Dr Yetta Gurtner ~ Lecturer, Planning

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)
• EV5110: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
• SC3008: Professional Placement (Level 3; CNS & TSV)
• SC5008: Professional Placement (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
• SC5009: Postgraduate Internship (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

• Human geography (4406)
• Urban and regional planning (3304)
• Public health (4206)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Natural hazards (1904)
• environmental policy, climate change and natural hazards (1999)

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

Memberships

• 2016 - Research Member - Active Transport Network
• 2016 - Council of Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) – Special Interest Group Risk Crisis and Recovery Management
• 2016 - Research Member - The Cairns Institute
• 2016 - Academic Member - Planning Institute of Australia (PIA)
• 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)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

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

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 36+ research outputs authored by Dr Yetta Gurtner from 2004 onwards.

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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

• Tornadoes in Australia: Increasing the awareness and addressing the gaps in disaster risk management (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• 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)