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Download Issue Australian Journal of EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Volume 31, No. 4, October 2016 ISSN: 1324 1540 Redefining heatwave NEWS AND VIEWS RESEARCH RESEARCH REPORTS, REVIEWS UNDERSTANDING BUILDING CYCLONE AND UPDATES STRATEGIC RISK RESILIENCE PAGES 5–15 PAGE 16 PAGE 24 Australian Journal of Emergency Management Vol. 31, No. 4, October 2016 Circulation ISSN: 1324 1540 Approximate circulation (print and electronic): 5500. About the Journal Copyright The Australian Journal of Emergency Management is Articles in the Australian Journal of Emergency Management Australia’s premier journal in emergency management. are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Its format and content are developed with reference Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence that allows reuse subject to peak emergency management organisations and only to the use being non-commercial and to the article the emergency management sectors—nationally being fully attributed (creativecommons.org/licenses/by- and internationally. The Journal focuses on both the nc/4.0). academic and practitioner reader. Its aim is to strengthen capabilities in the sector by documenting, growing and © Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience 2016. disseminating an emergency management body of knowledge. The Journal strongly supports the role of the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) as a national centre of excellence for knowledge and skills development in the emergency management Submissions sector. Papers are published in all areas of emergency The Australian Journal of Emergency Management management. The Journal encourages empirical reports welcomes submissions. The Contributors’ Guidelines are but may include specialised theoretical, methodological, available at ajem.infoservices.com.au/page/about. In case study and review papers and opinion pieces. The brief, contributions should be no longer than 3000 words, views in the Journal are not necessarily the views of the be submitted as a Word file and contain photographs, Australian Government, AIDR or AIDR’s partners. graphs and tables in their original software applications as separate files. Publisher All articles must contain an abstract and a small The Australian Journal of Emergency Management biographical paragraph about each author. A Copyright is published by the Australian Institute for Disaster Release form and the Editorial Policy are available on Resilience – a partnership between the Australian the website. Authors should familiarise themselves with Government Attorney-General’s Department, the Bushfire the Journal before making a submission. Contributions and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, the should be forwarded electronically to [email protected]. Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities All research articles are peer reviewed. The Australian Council, and the Australian Red Cross. The Journal is Journal of Emergency Management is indexed by several published online at ajem.infoservices.com.au. indexing organisations throughout the world. Editor-in-chief Subscriptions Dr Michael Rumsewicz, Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC For new subscriptions please visit us online at ajem.infoservices.com.au/member/new. Editorial Committee Changes to current subscription details can be made at ajem.infoservices.com.au/member. John Bates, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience David Bruce, Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC Luke Brown, Attorney-General’s Department Contact Us Mail: Australian Journal of Emergency Management Editorial Team Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Level 1, 340 Albert Street Managing Editor: Christine Belcher EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 Design, typesetting and production: Biotext Email: [email protected] Print and distribution: CanPrint Phone: +61 3 9419 2388 Cover image: Boulia Shire Council Mayor Rick Britton with his thermometer showing a temperature of 48 degrees Celcius on his property near Boulia, Queensland. Image: Liam Kidston, Newspix, 2 January 2014. 2 Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Contents News and views Research Foreword Owning the future: risk ownership and Dr Michael Rumsewicz 4 strategic decision-making for natural hazards Disaster risk management should be an Celeste Young, Roger N. Jones 16 integral part of economic planning Robert Glasser 5 Building community cyclone resilience through academic and insurance industry Reducing future risk starts now: partnership integrated planning could hold the key to Jon Harwood, Dr Daniel J. Smith, Dr David Henderson 24 Australia’s mitigation of disasters Nathan Maddock 6 The Excess Heat Factor as a metric for heat-related fatalities: defining heatwave Churchill Fellowship: media images and risk categories imitative behaviour in disasters Dr Thomas Loridan, Lucinda Coates, Philip Campbell 9 Dr Daniel Argüeso, Dr Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Professor John McAneney 31 Teaching resilience An assessment of the opportunities to Hansika Bhagani 10 improve strategic decision-making in emergency and disaster management AIDR adds to disaster resilience body of knowledge Dr Benjamin Brooks, Steven Curnin, Chris Bearman, Dr Christine Owen, Sophia Rainbird 38 Amanda Lamont 11 Evaluating resilience in two remote EMPA: Disaster Communications Indigenous Australian communities Conference, New Zealand Philip Morley, Jeremy Russell-Smith, Rebecca Riggs 12 Kamaljit K. Sangha, Stephen Sutton, Dr Bev Sithole 44 Disasters and Social Resilience: Can agencies promote bushfire resilience a bioecological approach using art-based community engagement? Michael Tarrent 13 Richard Phillips, Angela Cook, Holly Schauble, Dr Matthew Walker 51 AUSVETPLAN turns 25 Dr Francette Geraghty-Dusan 14 Helping fire-impacted families in rebuilding: toward enhanced community Emergency Management Liaison Officer resilience outcomes training Emilis Prelgauskas 56 Ian Carlton 15 Can place attachment mediate perceptions of bushfire risk? A case study of the Blue Mountains, NSW Charishma Ratnam, Dr Danielle Drozdzewski, Dr Rosalie Chapple 62 Contributions in the Research section of the Australian Journal of Emergency Management are peer-reviewed to appropriate academic standards by independent, qualified reviewers. 2 Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Foreword Dr Michael Rumsewicz, Editor-in-Chief, Australian Journal of Emergency Management Heatwave deaths outnumber the combined total of deaths from all other natural hazards across Australia. With the Australian severe weather season rapidly approaching, it is timely to publish two papers in this edition of the Australian Journal of Emergency Management that discuss advances in characterising heatwaves and attempts to forecast their potential impacts. This heatwave focus introduces a selection of papers The full range of Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC from the recent Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC Research Forum papers from AFAC16 is online at Research Forum of the AFAC16 annual conference. The www.bnhcrc.com.au. Papers from the AFAC16 conference theme, ‘Mitigation – Response – Recovery: conference ‘Mitigation – Response – Recovery: Getting Getting the Balance Right’ highlights the need to better the balance right’ are available at www.afac.com.au/ understand how the interactions between community, events/proceedings. business and government affect disaster resilience, And finally, a reminder that this will be the last edition of and, ultimately, the long-term social and financial cost the Journal to be distributed free of charge as a printed of disasters. version. Online access to the Journal will continue to be Robert Glasser’s opinion piece provides an excellent provided at no cost to email subscribers and through overview to the theme, highlighting the estimated the website. To continue to receive printed copies of the $9 billion annual social and economic cost of disasters Journal you can subscribe to future print issues through in Australia and why the Sendai Framework for Disaster the AJEM website (ajem.infoservices.com.au). If you Risk Reduction includes specific targets for reducing would prefer to receive the free email alert for the online damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic edition so that you don’t miss out, you can subscribe to services and economic losses. email alerts at https://www.aidr.org.au/publications/ the-australian-journal-of-emergency-management Research articles in this edition span the mitigation, response and recovery spectrum, examining issues Dr Michael Rumsewicz such as risk ownership and public-private partnerships, Editor-in-Chief understanding and evaluating resilience, enhancing community engagement, improving decision-making Australian Journal of Emergency Management during disasters, and re-building after major bushfires. Australian Institute of Disaster Resilience Bushfire and Natural Hazard CRC 4 Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Australian Journal of Emergency Management • Volume 31, No. 4, October 2016 5 News and views Disaster risk management should be an integral part of economic planning By Robert Glasser, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Research carried out on behalf of the Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience earlier this year showed that over $450 million was spent annually by the Australian government on restoring essential public infrastructure following extreme weather events between 2002 and 2011. In other words, that is around 1.6 per cent of total spending on public infrastructure.
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