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NSW Rural Fire Service Library

New books, articles and reports in your library this month

This month’s new additions include articles from the latest Crisis Response magazine, articles on smoke management, mental health, emergency management, and drones.

Contact your librarian Katie to borrow any of the books or to request articles at [email protected]

Emergency Services’ Magazines Online

Many of the Australian and International Emergency Services publish their own magazines, not only as hardcopies that are posted to their members, but also online.

These include the Bush Fire Bulletin, our very own official journal of the NSW Rural Fire Service, the Victorian CFA Brigade magazine, 24seven the official magazine of the WA Department of Fire and Emergency Services, NSW Fire & Rescue News, and the Tasmanian Fire Service publish Fireground Magazine

A more comprehensive list of journals and magazine titles is detailed on our library website.

FIRE INCIDENTS – AUSTRALIAN NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Wildlife conservation in farm landscapes Experiences of sheltering during the Black Saturday (eBook) bushfires: Implications for policy and research (Journal This CSIRO richly illustrated publication article) communicates new scientific information International Journal of Disaster Risk about best practice ways to integrate conservation and Reduction, Volume 23, August 2017 agriculture in the temperate eucalypt woodland belt of More than half of those who died in the 2009 Black eastern Australia. Whilst promoted as being available Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, were to borrow several months back, it is now also available sheltering inside a house at the time of their death. This as an eBook. marks a shift in bushfire fatality trends, which This title link allows NSW RFS Staff to open the eBook previously saw most fatalities occurring outside while directly when at work. Volunteers and for those wishing residents attempted to protect assets or evacuate. This to use the eBooks at home, please contact the library paper presents findings from research that examined for a password-embedded link. people's experiences of sheltering in and exiting Australian Geographic (Online magazine) houses, sheds, personal shelters and other structures May-Jun 2017 on Black Saturday Articles include Australian riflebirds, Australia’s Please contact the library to request a copy of this tropical north, the Tasmanian Tiger, and the Federation article. Peak in Tasmania. For access to our online magazine collection please contact the library for login credentials. FIRE INCIDENTS – INTERNATIONAL

Why Some Homes Survived: Learning from the Fort MENTAL HEALTH McMurray Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Disaster (Canadian online report) Grand challenges : Mental health podcast Alan Westhaver, Institute for Catastrophic Loss April, 2017 nature podcast Each week Nature publishes a free audio Reduction, 2017 show. In this episode, mental health disorders touch The wildland/urban interface disaster that struck Fort rich and poor, young and old, in every country around McMurray, Alberta in May 2016 destroyed more than the world. Hear three experts discuss the evidence for 2,400 structures. It is the largest ever insured loss in interventions, how to get help to the right people, and Canada. When the damage extent became apparent, which challenge, if solved, would help the most. the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction sought Please use this Nature link to listen to the podcast. permission for on-site access and tasked the author Psychosocial preparedness: Soft skills in with conducting an investigation to answer the vital disasters (Journal article) question: ‘Why did some homes survive this Crisis Response Journal, Vol 12(3), May wildland/urban interface fire with little or no damage, 2017 while others were vulnerable to ignition and Belinda Ekornås and Nils Petter Reinholdt describe the destroyed?’ features of their work in psychosocial preparedness, Please use this ICRL website link to read the report. including a new learning portal and lessons learnt from the interdisciplinary collaboration involved A review of the 2016 Horse River Please contact the library to request a copy of this wildfire: Alberta Agriculture and article. Forestry preparedness and response (Online US Report) First responder well-being following the 2011 Government of Alberta, 2017 Canterbury earthquake (Journal article) This review considers the environmental Disaster Prevention and Management: An International conditions leading up to and during the Horse River Journal, Vol. 26(3) wildfire that started on 1 May 2016 outside Fort The role of first responders in mitigating the effects of McMurray, Alberta, evaluates the readiness and level earthquakes is vital. Unlike other disasters, of preparedness prior to its occurrence, and evaluates earthquakes are not single events, and exposure to the response of the Alberta Agriculture and Forestry dangerous and trauma-inducing events may be department. ongoing. Understanding how first responders cope in Please use this PreventionWeb website link to read the the face of such conditions is important, for both report. their own well-being as well as the general public whom they serve. Please contact the library to request a copy of this DISASTERS AND EMERGENCY article. NSW RFS Staff may use this Emerald link to MANAGEMENT access the article at work.

Emergency Management Australia Gender, place and mental health recovery in Podcast, Episode 22 disasters: Addressing issues of equality and difference 18 May, 2017 Attorney-General's (Journal article) Department International Journal of Disaster Risk In EMA Podcast, they chat to SES volunteer Daniel Reduction, Volume 23, August 2017 Philippa who is an alpine search and rescue operator in UK and wider EU governments follow gender neutral Australia’s Snowy Mountains. Peter catches up with Dr policies in their disaster planning and management Patricia Watson. Dr Watson is a senior educational based upon a misconception that the gender gap has specialist with the national centre of post-traumatic been eliminated. Findings from this quantitative and stress disorder in the USA. They discuss the qualitative research challenges this notion, revealing psychological effects of disasters and how they affect that disasters can have paradoxically equal and yet our community. differentiated gendered impacts. The findings highlight Please use this EMA Podcast link to listen to the some of the more subtle ways that disasters discussion. differentially impacted women and men. Please contact the library to request a copy of this HAZMAT guide for first responders (eBook) article. Only available as an eBook, the goal of this US published book is to help train hazmat Mental Health and You - our library's collection. response teams and other responders in A drop down list of a selection of books that focus disaster training, techniques, and planning. on the topic of mental health is found on the library The book will also help define and sharpen training homepage under Lists or by using this link. plans and assumptions. Focusing on lessons learned Contact the library to borrow any of these books. from real-world experiences during actual disasters, the book will help to establish a well-trained professional 1st responder, individuals, and teams. This title link allows NSW RFS Staff to open the eBook LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT directly when at work. Volunteers and for those wishing to use the eBooks at home, please contact the Leadership in the open : a new paradigm in library for a password-embedded link. emergency management (Book) Providing a roadmap for twenty-first Stepping up online crisis response century emergency management best (Journal article) practices, Adam Crowe examines public expectations Crisis Response Journal, Vol 12(3), May relative to the use of communication and Web 2.0 2017 technologies for emergency management activities. It Tim Lloyd says that, although some frontline emergency covers current technologies along with the public’s services have made great strides to harness the world demand for transparency and ever-increasing need for of digital communication, a wide gap in preparedness instant information and updates. for crisis communications still exists across a wide Please contact the library to borrow this book. cross-section of government departments and agencies. Beyond command and control : leadership, culture, Please contact the library to request a copy of this and risk (Book) article. This book will advance the understanding of Monitoring with drones during a major emergency leadership beyond the inherited myths (Journal article) and modalities of command and Advances in Environmental Sciences. 2017, Vol. 9 (1) control. Leadership is separated from The monitoring of the consequences of a major ideas and institutional seniority and incident spreading in the territory is one of the most explained as the collaborative power of one with important actions. The use of Unmanned Aerial others. Systems (UAS), commonly known as Drones, is Please contact the library to borrow this book. excellent for many of the essential monitoring functions, both from a visual and from an analytical point of view. They provide spectral analysis detection Step up your teamwork (Book) systems and lasers to avoid exposing personnel working The latest book by Frank Viscuso (the in the emergency to possible risks. The technological library also holds his book Step up and evolution reached enables monitoring missions to be lead) promises to teach how to create set directly from a laptop and to receive information momentum, prepare for success, prevent collapse, and directly via an extremely reliable, safe connection. turn a group of individuals into a high-functioning Please contact the library to request a copy of this team. The book discusses various proven firefighting team-building methods you can implement article. NSW RFS Staff may use this EBSCO link to immediately. access the article at work. Please contact the library to borrow this book.

Due to its popularity, more copies of AIIMS 4 (the The role of volunteer organizations in leadership fourth edition of The Australasian Inter-service skill development (Journal article) Incident Management System: A Management Journal of Management Development, Vol. 36(5) System for any Emergency) have been purchased The purpose of this paper is to explore the and are now available in the library to borrow. concept of service learning and the use of volunteer organisations as a means for members to learn and hone leadership skills that can be SMOKE MANAGEMENT transferred to their full-time corporate positions. Please contact the library to request a copy of this Air quality policy and fire management article. responses addressing smoke from wildland fires in the United States and Good enough leadership: realism without cynicism Australia (Journal article) (Journal article) International Journal of Wildland Fire. Volume 26(5) International Journal of Public Leadership, 2017 2017 For more than seventy years, leaders of all types have Wildland fire emissions degrade air quality and consistently struggled to earn the respect and visibility, having adverse economic, health and visibility impacts at large spatial scales globally. Here, the followership of others to earn the employee trust authors review the air quality regulatory framework in which is the key to innovation and competitive the United States, comparing this framework with that advantage and to create organizational systems and of Australia. In the United States, wildland fire cultures that fit their strategic objectives. This paper management and air quality policies have evolved addresses what would be “good enough” leadership independently, yet interact to meet diverse public qualities. needs. Australian policy development is more recent Please contact the library to request a copy of this and decentralised. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article. NSW RFS Staff may use this Emerald link to article. access the article at work.

Smoke from wildfires can have lasting climate impact (Online news COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT blog) Georgia Institute of Technology, May Understanding youth disaster recovery: The vital role 2017 of people, places, and activities (Journal article) Researchers have found that carbon particles released International Journal of Disaster Risk into the air from burning trees and other organic Reduction, Volume 22, June 2017 matter are much more likely than previously thought to Although there is growing interest in the vulnerabilities travel to the upper levels of the atmosphere, where and capacities of youth who have experienced disaster, they can interfere with rays from the sun -- sometimes research focusing on their lived experiences during the cooling the air and at other times warming it. recovery period remains sparse. Youth stories revealed Please use this Science Daily website to read the article key people, places, and activities that supported their online. recovery, and the mechanisms through which those supports had a positive impact. A multi-region analysis of factors that influence public acceptance of smoke from different fire sources Please contact the library to request a copy of this (Journal article) article. International Journal of Wildland Fire. Volume 26(5) 2017 Building resilient communities: Working The authors explore public acceptance of smoke from with the community sector for enhanced several types of fires. We found the public is generally emergency management (Online report) accepting of smoke, but acceptance varies by fire type. Victorian Council of Social Service A sizable minority does not accept smoke. Perceptions (VCOSS), 2017 of smoke-related health and non-health risks This publication highlights the role of the emergency influenced acceptance of smoke from all fire types. management sector in fostering community resilience Please contact the library to request a copy of this as a way of helping communities prepare for, respond article. to and recover from natural disasters and emergency events, with examples from communities in the state of Victoria in Australia. Please use this VCOSS link to read the report online. LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT Community participation in emergency planning: NSW Making collaboration work – developing State Emergency Service case study (Journal article) boundary work and boundary awareness in Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Vol 32 emergency exercises (Journal article) (2), April 2017 Journal of Workplace Learning, Volume There is growing recognition within the Australian emergency management sector of the need to engage 29(4), 2017 communities as core partners, where they are This study aims to investigate how boundary considered equals in risk-related decision-making work is carried out at the incident site during processes that affect them (Attorney-General’s exercises with police, ambulance and rescue Department 2013). There is, however, little guidance services, and how boundary awareness is available to practitioners about how best to involve developed based on this boundary work. communities in risk reduction processes and little Collaboration in emergency work is challenging evidence on which to build approaches. Please use this AJEM link to read the article online. on many levels. The unforeseen and temporary nature of incidents presents basic challenges. Another important challenge is boundaries between specialised and autonomous emergency EMPLOYMENT service organisations. Please contact the library to request a copy of this Welcome to the caring generation?: Why graduates article. are looking to the ethics of an employer, and not the perks (Journal article) Human Resource Management International Digest, RISK MANAGEMENT Vol 25 (3), 2017 For many undergraduates about to be unleashed onto

the world of employment, one would imagine they Futures Greater Adelaide 2050: An exploration of will have fairly standard ideas of the kind of employer disaster risk and the future (Online report) they would like to work for. This paper aims to review BNHCRC, 2017 the latest management developments across the globe This report documents the second phase of Greater and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge Adelaide's "Decision Support System (DSS) for research and case studies. Assessment of Policy & Planning Investment Options Please contact the library to request a copy of this for Optimal Natural Hazard Mitigation” project, article. which incorporated the development of exploratory scenarios to better understand relevant uncertainties, develop strategic capacity in decision makers to consider uncertainties impacting on policies, and GENERAL INTEREST provide a better understanding of the value and use of the developed DSS. Report of the independent review into Please use this BNHCRC link to read the report online. the Tasmanian Floods of June and July 2016: Shared responsibility, resilience The risk landscape for 2017 (Journal and adaptation (Online report) article) Department of Premier and Cabinet of Crisis Response Journal, Vol 12(3), May the Tasmanian State Government, 2017 2017 This report is the result of the decision to undertake a Roger Gomm discusses the World strategic review into the Tasmanian Floods of June and Economic Forum’s ‘Global Risks Report’ for 2017, which July 2016 that affected many Tasmanian communities focuses attention on the evolution of global risks and and businesses. the deep interconnections between them, finding that Please use the Tasmanian DPAC link to read this report environment-related risks figure highly on the risk online. landscape. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article. CASA launches drone safety app (News article) Flight Safety Australia News, May 2017 Just want to fly your drone without endangering anyone or breaking any laws? VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT CASA now has an app to help you. Please use the FSA News link to read this article online. How do we stop volunteer emergency service workers quitting? (Online article) The Conversation, April 4 2017 Emergency services in Australia are struggling to hold onto their volunteer staff. In New South Wales, for example, only half of the 1,700 volunteers who join the State Emergency Service are still active members a year later. In Western Australia, the overall yearly turnover is 12-18% and rising. This represents a serious drain on the sector. Please use The Conservation link to read this article online.

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