social Learning and Adaptation in Australian Volunteer Fire Brigades	Biblio		communities, prescribed burning, resilience
Building Resilient Remote Communities in Northern Australia Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (732.25 KB)	communities, indigenous communities, local knowledge
Children in the 2015 South Indian floods: community members’ views	Biblio		child-centred, communities, flood
Social Media, Crisis Communication and Community-led Response and Recovery: An Australian Case Study Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (532.41 KB)	communication, communities
Exploring the experiences of those who shelter in place during severe flooding	Biblio	save (6.08 MB)	communities, decision making, flood
Bushfire survival preparations by householders in at-risk areas of south-eastern Australia	Biblio		communities, fire, planning
Reimagining program monitoring and evaluation for disaster resilience outcomes	Biblio	save (981.44 KB)	communities, resilience, risk management
Predicting risk-mitigating behaviors from indecisiveness and trait-anxiety: two cognitive pathways to task avoidance	Biblio		communication, communities, preparedness
Community adaptation to cope with disaster related road structure failure	Biblio	save (399.28 KB)	communities, multi-hazard, resilience
Child Health and Survival in a Changing Climate: Vulnerability, Mitigation, and Adaptation	Biblio		child-centred, communities, risk management
Using environmental criminology theories to compare ‘youth misuse of fire’ across age groups in New South Wales	Biblio		communities, fire
Predicting delay in residents’ decisions on defending v. evacuating through antecedents of decision avoidance	Biblio		communication, communities, preparedness
Evidence-based risk communication: an industry-academic research collaboration that enhanced dam release message effectiveness	Biblio	save (365.96 KB)	communication, communities, warnings
Mapping approaches to community engagement for preparedness in Australia - final report	Biblio	save (2.98 MB)	communities, multi-hazard, preparedness
Barriers and enablers in the long term recovery of communities affected by natural hazards: a review of the literature	Biblio	save (1.06 MB)	communities, emergency management, recovery
Contacts versus connectors: The role of Community Fire Safe Group coordinators in achieving positive bushfire safety outcomes	Biblio		communication, communities, warnings
Defining Sufficient Household Preparedness for Active Wildfire Defense: Toward an Australian Baseline	Biblio		communication, communities, preparedness
Navigating Uncertainty: community experiences of bushfire	Biblio	save (556.32 KB)	communities, decision making, recovery
Reviving people’s trust in Bamboo technology: A case-study of Orlaha settlement reconstruction in Bihar, after the 2008 Kosi floods	Biblio		communities, recovery, resilience
Surviving bushfire: the role of shelters and sheltering practices during the Black Saturday bushfires	Biblio		communities, decision making, fire
Capturing community experiences: South Australian bushfires January 2014	Biblio	save (8.35 MB)	communication, communities, decision making
Recognising and measuring competency in natural hazard preparation: A preparedness competency index	Biblio		communities, preparedness, response
Assessing the potential, application, and implications of volunteered geographic information in disaster risk reduction	Biblio	save (7.27 MB)	communities, local knowledge, volunteering
Psychological differences between south-eastern Australian householders' who intend to leave if threatened by a wildfire and those who intend to stay and defend	Biblio		communication, communities, warnings
Perceptions of risk and connection to landscape	Biblio		communities, fire, risk management
Get ready NSW- fostering all hazards resilience in local communities	Biblio	save (667.19 KB)	communities, emergency management, resilience
Community organisation involvement in disaster management	Biblio	save (1.76 MB)	communities, emergency management, multi-hazard
Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (816.16 KB)	communities, forecasting, severe weather
Business involvement in natural disasters in Australia and New Zealand	Biblio	save (1.87 MB)	capability, communities, recovery
Literature review on community resilience in remote north Australia	Biblio	save (1.41 MB)	communities, Northern Australia, resilience
Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering: annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (1.31 MB)	communities, volunteering
Capturing community members' bushfire experiences following the 12 January 2014 Parkerville (WA) fire: supplementary online survey	Biblio	save (6.33 MB)	communication, communities, decision making
Development and preliminary validation of the Constructive and Unconstructive Worry Questionnaire: A measure of individual differences in constructive versus unconstructive worry	Biblio		communities, decision making, mental health
Disaster in Relation to Attachment, Loss, Grief and Recovery: The Marysville Experience.	Biblio	save (45.1 MB)	communities, fire impacts, recovery
The effect of firefighter-delivered fire safety education on young people who misuse fire	Biblio		communities, education, fire
Checks and balances: A business‐oriented lens on disaster management and warnings	Biblio		communication, communities, recovery