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Input from agencies, organisations and companies working in urban resilience, emergency management, climate change adaptation and similar areas is sought about current practices and processes in urban areas impacted by natural hazards.
The Natural hazards and resilience in complex urban systems project, a partnership between Natural Hazards Research Australia’s (the Centre) and RMIT University asks practitioners to complete a 10-minute anonymous online survey, which closes 22 November 2024.
The purpose of the survey is to understand what practices and processes are currently applied in Australia, with a particular focus on major urban areas. The survey focuses on work undertaken in the urban resilience sector, particularly on practices and processes of organisations regarding mapping resilience and vulnerabilities and prioritising, monitoring and evaluating resilience investments. The project will improve understanding of the known and emergent impacts of multidimensional, cascading and compounding disasters, as well as the vulnerabilities and resilience of Australia’s major urban areas. Improved guidance for conceptual mapping of vulnerabilities and resilience within urban systems at local scales will be developed, as well as processes, principles and standards for prioritising and influencing urban resilience investment and monitoring and evaluating the outcomes of investment decisions.
The research findings benefit Australian disaster management professionals and organisations by building a stronger knowledge base of the vulnerabilities and resilience of urban areas to the impacts of natural hazards, informing strategy development, planning and decision making.
Find more information about the survey and take part here or scan the QR code below.
Learn more about the project here.
For further information, contact Project Coordinator Annette Kroen (03) 9925 9921 or annette.kroen@rmit.edu.au.