The coordination and integration of housing policy and settlement planning with disaster prevention, preparedness, response and recovery is essential. This final report finds that climate-related disasters in Australia are set to increase. To keep up, policies, practices and priorities must be better coordinated to meet both short- and long-term needs.

Housing is heavily impacted during disasters, so it's crucial that housing policy works closely with disaster risk reduction and response. This research looks at how housing policy and planning can better prepare for natural disasters, and enable recovery from them. It examines institutional arrangements, planning coordination and disaster management responses.

This report analyses real world examples of what is possible in the growing outer suburbs, and highlights benefits from these interventions. The analysis includes a variety of case study projects in outer suburbs, across three categories: economic development, community infrastructure and transport infrastructure.

Dominant modes of decision-making regarding city form and function are not easily disrupted. Assumptions about the cultures of city life, the motives of powerful actors in shaping cities and city futures are embedded in socio-political discourses and may seem largely immutable. However, cities do change. Papers in this conference track discuss how our expectations of...

This research examines the role of local government engagement and coordination in modern Australian metropolitan governance.