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
Catastrophic and cascading events: planning and capability	Project		capability, emergency management, multi-hazard
Intelligent warnings: a twenty-first century approach to encouraging protective action in emergencies	Biblio	save (993.19 KB)	communities, emergency management, warnings
Preparing emergency services for operations in a climate-challenged world - summary report	Biblio	save (2.15 MB)	climate change, emergency management, governance
Effective Representation of River Geometry in Hydraulic Flood Forecast Models	Biblio	save (1.75 MB)	emergency management, flood, risk management
A formative evaluation of the Triple Zero Kids’ Challenge Teacher’s Guide	Biblio		child-centred, communication, emergency management
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications	Biblio		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
Vehicle‐related flood fatalities in Australia, 2001–2017	Biblio	save (2.97 MB)	emergency management, flood, warnings
Development of Capability Targets for the NSW Emergency Management Sector	Biblio	save (973.32 KB)	capability, emergency management
Get ready NSW- fostering all hazards resilience in local communities	Biblio	save (667.19 KB)	communities, emergency management, resilience
Sprinkler systems for the protection of buildings from wildfire	Biblio	save (19.97 MB)	emergency management, engineering, vulnerability
Optimising post-disaster recovery interventions in Australia: annual project report 2018-19	Biblio	save (790.52 KB)	emergency management, optimisation, risk management
Increasing emergency management capacity through business sector involvement	Biblio	save (503.1 KB)	emergency management, land management, risk management
Enhancing team performance	Biblio	save (501.37 KB)	capability, decision making, emergency management
Sleep and stress in on-call fire and emergency service workers	Project		emergency management
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
Using realistic disaster scenario analysis to understand natural hazard impacts and emergency management requirements	Project	save (0 bytes)	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
Collaboration in disasters: A cultural challenge for the utilities sector	Biblio		communication, emergency management
Assessing community resilience for emergencies in local government policy: summary	Biblio	save (461.41 KB)	communication, emergency management, resilience
Research proceedings from the 2018 Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and AFAC Conference	Biblio	save (15.24 MB)	emergency management, land management, multi-hazard
Prioritisation strategy for seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete buildings in Australia	Project		emergency management, engineering
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
Integrated response as a process for enhancing emergency management	Project		emergency management, resilience
Public information in the emergency services - literature review	Biblio	save (788.53 KB)	communication, emergency management
Opportunities and constraints identified in existing frameworks in use for organisational learning	Biblio	save (1.31 MB)	emergency management, organisational
Values and complexities in assessing strategic-level emergency management effectiveness	Biblio		capability, emergency management, response
Real people, real stories- if it’s flooded forget it	Biblio	save (767.2 KB)	communities, emergency management, flood
Giving voice to our givers: A phenomenological study addressing the perceptions of Rural Fire Service volunteers in Queensland	Project		emergency management, fire, volunteering
Activation of community fire units in the Blue Mountains during the October 2013 bushfires	Project		capability, communication, emergency management
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
Can major post-event inquiries and reviews contribute to lessons management?	Biblio		communication, emergency management
Collapse behaviour of limited ductile high-strength RC columns under multidirectional earthquake actions	Biblio		emergency management, engineering, infrastructure
Prevalence and predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviours among Australian police and emergency services employees	Biblio		emergency management, mental health, organisational
The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (576.19 KB)	emergency management, resilience
The southwest Tasmania fires of summer 2018-2019 - a post event review capability study	Biblio	save (9.33 MB)	capability, economics, emergency management
From research outcome to agency change: mapping a learning trajectory of opportunities and challenges	Biblio	save (421.2 KB)	decision making, emergency management, policy
The value of research from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC	Biblio	save (1.15 MB)	economics, emergency management
Safety awareness of firefighters and their perception of fire risks in cladding fires	Biblio	save (2.08 MB)	emergency management, fire impacts, firefighter
SES fit for task	Project		emergency management, recruitment, volunteering
Decision making, team monitoring and organisational performance: Part four organisational performance research stream	Biblio	save (791.82 KB)	decision making, emergency management, scenario analysis