In this paper, the author addresses the importance of preparedness in Australia and the need to reform national disaster response capability. The author also highlights the compounding dimensions of the challenges — from climate change, to geopolitical threats and risks to social cohesion — as well as the corresponding opportunities for reform of traditional security...

This report argues that schools need to be recognised for the role they play in disaster responses. Despite a large body of research demonstrating this role that schools play, this seems to have been ignored by the NZ Ministry of Education and central and local government disaster response agencies, and little meaningful change has been...

This paper shows that research often tends to focus on engagement and not outcomes when it comes to understanding the role of community organisations in disaster recovery. Nonetheless, the authors found that there are a number of best and emerging practices to help communities understand recovery, prepare for recovery, and manage recovery in the aftermath...

The NSW Reconstruction Authority has developed Australia’s first State Disaster Mitigation Plan (SDMP). This supports the NSW Government’s commitment to making communities safer, more resilient and better prepared to face the challenges of disasters caused by natural hazards such as floods, bushfires, storms and cyclones and coastal erosion and inundation.

This report reviews international experience of national resilience strategies, planning and processes, to find lessons for Australia. It also examines a series of case studies in which national resilience has (or has not) proved instrumental in the weathering of crises.