Governments should begin harnessing the power of community organisations in disaster planning, according to this new report.

Despite the wide use of the resilience concept in urban planning and policy making, measuring this concept at neighbourhood level has not been done. In this study, a Neighbourhood Disaster Resilience Index (NDRI) is proposed with a refined set of variables for measuring neighbourhood level disaster resiliency

The risks of disasters pose many ongoing challenges for settlements in Australia. This paper reports the findings of investigations into successful cases of mainstreaming in Australian disaster risk reduction.

Noosa Climate Action Plan (NCAP) is a unique community driven plan which combines top-down and bottom-up approaches and is supported by a wide range of stakeholders. This paper evaluates the NCAP process in order to evaluate its success as a collaborative planning process in developing effective climate change adaptation plans.

Tsunami awareness in New Zealand has evolved over the last 50 years since the 1960 Chilean tsunami, which struck New Zealand without official warning and caused significant damage, despite occurring at low tide. From 1960 to 2004 various measures were put in place, such as becoming part of the Pacific Tsunami Warning System, which led...