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2015 will be the 4th Annual Conference, continuing the support for the Disaster and Emergency Management community. The focus on natural disasters will continue with the conference theme of “EARTH; FIRE AND RAIN”.
The Conference will feature multi-agency presentations covering all phases of emergency and disaster manag…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
Stuart Mawbey is an emergency service volunteer worker and manager as well as a person living with disabilities. He has spent the last 15 years assisting in emergencies in the Australian States of South Australia and New South Wales. Here he reflects on the immense personal satisfaction he derives from his volunteerism as well as the ongoing challenges…
By Bhiamie Williamson, Jessica Weir, and Vanessa Cavangh
How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees and destroying ancestral and totemic plants and animals?
The fact is, the experience of Aboriginal peoples in…
Kathmandu — The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed an agreement for a US$ 5.4 million grant for micro enterprise and livelihoods recovery, in the aftermath of the devastating April 25 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks.
The Rapid Enterprise and Livelihoods Recover…
UNICEF Australia today launched an education kit to help parents talk to their children about natural disasters like recent flooding events in Queensland.
“At UNICEF we’re very well aware of the impact events like these have on communities, families and children,” UNICEF chief executive officer Norman Gillespie said.
Dr Gillespie said whether children…
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Globally the senior members of our communities usually feature highly in the death and injury statistics that arise from disasters. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Head, Margareta Wahlström, stated in 2014:
‘The older person is often invisible in our communities until they show up in the mortality figures afte…
On 26 October, three very special schools will be participating in a live video conference to share their green ideas for the future.
Milton State School in Brisbane, Yasawa Primary near Fukishima and Cashmere School in Christchurch have all been affected by natural disasters this year.
The year 5 students will share their experiences with each other…
By exploring how mortality caused by natural disasters impacts on women, men, children, the elderly and people with disabilities, the conference aims:
To contribute to more cost-effective government policies on disaster mitigation, preparedness and recovery for vulnerable populations;
To make the latest cultural and cross-cultural research on disast…
Every year people and communities across Australia are impacted by emergencies and natural disasters. The Diversity in Disaster conference, to be held in Melbourne, Australia on 17-18 April, will bring together Australian and international emergency services professionals and researchers to help build understanding around the unique risks and vulne…
Brookings will be launching its annual review of natural disasters for 2011 on Wednesday, March 28. The review draws out some of the particular characteristics of disaster response and recovery which developed countries experienced, such as widespread flooding in Australia, a terrible earthquake in Christchurch, the Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear a…
As General Assembly holds thematic debate, Secretary-General urges governments to integrate disaster risk reduction into development agendas
Faced with socio-economic fallout from increasingly frequent and severe disasters, Governments must invest in disaster risk reduction and weave it into their development agendas in order to save more lives and bui…
By Jessica Weir, Francis Markham and Bhiamie Williamson
The catastrophic bushfire season is officially over, but governments, agencies and communities have failed to recognise the specific and disproportionate impact the fires have had on Aboriginal peoples.
Addressing this in bushfire response and recovery is part of Unfinished B…