... socio-economic, cultural, regulatory or political forces that often drive the creation and transfer of risk. National leadership and co-ordination are key enablers. This paper shares Australia's progress in building an enabling environment for systemic disaster risk reduction, and specifically how...

...Rebecca Jones; Sarah Lee; Darryl Maybery; Alexander McFarlane Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the perspectives of local residents regarding the impact of the long-duration Hazelwood open cut coal mine fire in rural Australia. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach...

... service providers and 45 interviews with service providers, people experiencing homelessness and emergency services personnel. Of the 161 organisations who indicated their location, 159 were from Australia and 2 from New Zealand. The client groups with which surveyed agencies worked were diverse...

... behaviour. Originality/value – The study is original because no prior research has directed attention to Brisbane's CALD community responses to disasters. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Australia Flooding Brisbane Community leader Culturally and linguistically diverse...

...Yan Chang‐Richards; Suzanne Wilkinson; Regan Potangaroa; Erica Seville Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify resourcing challenges that face housing rebuild following the 2009 Victorian “Black Saturday” bushfires in Australia and to examine the impacts of resource shortages on longer...

... networks Learning Adaptability Emergency management Bushfire Fire Australia Researchers suggest that interactions between work groups result in important opportunities for learning during complex emergency events (Kapucu, 2006). During these events, emergency management operations take place...

... radios, fixed and mobile telephony, call centres, print media), while also identifying specific systemic shortcomings and barriers including the lack of common radio frequency usage by emergency services, remote area network failures (e.g. remote far north western Australia), rigid jurisdictional...

... of the state emergency service of New South Wales (Australia). Design/methodology/approach All local controllers of the state emergency service of New South Wales were surveyed by a mail‐out questionnaire as to their knowledge of cultural heritage and their attitudes to the protection of cultural heritage...

... in organisational systems. Two case studies of recent disasters in Australia are presented to provide illustrations of the complexity in socio‐technical systems and the hazards and risks that they harbour. Findings The paper finds that to progress, we need two things: better conceptual models and frameworks...

... organisation in Australia, and the rising importance of “clean” white‐collar work to emergency management. [f]ire fighters are not just fire fighters, but emergency workers who are expected to respond to almost any cry for “help” from the public. In addition to this emergency work, fire fighters are now...

... being placed on what fire‐fighters do when they are not involved in emergencies. In Australia, at any one time across a full‐time fire fighting organization it is likely that less than 10 per cent of available time is spent in emergency response, and more than 90 per cent is spent in non‐emergency...

...Alexander Kouzmin; Alan M. G. Jarman; Uriel Rosenthal Discusses the efficiency of disaster management policies and programmes in Australia. Argues that there are long‐standing deficiencies in strategic and operational planning and forecasting approaches. Urges more co‐operation and co‐ordination...

... for, and response to, natural hazards and disasters. Suggests that an understanding of responses at both levels is necessary for effective counter‐disaster action. Australia Disaster recovery Disasters Planning Stress © MCB UP Limited 1993 ...