Dr Yetta Gurtner - Research Portfolio

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About

Yetta Gurtner is a lecturer and researcher with the Centre for Disaster Studies at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. With a multi-disciplinary background in Southeast Asian Studies, her core research interests include integrated disaster and crisis management, tourism crisis, and sustainable development in disaster recovery. Related research interests include social impact assessment and an appreciation of dynamic contexts of vulnerability, capacity, adaptation, resilience, mitigation and sustainability, particularly within developing nations.

Teaching

EV1008: Human Geography (Level 1; TSV)
EV3110: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (Level 3; CNS & TSV)
EV3606: Disasters, Communities and Planning (Level 3; CNS & TSV)
EV5110: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
EV5606: Disasters, Communities and Planning (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
SC3008: Professional Placement (Level 3; CNS & TSV)
SC5008: Professional Placement (Level 5; CNS & TSV)

Interests

Research

establishing a holistic understanding of the impacts of tourism in developing nations
advancing integrated crisis management for tourist destinations
persuading sustainable tourism development practice
assisting knowledge, understanding and awareness of integrated disaster management
the facilitation of community-based disaster management - maximising community capacity and resources

Experience

2017 to 2018 - Researcher, Graduate Research School (JCU Townsville)
2015 to 2016 - Researcher, Graduate Research School (JCU Townsville)
2003 to 2007 - Researcher, Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC) (Brisbane)

Research Disciplines

Socio-Economic Objectives

Honours

Awards

2020 - Resilient Australia Awards - Queensland winner in the school category as part of "Thuringowa High Disaster Resilience for a Changing Climate Grand Challenge".
2017 - Highly Commended Paper by Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 2016 “Returning to Paradise: Investigating Long term Tourism Crisis Recovery on the Island of Bali”
2016 - Sessional Teaching Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning at JCU
2011 - Faculty Citation - (with David King, Alison Cottrell and Nikki Moore) Innovative approaches to the development of planning curriculum for the needs of regional, tropical Australia

Fellowships

2016 - Research Member - The Cairns Institute

Memberships

2023 - Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) Queensland Branch
2022 - State Emergency Service (Volunteer - Field Operations Member)
2021 - Australiasian Women In Emergency Management Network (AWEN)
2020 - Queensland Disaster Researchers Alliance
2018 - Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) Work Integrated Learning - Queensland Chapter Community of Practice
2016 - Academic Member - Planning Institute of Australia (PIA)
2016 - Research Member - Active Transport Network
2016 - Council of Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) – Special Interest Group Risk Crisis and Recovery Management
2014 - International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA)
2015 to 2016 - Research Member - Science and Technology Major Group - Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai Framework)

Publications

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Journal Articles

King D and Gurtner Y (2021) Focusing post-disaster research methodology: reflecting on 50 years of post-disaster research. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 36 (4). pp. 32-39
Gurtner Y (2016) Returning to paradise: investigating long term tourism crisis recovery on the island of Bali. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 28. pp. 11-19
King D, Gurtner Y, Firdaus A, Harwood S and Cottrell A (2016) Land use planning for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: operationalizing policy and legislation at local levels. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 7 (2). pp. 158-172

Books

King D, Ginger J, Williams S, Cottrell A, Gurtner Y, Leitch C, Henderson D, Jayasinghe N, Kim P, Booth K, Ewin C, Innes K, Jacobs K, Jago-Bassingthwaighte M and Jackson L (2013) Planning, Building and Insuring: adaptation of built environment to climate change induced increased intensity of natural hazards. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

Book Chapters

Gurtner Y and King D (2021) Traveling Safely in an Unsafe World – A Shared Responsibility. In: Tourist Health, Safety and Wellbeing in the New Normal. Springer, New York, NY, USA, pp. 167-187
Gurtner Y and King D (2021) Socio-economic vulnerabilities to natural disasters and social justice. In: Economic Effects of natural Disasters: theoretical foundations, methods and tools. Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, London, UK, pp. 493-509
King D and Gurtner Y (2020) Planning for demographic change and population loss: land use planning for demographic change after disasters in New Orleans, Christchurch and Innisfail. In: Demography of Disasters: impacts for population and place. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 101-123
King D and Gurtner Y (2017) Utilizing post‐disaster surveys to understand the social context of floods–experiences from Northern Australia. In: Flood Damage Survey and Assessment: new insights from research and practice. Geophysical Monograph, 228. AGU Wiley, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 107-120
Gurtner Y (2007) Phuket: tsunami and tourism - a preliminary investigation. In: Crisis Management in Tourism. CAB International, Oxon, UK, pp. 217-233

Conference Papers

Hryciw D, Wake J, Kennedy U, Howard A, Gurtner Y, Whelan M and Rowland S (2018) Work-integrated-learning within undergraduate science degree programs: case studies in assessment. Proceedings of the Australian Colloaborative Education Network National Conference. In: ACEN 2018: Australian Colloaborative Education Network National Conference, 3-5 October 2018, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Croaker S, Gurtner Y and Bandaranaike S (2017) Identifying student work skills and personal values for work-integrated learning: a host organisation perspective. Refereed Proceedings of the 20th WACE World Conference on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education. In: 20th WACE World Conference on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education, 2017, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 5-8 June 2017, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Bandaranaike S and Gurtner Y (2016) Integrating cross cultural sensitivity in the workplace: developing globally proficient professionals. [Presented at the WACE 2nd International Research Symposium]. In: WACE 2nd International Research Symposium, 12-15 June 2016, Victoria, Canada

More: ResearchOnline@JCU stores 37+ research outputs authored by Dr Yetta Gurtner from 2004 onwards.

Supervision

Advisory Accreditation: I can be on your Advisory Panel as a Primary or Secondary Advisor.

These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

Exploring the interactions between lost tourists, searchers, and other stakeholders to identify preventative search and rescue opportunities for lost tourist events in terrestrial wilderness environments (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
Tornadoes in Australia: Increasing the awareness and addressing the gaps in disaster risk management (PhD , Secondary Advisor)