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‘Top down’ disaster resilience doesn’t work
In the past ten years we have seen several major reports and announcements seeking to improve and transform the way emergency management works in Australia.
Author Mark Duckworth Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Deakin University
The National Recovery and Resilience Agency, announced last week and funded in Tuesday’s budget, is the latest.
After the 2009 Bushfires and the 2010-11 Queensland floods, the Council of Australian Governments endorsed the 2011 National Strategy for Disaster Resilience, which identified a need
[…] to develop and embed new ways of doing things […] to improve disaster resilience and prevent complacency setting in once the memory of a recent disaster has subsided.
PDF), to develop and incorporate new flood monitoring and early warning technology within
PDC’s DisasterAWARE® platform a milestone in its partnership, which started in August of 2019.
PDC is an applied research center managed by the University of Hawaiʻi that develops new technologies and best practices to advance the field of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. This new capability will support disaster management operations around the world.
During the recent extreme flooding that impacted New South Wales, Australia in March 2021, surpassing record levels from the last half century, Geoscience Australia on behalf of Emergency Management Australia engaged
NASA’s Disasters program to help monitor floods. Using
5 May 2021
The Morrison government will establish a new Australian Climate Service to coordinate and oversee preparation and responses to climate change, bringing together the work of key government agencies.
The Australian Climate Service will receive $209 million in funding in the federal budget to be delivered next week.
The new service will bring together expertise across a range of Commonwealth agencies, including the Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and the CSIRO.
The role of the Australian Climate Service will be to guide responses to emergencies triggered by extreme weather events, such as floods, storms and bush fires and will work in cooperation with Emergency Management Australia and the Government’s new National Recovery and Resilience Agency.
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Australia’s leading knowledge agencies have welcomed the Commonwealth Government’s $209 million announcement for a new Australian Climate Service that will support better and faster decision making to ensure communities, infrastructure, and businesses are safe, secure and resilient in the face of natural hazards.
The new Service – which brings together world-leading expertise from the Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau), Geoscience Australia, CSIRO, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – will support communities and business to better anticipate, manage and adapt to the risks that a changing climate will bring.
The Australian Climate Service will initially focus on supporting Emergency Management Australia and the Government’s new National Recovery and Resilience Agency.