Disaster planning
Conference paper
Recovery from the storm: resilience and the role of community capital in long-term disaster recovery in regional Western Australia
Through an examination of ‘community capital’, this paper examines the actors and relationships involved in the flood recovery process of a regional community in Western Australia
Conference paper
Planning and retrofitting for recurrent floods
This paper deals with three aspects of flood hazards that are crucial for an understanding their interactions with land use planning.
Conference paper
Re-thinking how we plan to address technically complex problems: drawing on planning theory to guide practice in revision of land use plans in coastal high hazard zones
This paper offers a preliminary framework to structure examination of the potential challenges faced by those who advise political decision-makers as they navigate amongst strategies to address increased risk associated with coastal high hazard zones, looking particularly at issues of information selection and technical literacy in communication of risks, and path dependency in determining likely...
Policy report
Rudd's army: a deployable civilian capacity for Australia
This analysis examines the need to specify responsibilities, accountabilities, authority, legal obligations and resources to achieve a ‘Team Australia’ approach. Equitable conditions of service for civilian participants on overseas operations that are comparable to military and police entitlements will be important.