Incident management in Australasia : lessons learnt from emergency responses / editor Stuart Ellis and Kent MacCarter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellis, Stuart, editor.

MacCarter, Kent, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency Management Australia.

Assistance in emergencies--Management.

Assistance in emergencies.

Assistance in emergencies--Australia--Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clayton South, Australia : CSIRO Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

History, issues and lessons from 10 notable fire, flood and emergency incidents throughout Australasia.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Fire catastrophe at Wangary on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

2. Incident management in Bundaberg during the 2013 Queensland floods

3. Responding to the Myer building fire in Hobart

4. The aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes, 2011

5. A highway cyanide spill at Tennant Creek

6. Firefighter entrapment during routine hazard reduction burn at Mount Kuring-Gai

7. Large petrochemical fire in Adelaide's industrial precinct

8. Thirty per cent of the entire state: Victorian floods, 2011

9. Thinking differently, leading differently: lessons from the Canberra fires, 2003

10. Bushfire around Linton township, Victoria.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 9, 2016).

ISBN:

9781486306190

1486306195

9781523109425

1523109424

9781486306183

1486306187

OCLC:

951223223