For this project, the research team based in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S) worked in collaboration with experienced members of Australian Red Cross to better understand the challenges and potential of data-driven decision-making for community disaster resilience.

The Senate Select Committee on Australia’s Disaster Resilience was appointed to inquire into Australia’s preparedness, response and recovery workforce models, as well as alternative models to disaster recovery. This interim report identified several themes in terms of disaster resilience and makes four recommendations

​The Australian Government is currently seeking to enhance Commonwealth crisis responses and recovery capabilities. This comes as Australia faces increasingly frequent and severe crises. The Department of Home Affairs is seeking input on how the nation can achieve this.

Planning for natural disasters and dealing with their aftermath involve input from federal, state and local governments, emergency agencies, non-government organisations and affected communities. This paper focuses on the ‘black summer’ bushfire season of 2019-20 and major flooding in 2022 in New South Wales.

One of the aims of the UK government’s new Environmental Improvement Plan is to reduce risks to communities from flooding. One way to reduce flood risk is through Natural Flood Management (NFM). The recently completed Natural Environment Research Council NFM research programme aimed to address these issues. This report outline what some of the programme’s...