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
The interaction between firefighting boot design and lower body injury risk at work	Biblio	save (587.38 KB)	emergency management, optimisation, volunteering
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
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
The value of disaster research	Project		economics, emergency management
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
A Review of Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster Management	Biblio		communication, emergency management, volunteering
Diversity and inclusion: Building strength and capability	Biblio	save (511.1 KB)	capability, diversity and inclusion, emergency management
Research proceedings from the 2016 Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and AFAC conference	Biblio	save (3.51 MB)	emergency management, land management, multi-hazard
Economics of Natural Hazards Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (1.21 MB)	emergency management, environments, multi-hazard
Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for flood proof buildings - annual report 2018-2019	Biblio	save (943.9 KB)	emergency management, engineering, flood
Disaster management: building resilient systems to aid recovery - non peer reviewed extended abstract	Biblio	save (526.07 KB)	emergency management, resilience
Bushfire and natural hazard training for Northern Australia: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (742.18 KB)	emergency management, multi-hazard, response
Salivary cortisol profiles of on-call from home fire and emergency service personnel	Biblio		emergency management, mental health
No ordinary call: factors predicting fire communication officers' job strain and well-being	Biblio	save (978.68 KB)	capability, emergency management, resilience
Resolving future fire management conflicts using multi-criteria decision making	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
Stretch‐Thinking Loops: A New Technique for Scenario Planning	Biblio		emergency management, organisational, scenario analysis
Community engagement techniques toolkit	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	communities, emergency management, preparedness
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance	Biblio	save (414.7 KB)	emergency management, fire, fire severity
Non‐technical skills for emergency incident management teams: A literature review	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, organisational
Optimising post-disaster recovery interventions in Australia: annual project report 2018-19	Biblio	save (790.52 KB)	emergency management, optimisation, risk management
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
Large damage bills to buildings from cyclones can be reduced by small actions	Biblio	save (507.42 KB)	cyclone, emergency management, resilience
Animal emergency management in South Australia: a case study of the Sampson Flat bushfire	Biblio		animals, communities, emergency management
Sleep and stress in on-call fire and emergency service workers	Project		emergency management
Diversity and inclusion: towards a better understanding of management and measurement - policy paper	Biblio	save (1.14 MB)	capability, diversity and inclusion, emergency management
Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of recommendations	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
Where do we put our dollars? Economic analysis of different bushfire management options in Western Australia	Biblio	save (391.13 KB)	economics, emergency management, fire
Using realistic disaster scenario analysis to understand natural hazard impacts and emergency management requirements	Project	save (0 bytes)	emergency management, modelling, scenario analysis
Disaster Resilient Communities: Engagement with Spontaneous Volunteer Groups	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	communities, emergency management, volunteering
Collaboration in disasters: A cultural challenge for the utilities sector	Biblio		communication, emergency management
Improving Fire Behaviour Data Obtained from Wildfires	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
Integrated response as a process for enhancing emergency management	Project		emergency management, resilience
Evidence to support incident management team capability	Biblio	save (146.37 KB)	communication, emergency management, multi-hazard
Retrofitting of a high-set Queensland house for wind loading	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	cyclone, emergency management, vulnerability
Public information in the emergency services - literature review	Biblio	save (788.53 KB)	communication, emergency management
Activation of community fire units in the Blue Mountains during the October 2013 bushfires	Project		capability, communication, emergency management
Experiences in the in-field utilisation of fuels3D	Biblio	save (601.76 KB)	emergency management, fire, fuel reduction