Australia

National policies, plans and risk and governance profile(s)

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The ANU Disaster Solutions Update and Roundtable 2024 aims to identify the key challenges regarding funding for resilience, recovery, and insurance; and discuss the research to address financing challenges.
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The CORE-STEP Dashboard attempts to support healthcare systems by presenting visualisations of data on historical disaster events, climate-sensitive disease trends, community adaptation efforts, and health service capacity.
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This paper identifies the need to pair life-stage with disaster risk reduction (DRR) objectives to improve understandings of what counts as ‘inclusion’ and ‘participation’.
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The report examines the use of foresight techniques in the context of long-term disaster risk management.
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The Queensland (Australia) 2023-24 State Recovery and Resilience Plan (the Plan) covers 13 disaster events and captures the diversity, breadth and extent of disasters for the entire season.
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This study aimed to evaluate university students’ perceptions of flood risk and their understanding of common flood probabilities in the Greater Sydney region of Australia.
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This report presents the results of the assessment of the effectiveness of the state government activities to support the recovery of the 39 local government areas (LGAs) impacted by the North and Far North Queensland monsoon trough in 2019.
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The aims of this case study is, among others, to give an overview of how the floods and related events unfolded in Victoria, and to explain the legal and institutional background of the Victoria Elections Commission.

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