Occupational stress and health-related quality of life in South Australian urban professional firefighters Learning from adversity—Vitally important, difficult to attain The keys to providing assurance: Sharing responsibility and accepting accountability. The effects of hazard reduction burning on the fuel array in nature reserves and urban parks in the Australian Capital Territory Building New Zealand new migrants’ safety and post-disaster resilience Making sense of it all - Thoughts from a burnt out Training Director Learning from adversity: What has 75 years of bushfire inquiries (1939-2013) taught us? Fuel reduction burning is a common management practice in the Eucalyptus forests that extend across large areas of southern Australia. This study reports the findings from forty fuel reduction burns in these sites extended from warm temperate forests (Queensland) to cool temperate (Victoria) and included relatively dry forests (South Australia) and coastal Tasmania. Across this broad range of forests of widely differing productivity the percentage of mass loss from six fuel categories was remarkably consistent across the fuel reduction burns. The litter layer and shrub components generally accounted for more than 50% of fuels consumed while coarse and woody biomass contributed to 20-40% of fuels. The fate of coarse fuels has not been well quantified in Australian forests and these results signal the need to account for these fuels in future fire behaviour and emissions models. The current generation of these models relies on estimates of fine fuel categories only. Woody fuels generally smoulder for hours and days after fire with emissions dominated by the potent greenhouse gas methane, compared with fine fuel combustion that is dominated by CO2 emissions. The results of the study will allow fire managers to be more confident in the carbon balance outcomes of fuel reduction burning. They also open the possibility for better estimating fuel loads and their characteristics from relationships between forest net primary productivity (NPP), forest age and time since last fire. Reducing the risk of wildfire at a landscape scale is a top priority for fire-land managers in Australia and this research offers the prospect of generating more accurate fuel maps for use in fire prediction, fire management and emissions modelling, as well as understanding the impacts of climate variability on fuels. How much carbon is really lost in fuel reduction burning? Integrated disaster decision support system incorporating mitigation portfolio optimisation Cost-Effective Mitigation Strategy evelopment for Flood Prone Buildings How does local government (Union Parishad) promote disaster resilience and recovery? – A case study of linking social networks on the Bangladeshi coast FAST-card Disruption of critical infrastructure during prolonged natural disasters Critical Thinking:  The need for an explicit definition, teaching, and assessment model Developing a National Bushfire Predictive Services Capability. Resilience Is Not Recovery – Reflections about Marysville Post-Black Saturday. Black Saturday Five Years On – PTSD, Trauma and Support for Emergency Services Personnel. The Effect of a Split Sleep Schedules (6h-on/6h-off) on Neurobehavioural Performance and Sleepiness How safe is safe-enough? The impacts of ageing on the ability of fire services to maintain response capability when cohesive health and wellbeing programs are not employed. Understanding the implications of the Hazard and operating environment: An intelligence capability for emergency management decision-Makers Establishing deeper connections between urban planning and disaster risk reduction Tsunami Risk in NSW – An update on recent modelling and risk assessment. Environmental thresholds for dynamic fire propagation