Diaster Preparedness Research Papers

Doomed: The Science Behind Disasters offers readers insight into the underlying science explaining some the most significant and newsworthy disasters in the modern industrial and technological era. -- Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee... more

Unexpected events and abrupt changes have profound impacts on individuals, organizations and communities. L'Aquila, Carwoola, Katrina, and Kaikoura have become familiar words in the everyday life of some communities while others remain... more

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has come a long way in understanding the importance of gender diversity to our organisation. We recognise that our future defence capability will depend on recruiting the best people from all sectors of... more

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has come a long way in understanding the importance of gender diversity to our organisation. We recognise that our future defence capability will depend on recruiting the best people from all sectors of society. Women represent over 50 per cent of Australia’s population and we need to tap more effectively into this talent pool.

Initiatives over the past two decades have seen an increasingly successful integration of women into the three services. More recently, there has been a concerted effort to incorporate gender considerations into policies, training, planning and on operations. The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has been a critical guide in this learning process. I, and the ADF senior leaders, strongly support the Defence Implementation Plan (DIP), part of the Australian National Action Plan
on Women, Peace and Security 2012–2018. We are committed to fully integrating women and gender considerations into the ADF.

New policies and programs and senior leadership efforts are not enough to bring about the deep cultural change that is needed. The change we seek is not just about employing more women. We need to normalise WPS and incorporate its principle into our everyday decision making. In order to achieve this, all members of the ADF and those we work with in Defence need to understand WPS principles.

This publication aims to move past the theoretical by drawing together the real-life experiences, reflections and lessons of male leaders—from the ADF, the Australian Federal Police and civilians.

The publication was developed as a means to demonstrate, through practical example, how WPS can be incorporated into military or organisational planning to improve operational outcomes and achieve mission objectives. It demonstrates how good leadership is predicated on creative, responsive and inclusive thinking, and an ability to accept new ways of seeing the world.

I expect the publication will become a useful tool for those who seek to understand why we need to broaden our thinking within the ADF and to help us change the way we do business. WPS may be only one element of an evolving global landscape, but it is a most important one. By embracing WPS and its principles the ADF will continue to develop its capability and, importantly, will ensure we are better positioned to more effectively help the people and communities we serve.

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  Australian Civil-Military Centre
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  Military Science, Gender Studies, Comparative Politics, International Relations

When a crisis is unfolding, people no longer wait for an official statement from government actors; rather they turn to the news media, they go to Twitter or Facebook, they log onto forums and blogs, etc., because they expect information... more

Increasing globalization, increasing intense urbanization and climate changes have been linked to communities' hazards and disasters vulnerabilities reported across Africa. Less data and information are documented on national to community... more

Increasing globalization, increasing intense urbanization and climate changes have been linked to communities' hazards and disasters vulnerabilities reported across Africa. Less data and information are documented on national to community disaster risk workforce readiness and resilience capacity in emergency humanitarian crises interventions. The lack of coherent and integrated disaster risk analysis and preparedness, response and recovery programs implementation is a major challenged in the region for decades. This paper highlights natural and man-made emergency hazards and disasters nature and exposure, potential approaches in Africa context. Our findings showed that man-made disasters events were the most documented, uneven in their nature, pattern and trend of occurrence and exposure consequences over time. Emerging and re-emerging outbreaks (Cholera, Polio, HIV, Ebola, Influenza, Rift Valley fever and Meningitis) were the most common, followed by conflicts and hunger, floods and land-sliding disproportionately spread across Africa. We also documented differential inadequacies in effective community risk assessment to emergency management, weak community disaster risk knowledge and attitudes to poorly integrated mitigation and recovery strategies. Leveraging on digital and social media network platforms advances coupled with existing fire, emergency facilities and proven effective hazard/disaster response lessons learnt and experiences are resources in strengthening laboratory capacity and laboratory networks, scaling up proactive displaced people/refugee security and safety standards support and best practice. Strengthening the national Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SDRRF) stewardship and investment (2015-2030) implementation is crucial in improving evidence-based, robust, and effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) community-based programs, in ensuring emergency public health readiness and resilient response capacities and ownership strategies in Africa.

This paper represents a three-stage strategy for Lockheed Martin branch located within John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi; this strategy strives to enable the company to survive Hurricane Katrina which made landfall on August 29,... more

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