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AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Volume 14

Issue One I Issue Two I Issue Three I Issue Four

Issue One

Autumn 1999

In this issue:

Integrating emergency services by Bob Mitchell

The Pacific Cities Project: a SOPAC regional initiative by Graham Shorten

From efficiency to risk sensitivity: reconstructing management capabilities after economic rationalism by Alexander Kouzmin & Nada Korac-Kakabadse

The problem - finding the problem: Canada's ice disasters lessons for Y2K by Joseph Scanlon

Simplifying disasters: developing a model for complex non-linear events by Charles Kelly

Shifts in emergency management service provision: a case for new innovative leadership by Robin Pagram

The Katherine-Daly flood disaster 1998 by Alan Skertchly & Kristen Skertchly

Observations on Tsunami disaster in Papua New Guinea by Phil Stenchion

Gender and earthquake preparedness: a research study of gender issues in disaster management: differences in earthquake preparedness due to traditional stereotyping or cognitive appraisal of threat? by Jean-Paul Mulilis

Emergency management & inter-agency management protocols by Pam Millican

Thredbo landslide recovery by Keith Dawe

Emergency & disaster legislation in Russia: the key development trends and features by Boris Porfiriev

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Issue Two

Winter 1999

In this issue:

Administrative law and response to emergencies by Roger Douglas

The Acute Stress Disorder Scale: a tool for predicting post-traumatic stress disorder by Richard Bryant

Redundancy as requirement: lessons from the 1997-98 Peruvian El Nino disasters by David McEntire

Improving the management of emergencies: Enhancing the ICS by Julian Yates

Community risk in Cairns: a multi-hazard risk assessment by Ken Granger, Trevor Jones, Marion Leiba & Greg Scott

The effects of tropical cyclone Vance on Exmouth by Greg Reardon, Geoff Boughton, David Henderson & John Ginger

Drought assessment: the 1997-98 El Nino drought in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands by Joe Barr

Counter-disaster planning in a paediatric hospital by Valerie Smyth

Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief (RedR) Australia and its work in Papua New Guinea and other places by Andrew Sinclair

The role of legislation in the advancement of community education Part 2: is exhortation the key? by Jeffrey Barnes

Leadership in emergency services by Julian Yates

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Issue Three

Spring 1999

In this issue:

'Ecological emergencies' and resource and environmental management by Stephen Dovers & Tony Norton

When is a fire an ecological emergency? by Ross A Bradstock & A Malcolm Giff

Ecological impacts of flood mitigation and drainage in coastal lowlands by Ian White, Lance Heath & Mike Melville

Assessing the risk associated with importing and keeping exotic vertebrates in Australia by Mary Bomford & Quentin Hart

Blue green algal blooms: a preventable emergency? by John Whittington

In remembrance: post-disaster rituals and symbols by Anne Eyre

Impact of landslides in Australia to June 1999 by Marion Michael-Leiba

Disasters as Heuristics - A case study by Simon Bennett

Managing volunteers by B W Howard AO MC

New thinking on disaster: the link between safety culture and risk-taking by C J Pitzer

Controlling crisis chaos by Ross Campbell

Media coverage of mass death: not always unwelcome by Joseph Scanion & Conrad McCullum

Using cyberspace to enhance disaster mitigation, planning and response: opportunities and limitations by Henry W. Fischer III

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Issue Four

Summer 1999/2000

In this issue:

Demographics and emergency management: knowing your stakeholders by Norman Ferrier

Managing change within the emergency services to ensure the long-term viability of volunteerism by Samantha Reinholtd

The response to the 'mother of all storms': a combat agency view by Chas Keys

The Sydney hailstorm: the insurance perspective by Christopher Henri

The Sydney hailstorm: the Victorian experience by Gareth Davis

The April 1999 Sydney hailstorm by Stephen Yeo, Roy Leigh & Ivan Kuhne

Stop propagating disaster myths by Claude de Ville de Goyet

Responding to mass casualty incidents in the rural setting: a case study by Jon Hodge & Malcolm Robertson

A Reconsideration of the Natural and Role of Resettlement Housing and Housing Materials in Natural Disaster Recovery in Indigenous Communities by Isoide Macatol & Joseph Rese

Traditional Aboriginal knowledge and sustained human survival in the face of severe natural hazards in the Australian monsoon region: some lessons from the past for today and tomorrow by Allan Skertchly & Kristen Skertchly

The age of accountability: future community involvement in disaster reduction by John Twigg

The experience of Traumatic Stress among urban firefighters by P.H. Barnes


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