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Displaying 15 of about 684 resultsThis report is a companion piece to the Major Incidents Report 2022–23, drawing upon some of these findings. Using the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) societal, economic, environmental, geopolitical, technological risk categories, and their global risk projections for 2022, a range of factors were identified as potentially having an influence on an individ…
This research investigates the themes of Good health and wellbeing, and Gender equality, two of the United Nations Sustainability Goals (United Nations (2015). The research shared in this report was conducted nine months after the February 2022 flood event that impacted the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. Researchers undertook focus groups and inter…
This document sets out 12 policy areas that insurers have identified as requiring reform, modernisation, or investment, and is the result of collaboration and consultation not just across the membership of the Insurance Council, but with stakeholders and policymakers across the country. While the focus of this document is on the work of the Austral…
This report presents the findings of a building codes resilience survey developed by the members of the Global Resiliency Dialogue – the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB), the National Research Council of Canada, the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment, and the International Code Council (ICC, based in the United States). T…
This study builds on natural hazards behavior, community development, participatory, and codesign research to understand current community engagement approaches in an Australian context. Key principles for engaging communities were operationalized from document analysis and interviews with 30 community engagement practitioners from 25 Australian emergen…
The guidance in this handbook provides organisations with high-level principles and strategies to design, implement and evaluate learning programs and initiatives for young people. It provides a context for youth engagement and learning communities as part of a broader community engagement and capacity-building strategy to reduce disaster risk and enhan…
Australian Red Cross has developed this suite of lesson plans to help teachers educate students from pre-school to year 12 about important emergency preparedness and recovery information.
Endorsed by the Australian Psychologists Society and the Australia Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network, the lesson plans were developed by teachers…
This framework is designed to guide Australia’s efforts to reduce disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It translates the first three Sendai Framework priorities into action for the Australian context; though the strategies outlined in this framework are applicable to disaster preparedness and recovery efforts, the fourth priority of the Sendai…
Droughts are part of Australia's landscape and managing drought is a feature of Australian agriculture. Australian farming businesses and farming communities are adopting increasingly sophisticated and effective strategies to deal with drought and respond to climate change and variability.
This agreement continues to build on drought policy reform incl…
The Building a resilient tourism industry: Queensland Tourism Climate Change Response Plan (Tourism Sector Adaptation Plan) provides a roadmap for the tourism industry to respond proactively to climate change, and to lead the way as a steward for the environment and a key contributor to community wellbeing.
This plan, guided by input from the tourism i…
Developing this Built Environment and Infrastructure (BE&I) Sector Adaptation Plan (SAP) involved the scoping of climate risk for the sector, identification of enablers and barriers to addressing these risks, and recognising gaps that hinder sector-specific adaptation action and practice. A set of priority adaptation actions has evolved from th…
This Agriculture Sector Adaptation Plan (Ag SAP) provided an opportunity to take stock of current adaptation activities and resources in Queensland’s agricultural sector. The Ag SAP has identified critical barriers, gaps and industry needs, and has made recommendations for future actions and a way forward to build a stronger and more sustainable agricul…
This project aims to improve understanding of fire and atmosphere interactions and feedback processes through running the coupled fire-atmosphere model ACCESS-Fire. Project deliverables include: preparation of meteorological and simulation case studies of significant fire events as publications; installation and testing of the ACCESS-Fire coupled model…
This study was conducted to examine the impacts of the Black Saturday and related bushfires of February 2009 on community members’ physical and mental health and wellbeing. The research also aimed to build understanding of the interplay between individual, social and community-level recovery. The six year study involving over 1000 participants across Vi…
This hazard note presents how remote Indigenous communities in northern Australia are frequently affected by natural hazards but do not have the same access to services as other areas. There is a strong need to develop effective partnerships with emergency management agencies that can help Indigenous communities build emergency management…