How can critical infrastructure and other lifelines be made more resilient to help communities better prepare, respond to and recover from the impacts of natural hazards?
In this November Hazardous Webinar, the expert panel discussed the latest findings from Natural Hazards Research Australia’s Understanding the importance of resilience lifelines for regional and remove communities project.
11:00am – 12:00pm AEDT, 21 November 2024
Speakers:
- Prof Lauren Rickards, La Trobe University (previously RMIT University) and Natural Hazards Research Australia
- Dr Adriana Keating, Monash University and Natural Hazards Research Australia
- John Richardson, Australian Institute of Disaster Resilience (AIDR)
In times of disaster, it’s often the way natural hazards disrupt and damage communities’ lifelines - power, water and sanitation, transport and telecommunications – that creates the worst impacts.
Conversely, it’s often the effective functioning of established lifelines and sometimes, the unexpected emergence of informal lifelines in disaster situations that saves lives and reduce the impacts on communities.
Prof Lauren Rickards (La Trobe University and Natural Hazards Research Australia) and Dr Adriana Keating (Monash University and Natural Hazards Research Australia) discussed the project and explored how the resilience of Australia’s lifelines can be improved through the identification of key data and research needs, informing future lifelines research.
John Richardson (AIDR) provided perspective about the importance of resilient lifelines and their ability to shift in focus from the resilience of infrastructure assets themselves to the contribution of infrastructure assets to the resilience of the system.