A fundamental challenge for the emergency management sector when aiming to achieve 'safer sustainable communities’ is how to effectively engage the community. An 'engaged community' involved in the decision-making processes associated with emergency management activities is more likely to be responsive and self-managing when emergencies do arise.
Research found in this area of the site examines emergency service agencies and the communities understanding and attitudes towards fire safety for both wildfires and urban (residential) fires. The research covers community engagement and preparedness. This area also contains research relating to residential fire fatalities.
Items in Human Behaviour: Research and reports
- Know Your Patch to Grow Your Patch - February 2011
- Building Resilience: Engaging with rural communities about fire safety - December 2011
- Alcohol and Fire: A strategic review - December 2011
- Project Re-kindled - December 2011
- InFlame: Turning community emotion into fire safety action - August 2011
- Engaging Urban Communities in Fire Preparedness on Public Land - August 2011
- Putting Research into Practice: Developing bushfire safety messages for children - September 2010
- A Fire Learning Network: Cultivating local expressions of capacity - September 2010
- Community Bushfire Preparedness: What drives our decisions? - May 2010
- Project Kindle: Applying the Conversion Model to Changing At-risk Groups Attitudes Towards Fire Safety - December 2010
- Applying Social Psychology to Community Bushfire Safety - December 2010
- Is Generation Y a Threat to the Status Quo? Meeting the expectations of a multi-generational fire service - September 2009
- Briefing from the Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia - September 2009
- A Review of Existing Fire Safety in Homes - March 2009
- Planning and Evaluating Community Safety Programs - July 2009
- Accidental Fire Injuries - April 2009
- Living with Fire on the Land - September 2008
- Householder Bushfire Preparation: Decision making and the implications for risk communication - September 2008
- Engaging Communities in Preparedness for Wildfire Through Identifying Vulnerabilities and Capacities - September 2008
- Residents’ Responses to Wildland Fire Programs: A review of cognitive studies - September 2008
- Fire Alarm Complacency: The holistic design approach - September 2008
- Island Fires: A community planning the way forward - September 2008
- Lessons from the Australian Interface: Reconciling wildfire risk with biodiversity conservation objectives in a regulatory system and the role of community engagement programs - September 2008
- Fire Catchment Management Groups: The final stage - September 2008
- Tell 'em They're Dreamin': Is 'Stay Or Go' a good policy response to the wildfire risk? - September 2008
- Living With Fire on the Land: Local environmental knowledge for bushfire management in new rural landscapes - September 2008
- Children’s Perceptions of Bushfire Risk: Implications for education - September 2008
- ABC Local Radio: An emergency agency? - September 2008
- Metadata Analysis of the NZFS Commission Contestable Research Fund - September 2008
- 100 Years of Australian Civilian Bushfire Fatalities: Exploring the trends in relation to the 'stay or go policy' - May 2008
- Fiery Women: Consulting, designing, delivering and evaluating pilot women’s bushfire safety skills workshops - May 2008
- Householder Bushfire Preparation: Decision-making and the implications for risk communication - March 2008
- Household Preparedness for Communities - June 2008
- Glimpses of ‘Community’ Through the Lens of a Small Fire Event - February 2008
- Program Theory: Understanding community safety programs - August 2008
- Bushfire Risk Perception: Perspectives of children - April 2008
- Increasing Community Resilience to Bushfire- Implications from a North Queensland Community Case Study - May 2007
- Civilian Passenger Vehicle Burn Over Experimentation - March 2007
- Community Education, Awareness and Engagement Programs for Bushfire: An initial assessment of practices across Australia - June 2007
- Community Responses to Bushfires- The Role and Nature of Systems of Primary Sociality - 2007
- Mapping the Importance and Difficulty of Achieving Desired Community Safety Outcomes - November 2006
- Potential Health Impacts to Residents from Smoke Exposure During Bushfires - November 2006
- Fire Catchment Management Groups: Preliminary results - May 2006
- What Should Community Safety Programs for Bushfire Achieve? - May 2006
- A Program Logic Approach to Evaluating the Street FireWise Program in Blue Mountains, NSW - May 2006
- Where There's Smoke There's Fire, Isn't There? - May 2006
- Attack by Wildfire - March 2006
- Promoting Household and Community Preparedness for Bushfires - July 2006
- Educating Children about Bushfire Risk Management and Mitigation - August 2006
- Community Responses to Bushfire Threat: Risk perception and preparedness - August 2006
- Rural Resilience and Bushfires in East Gippsland - April 2006
- An Evaluation of the Street FireWise Community Education Program in the Blue Mountains New South Wales - October 2005
- Business FloodSafe: A toolkit for flood preparedness, response and recovery - May 2005
- Does Community Education Make a Difference? - March 2005
- Wildfires and Communities: Australasian perspectives - March 2005
- Wildfires and Communities: International perspectives - March 2005
- People and Property Safety - March 2005
- Living with Bushfire Risk - July 2005
- Positive Adaptation to Disaster and Traumatic Consequences- Resilience and Readiness - 2005
- Communities and Bushfire Hazard in Australia- More Questions than Answers - 2005
- Social Resilience to Bushfire Hazard - October 2004
- Why Dont They Listen when We Tell Them what to Do - May 2004
- Fires in the Home: Findings from the 2002/2003 British Crime Survey - February 2004
- Coping with Bushfires in East Gippsland - April 2004
- A Framework for Social Research Funded through the New Zealand Fire Service Research Fund - September 2003
- Strategy for Developing Greater Community Responsibility for Fire Safety and Prevention - August 2003
- The New Zealand Volunteer Fire Service in Three Rural Communities in Northland - March 2002
- Overview of Fire-related Mortality Data for New Zealand 1991-1997 - December 2002
- Work-related Fatal and Non-fatal Fire Injuries in New Zealand 1985-1999 - October 2001
- Cooking, Alcohol and Unintentional Fatal Fires in New Zealand Homes 1991-1997 - May 2001
- Fire Incidents Resulting in Deaths of New Zealanders Aged 65 and Older 1991-1997 - March 2001
- Analysis of Vehicle Fires Using the In-depth Fatal Accident Database - June 2001
- Interventions in Mäori House Fire Mortality Rates through Innovations in Healthy Mäori Housing Solutions - June 2001
- Fire Safety as an Interactive Phenomenon - February 2001
- Scoping a Social Marketing Programme for Fire Safety Research in the Community - April 2001
- Where in New Zealand Have Fatal Domestic Fire Occured? Descriptive analysis of data 1986 - 1998 - August 2000
- A Social Marketing Framework for the Development of Effective Public Awareness Programs - July 1999
- Community Analysis: Some considerations for disaster preparedness and response - May 1991
- How do you Improve Community Response to Warnings -
