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
Managing cognitive biases during disaster response: the development of an aide memoire	Biblio		emergency management, optimisation, organisational
Applying unharmed for risk reduction planning – comparing strategies and long-term effectiveness	Biblio	save (1.51 MB)	emergency management, mitigation, response
Volunteering research in Australia: A narrative review	Biblio		diversity and inclusion, emergency management, volunteering
Supplementing emergency warning messages to encourage readiness to act: the effect of colours and icons	Biblio	save (3.07 MB)	communication, emergency management, warnings
Candidate Interoperability Needs Amongst Response & Recovery Groups	Biblio	save (1.99 MB)	capability, emergency management
Enhancing public information practice in Tasmania’s emergency services (TFS and SES)	Project		communities, emergency management
Planning and capability requirements for catastrophic and cascading events	Biblio	save (659.92 KB)	capability, emergency management, planning
The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (576.19 KB)	emergency management, resilience
Self-evacuation archetypes in Australian bushfire	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Experiences of Police and Emergency Services Employees with Workers’ Compensation Claims for Mental Health Issues	Biblio		emergency management, mental health, organisational
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational performance: Part four organisational performance research stream	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Model for assessing the vulnerability of Australian housing to windstorms - VAWS	Biblio	save (7.38 MB)	cyclone, emergency management, severe weather
Animal Welfare and Disasters	Biblio		animals, emergency management, resilience
Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain with applications in bushfire modelling	Biblio		emergency management, fire, physics
Flood vulnerability functions: detailed vs generalised approach	Biblio	save (1.65 MB)	emergency management, flood, modelling
Leadership in crisis: developing beyond command and control	Biblio	save (350.71 KB)	communication, 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
Enhancing learning in emergency services organisational work	Biblio		capability, decision making, emergency management
The value of disaster research	Project		economics, emergency management
We have not lived long enough: Sensemaking and learning from bushfire in Australia	Biblio		emergency management, governance, policy
Seismic assessment of reinforced concrete walls in Australia	Biblio		earthquake, emergency management, resilience
Evaluation of pre-intervention data: divergent thinking and brain plasticity	Biblio	save (526.36 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Are fire brigades liable for poor decisions?	Biblio		emergency management, governance, response
Diversity and inclusion: Building strength and capability	Biblio	save (511.1 KB)	capability, diversity and inclusion, emergency management
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
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
Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for flood proof buildings - annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (943.9 KB)	emergency management, engineering, flood
A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing	Biblio		emergency management, fire, savanna grasslands
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
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
Utilisation funding: South Australia stretch thinking project	Biblio	save (944.59 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Identifying lessons from exercising and training for emergency management decision-making	Biblio	save (731.34 KB)	capability, decision making, emergency management
Rhetoric or reality: Coordination in a time of crisis	Biblio	save (307.35 KB)	decision making, emergency management, governance
Organisational socialisation of volunteers in an emergency services agency	Biblio	save (564.04 KB)	emergency management, recruitment, volunteering
Preparing emergency services for operations in a climate-challenged world - summary report	Biblio	save (2.15 MB)	climate change, emergency management, governance
Vehicle‐related flood fatalities in Australia, 2001–2017	Biblio	save (2.97 MB)	emergency management, flood, warnings
Community engagement techniques toolkit	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	communities, emergency management, preparedness
Development of Capability Targets for the NSW Emergency Management Sector	Biblio	save (973.32 KB)	capability, emergency management
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity