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.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	Struggling to make sense of it all: the emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	Biblio		emergency management, fire, organisational
	Large damage bills to buildings from cyclones can be reduced by small actions	Biblio	save (507.42 KB)	cyclone, emergency management, resilience
	Modelling the impact of lifeline infrastructure failure during natural hazard events	Biblio	save (9.64 MB)	emergency management, environments, risk management
	Planning and capability requirements for catastrophic and cascading disasters	Biblio	save (1.4 MB)	capability, emergency management, multi-hazard
	Assessing the application and value of participatory mapping for community bushfire preparation	Biblio		communities, emergency management, local knowledge
	Valuing non-market economic impacts from natural hazards	Biblio	save (736.18 KB)	economics, emergency management, risk management
	Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of recommendations	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
	Enhancing team performance	Biblio	save (501.37 KB)	capability, decision making, emergency management
	Risky business: Why diversity and inclusion matter	Biblio	save (2.31 MB)	diversity and inclusion, emergency management
	Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management	Biblio		decision making, emergency management, multi-hazard
	Improving Fire Behaviour Data Obtained from Wildfires	Biblio		emergency management, fire impacts, fire severity
	Embedding non-technical skills as part of core business in emergency management - Final project report Part A	Biblio	save (493.6 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis
	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
	Diversity and inclusion framework for emergency management policy and practice	Biblio	save (1.69 MB)	diversity and inclusion, emergency management, policy
	Evidence to support incident management team capability	Biblio	save (146.37 KB)	communication, emergency management, multi-hazard
	Breakdowns in coordinated decision making at and above the incident management team level: An analysis of three large scale Australian wildfires	Biblio		decision making, emergency management
	Detecting active fires from space using Himawari-8: a report from the regional New South Wales trial	Biblio	save (1.01 MB)	emergency management, fire impacts, planning
	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
	Values and complexities in assessing strategic-level emergency management effectiveness	Biblio		capability, emergency management, response
	Transformative scenarios in a climate challenged world - research methodology for scenario development	Biblio	save (4.32 MB)	climate change, emergency management, governance
	Experiences in the in-field utilisation of fuels3D	Biblio	save (601.76 KB)	emergency management, fire, fuel reduction
	Using realistic disaster scenario analysis to understand natural hazard impacts and emergency management requirements: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (824.12 KB)	emergency management, multi-hazard, scenario analysis
	Business involvement in disaster management	Biblio	save (1.19 MB)	capability, emergency management, multi-hazard
	Discussion paper: Learning for emergency services, looking for a new approach	Biblio	save (2.34 MB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
	The Hawaii nuclear alert: how did people respond?	Biblio	save (537.88 KB)	emergency management, response, warnings
21 Oct 2016	Learning lessons from, and about, post disaster inquiries	Blog		decision making, emergency management, policy
08 Jan 2020	‘I can still picture the faces’: Black Saturday firefighters want you to listen to them, not call them ‘heroes’	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
13 Feb 2017	Community at the top of the list all over the world	Blog		emergency management, land management, prescribed burning
18 Apr 2019	Coexisting with combustion: the future of bushfire management	Blog		emergency management, fire impacts, indigenous communities
28 Jun 2019	Six years done and the main game is to use the research	Blog		communities, emergency management, warnings
11 Mar 2016	Expedited ethics review of time-critical research	Blog		emergency management, planning, policy
15 Feb 2018	Independent performance review of the CRC	Blog		communication, emergency management, multi-hazard
05 Apr 2016	Utilisation the real challenge	Blog		emergency management, non-traditional recruitment, volunteering
16 Dec 2019	Australia needs a national crisis plan, and not just for bushfires	Blog		emergency management, multi-hazard, policy
13 May 2015	On show in Chicago	Blog		communication, emergency management, volunteering
19 Mar 2019	Learning the media game	Blog		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
23 Mar 2016	How are mapping technologies impacting emergency management?	Blog		communities, emergency management, local knowledge
22 Aug 2019	15 years of CRC and AFAC conference partnership	Blog		decision making, emergency management, fire
06 Jun 2016	Our communities are central to our communication	Blog		communication, communities, emergency management
25 Jul 2017	Going somewhere?	Blog		emergency management, multi-hazard