Crisis Management and Disaster Relief

• • A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• MAQ-PICX213-National Resilience: Crisis Response and Emergency Management (No longer available)

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

• MAQ-PICX1011-New Security Challenges

Others

Pre-requisite 50cp at 1000 level or above NCCW (pre-2020 units) PICT213, PICX213

Additional requirements

• Other requirements -

  Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.

This subject explores the concept of national resilience. It identifies the role of government in preparing for, managing and recovering from a broad range of crises.

The subject begins with an overview of risk reduction strategies and introduces the concept of contingency planning. It then examines the various kinds of crisis response capabilities that government develop, including interagency and state-federal coordination procedures, interoperability of equipment and ADF domestic counterterrorism capabilities.

The subject then discusses emergency coordination and management in a variety of contexts, including natural disasters, a large-scale mass transit accident, a nuclear, chemical or biological incident, a viral epidemic, a terrorist attack and critical infrastructure failure. Finally, the subject examines planning for national resilience capacity, the ability to recover from unexpected and debilitating crises.

These potent threats to national security are outside the threat-centric concept of homeland security and require a more risk-based approach to planning and preparation.

• Risk aessessment exercise (20%)
• Essay (50%)
• Project report (30%)

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