Australian Journal of Emergency Management | AJEM

It is an honour to contribute to this edition of the Australian Journal of Emergency Management and I take this opportunity to acknowledge the incredible efforts of the many staff and volunteers in the disaster management, health, police and emergency service and other frontline sectors during these unparalleled times.

To say we are in challenging and complex times would indeed be an understatement. COVID-19 has tested us all with new variants, new restrictions and new challenges. It has also tested our thinking, our work practice, and our ways of life. We now find ourselves gearing up for the bushfire, storm and cyclone seasons in Australia with the concurrent threat of COVID-19.

Alistair Dawson APM
Inspector-General Emergency Management Queensland

News and views

Foreword view download250.4 KB view
Heat Smart: building resilience to heatwaves in Western Sydney view download463.9 KB view
Designing fire danger outlook products for climate timescales view download342.4 KB view
Evacuation centres are lifeboats, not cruise ships: managing expectations and prioritising improvements view download247.9 KB view
Bushfire resilience in the Great Southern, Western Australia view download251.9 KB view
Innovation hiding in plain sight: volunteer-driven case studies view download1.4 MB view
Protecting communities with better warnings and communications view download465.4 KB view
An integrated system to protect Australia from catastrophic bushfires view download870.4 KB view
EM-LINK sharing spatial data: an example of collaboration in emergency management view download225 KB view
An archetypal perspective on delaying evacuation view download531.9 KB view
Mental health and wellbeing in young adult fire and emergency service volunteers view download536.7 KB view
Book review: Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement view download250.8 KB view

Reports

Focusing post-disaster research methodology: reflecting on 50 years of post-disaster research view download560.9 KB view
Fighting to save an international icon – K’gari (Fraser Island) view download843.5 KB view

Research

Understanding skill decay and skill maintenance in first responders view download328.1 KB view
Boomerang volunteers in the Finnish Fire Service view download299.8 KB view
Experiences of heat stress while homeless on hot summer days in Adelaide view download345.6 KB view
Indigenous peoples and natural hazard research, policy and practice in southern temperate Australia: an agenda for change view download320.4 KB view
Pre-incident planning of fires in underground hard rock mines: old and new risks view download392 KB view
Perceptions of storm surges in north Queensland view download656 KB view
A systematic review of the emergency planning for flash floods response in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia view download745.8 KB view