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This is the third annual Major Incidents Report published by the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience. This edition provides an authoritative overview of major incidents in Australia from July 2018 through to June 2019 as identified by emergency services.
Nineteen noteworthy and instructive incidents are included in this report, s…
This report is one of a series of Bushfire Science Reports prepared by the Bushfire Recovery Project. The reports aim to present the latest evidence from the peer-reviewed scientific literature about bushfires, climate change and the native forests of southern and eastern Australia.
Key findings:
The 2019-2020 spring and summer bushfires in eastern…
Part of a comprehensive review of flood risk management in five mature economies, this report reveals many successes in the Australian system, including high-quality national and state guidelines and frameworks for FRM activities, climate change adaptation efforts, a commitment to building back better and high levels of insurance penetration. More work…
This paper uses riskscapes as a lens to analyse how New Zealand has perceived and mediated natural hazard and climate risks over time. Climate change indeed challenges how policy agents imagine and seek to govern risks in space and time. The authors identify five different national riskscapes using a historical timeline, which have c…
Pharmacists are among the unsung heroes in health-related impacts of disasters. As the most accessible primary healthcare professionals, they have always assisted in emergencies, but are not adequately recognised for their contributions. The global COVID-19 pandemic identified the essential role pharmacists have in managing the health needs of the commu…
On 30 January 2020 the Premier announced an Inquiry into the 2019-20 bush fire season in New South Wales (NSW), Australia to make recommendations in relation to bush fire preparedness and response and to report by 31 July 2020, ahead of the 2020-21 bush fire season.
The focus of this report is to provide analysis and recommendations for change to ensur…
Severe Tropical Cyclone (TC) Harold tore across the northern islands of Vanuatu with torrential rain and sustained winds up to 270km per hour. It took lives, destroyed houses, food gardens, businesses and infrastructure, leaving enduring scars on families, communities and the nation. This time, the path to recovery will be much harder to navigate. COVID…
This report looks at the additional benefits that climate action delivers, and how cities can utilise these in their decision-making processes. The report argues that climate policies that promote co-benefits (that tackle climate change whilst also delivering on other priorities) can bolster support from local stakeholders, increasing the likelihood tha…
This is the first of three concurrent Hazard Notes for the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC project, Creating effective multi-channel communication during disaster response and recovery, as part of the Communication and Warnings cluster.
This research adopts a multi-hazards approach to examine the effectiveness of response and recovery communication in…
The Australian Disaster Resilience Index measures resilience through a combination of social, economic, natural environment, built environment, governance and geographical factors, providing spatial outputs (maps) that identify the mosaic of disaster resilience, and the factors that contribute to this resilience, across Australia. The Index is intended…
This research presents a case study of a two-phased citizen science initiative related to tsunami preparedness and response, undertaken between 2015 and 2016 in Orewa, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Phase One was a citizen-initiated, co-developed survey on tsunami preparedness and intended response. Phase Two was a joint citizen and agency-facilitated…
Due to the attractiveness of living in a natural environment, more people are likely to reside in urban-bush interface areas that expose them to dangers from bushfires. Surveys conducted after fires over 2009–2015, indicated that many residents in urban-bush interface areas under-estimate their bushfire risk and do not prepare adequately for these event…
Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is locally known as “Belau,” and includes 340 coral and volcanic islands, located in the western Pacific Ocean, in the southwest corner of Micronesia.
While Palau is fairly protected by its extensive coral reefs, it does experience frequent natural hazards including typhoons, droughts, and tidal surges. Palau ha…
The paper updates normalisation of the Insurance Council of Australia’s Disaster List in the light of debate about the contribution of global warming to the rising cost of natural disasters. Normalisation estimates losses from historical events in a common year, here ‘season’ 2017 defined as the 12-month period from 1 July 2017. The number and nominal c…
This paper addresses the legal frameworks and rules about what local and regional councils in New Zealand can and cannot do to adapt to the coastal hazards associated with sea-level rise and climate change. The focus is on what councils might be liable for in respect of housing affected by coastal hazards. It is part of a Deep South National Science Cha…