This document discusses emergency management and resilience. It notes that 2011 saw $5 billion in losses from natural hazards. Resilience refers to a community's ability to withstand and recover from disasters. The document outlines an all hazards approach and a national approach involving mitigation, education, preparedness, response, and recovery. It seeks to develop the emergency management and resilience function and work with bushfire teams on mitigation activities to facilitate community preparedness for natural disasters.

1. Emergency Management &
Resilience
Lew Short

2. A bit about me…

3. 2011 $5B in losses
from natural hazards

4. “The world has entered the era of ‘mega
crisis’ or catastrophic emergencies’
whose force and magnitude defy even
the best laid plans and the most robust
response systems”
Professor Paul ‘t Hart

5. Resilience
• Resilience refers to a person or
communities ability to withstand a
disaster and its consequences, to
bounce back and return to its pre-
disaster state quickly.

6. All Hazards
• Flood
• Bushfire
• Cyclone
• Severe Storms
• Earthquake

7. National Approach
• developing and implementing effective, risk-
based land management and planning
arrangements and other mitigation activities;
• having effective arrangements in place to inform people about how to
assess risks and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to hazards;
• having clear and effective education systems so people understand
what options are available and what the best course of action is in
responding to a hazard as it approaches;
• supporting individuals and communities to prepare for extreme events;
• ensuring the most effective, well-coordinated response from our
emergency services and volunteers when disaster hits; and
• working in a swift, compassionate and pragmatic way to help
communities recover from devastation and to learn, innovate and adapt
in the aftermath of disastrous events.

8. Resilience strategies

9. Emergency Management &
Resilience
• Seeking to develop the newly created EM&R
function
• New market sector in resilience with a focus
on developing and implementing effective,
risk-based land management and planning
arrangements and other mitigation activities on
an all hazards bases

10. EM&R
• Will work closely with the
bushfire team to
compliment and secure
new work opportunities
for both sectors.
• The end game of
facilitating individuals,
communities and
agencies to prepare for
natural disasters.

11. Core Capability

12. Integrated
Specialist
Capabilities

14. Integrated Specialist
Core Capability Capability
Creative Project
Mgt
Planning Integration Mapping
Mapping
Policy
Policy Risk
Risk
Project
Creative Strategy Planning Bushfire Risk
Risk GIS
Bushfire
Mgt GIS

15. Field of Dreams
• “If you build it they will come”

16. EM&R Vision
• Our environment will become more
liveable and sustainable by reducing
community exposure to the impact of
natural hazards by building resilience
into the landscape through:
– Strategy, planning, design and
construction
– Hazard identification
– Risk management and mitigation
– Effective response and recovery

17. What I can offer you