Risk assessment analogues in hazard management

Peter Wieske of ANU focused his PhD on the history, present shape and future possibilities of ‘Complex Unbounded Problems’, or major disruptive events of a natural, political, economic, technological or military origin. The main area of investigation has been into community expectations and outcomes of policy and planning decisions in emergency response to disasters. Among his findings, he has identified commonalities between the different disasters, whether natural or man-made, and the pre-conditions that compound these disasters.