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 two decision making research stream	Biblio	save (1.45 MB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
A modified Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia (2015) scenario: wind and storm tide hazards and impacts	Biblio	save (1.64 MB)	emergency management, modelling, scenario analysis
When policy, politics and emergency management collide: managing coordination in crises	Biblio	save (307.28 KB)	emergency management, governance, policy
Preparing emergency services for operations in a climate-challenged world - summary report	Biblio	save (2.15 MB)	climate change, emergency management, governance
Increasing residents’ preparedness and planning for natural hazards : annual project report 2017-18	Biblio	save (674.96 KB)	communication, emergency management, planning
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
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
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
Optimising emergency services resourcing: informing SAFECOM's capability planning	Project		capability, communication, emergency management
Identifying and resolving coordinated decision making breakdowns in emergency management	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
We have not lived long enough: Sensemaking and learning from bushfire in Australia	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
Advances in the remote sensing of active fires: a review	Biblio	save (1.79 MB)	emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Beyond Binary: (Re)Defining “Gender” for 21st Century Disaster Risk Reduction Research, Policy, and Practice	Biblio	save (766.4 KB)	communities, diversity and inclusion, emergency management
The Hawaii nuclear alert: how did people respond?	Biblio	save (537.88 KB)	emergency management, response, warnings
Assessing the application and value of participatory mapping for community bushfire preparation	Biblio		communities, emergency management, local knowledge
Risky business: Why diversity and inclusion matter	Biblio	save (2.31 MB)	diversity and inclusion, emergency management
Collapse behaviour of limited ductile high-strength RC columns under multidirectional earthquake actions	Biblio		emergency management, engineering, infrastructure
Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for building related earthquake risk: progress report on economic loss modelling	Biblio	save (1.16 MB)	decision making, earthquake, emergency management
Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of recommendations	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, multi-hazard
Principles for enhanced collaboration between land and emergency management agencies and Indigenous peoples - green paper	Biblio	save (1.61 MB)	emergency management, indigenous communities, land management
Disaster Resilient Communities: Engagement with Spontaneous Volunteer Groups	Biblio	save (1.05 MB)	communities, emergency management, volunteering
Vulnerability of buildings and civil infrastructure to tropical cyclones: A preliminary review of modelling approaches and literature	Biblio	save (1.74 MB)	emergency management, modelling, scenario analysis
Follow up of study participants: brain plasticity and divergent thinking	Biblio	save (781.71 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Improving Fire Behaviour Data Obtained from Wildfires	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
Challenges of Measuring Emergency Management Performance Under Adversity: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Conference Paper 2014	Biblio	save (594.66 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
Assessing community resilience for emergencies in local government policy: summary	Biblio	save (461.41 KB)	communication, 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
The effect of working on-call from home on salivary cortisol in fire and emergency service personnel	Biblio		capability, emergency management, optimisation
Experiences in the in-field utilisation of fuels3D	Biblio	save (601.76 KB)	emergency management, fire, fuel reduction
Discussion paper: Learning for emergency services, looking for a new approach	Biblio	save (2.34 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
Improved predictions of extreme sea levels around Australia	Biblio	save (3.75 MB)	emergency management, risk management, storm surge
How emergency services organisations can – and do – utilise research	Biblio		communication, decision making, emergency management
The challenges of managing animals and their owners in disasters: perspectives of Australian response organisations and stakeholders	Biblio	save (411.01 KB)	animals, communication, emergency management
Self-evacuation archetypes in Australian bushfire	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Whole of Government: the Solution to Managing Crises?	Biblio		emergency management, governance, policy
Priorities to guide hazards research	Biblio	save (731.17 KB)	emergency management, multi-hazard, risk management