Traditional notions of disaster management and community resilience are being challenged by contemporary approaches to community connectivity.
Communities come in many different forms not just those relating to geographical proximity and borders. There are countless communities of a cognitive or psychographic nature that are rapidly forming part of the communications landscape for disaster management.
This workshop will explore these issues and provide a useful insight into how Emergency Management Queensland is looking innovatively at communication solutions for Disaster Management.
The workshop will explore the following key questions:
- What are the types of community that are predominant during a disaster event?
- Where is the ‘town hall’ for these various communities?
- How big is the generation gap?
- How does the Queensland community provide itself services during a disaster event?
- What are the communication limitations of existing disaster management operating models?
- How do I control the social network?
- Is command and control the most useful paradigm in emergency management?
- How do I target community resilience activity for maximum reach at minimum cost?
Indicators of future disaster resilient communities
Disaster resilience is an outcome set in a long-term timeframe, requiring long-term commitment. Achieving disaster resilience will require achieving sustained behavioural change, the results of which should be seen across a number of years.
The National Strategy for Disaster Resilience offers a snapshot of the features of a disaster resilient community and implementation of the strategy is being affected under seven priorities, namely:
- Leading change and coordinating efforts
- Understanding risks
- Communicating with and educating people about risks
- Partnering with those who affect change
- Empowering individuals and communities to exercise choice and take responsibility
- Reducing risks in the built environment
- Supporting capabilities for disaster resilience
In this workshop, the Attorney General’s department will consider the national strategy and progress to date and will explore the following key questions:
- What are markers of disaster resilience in communities that could indicate sustained behavioural change?
- Where are whole-of-governments approaches bearing fruit in the implementation of the Strategy?
- Are there other partnerships that could be explored to facilitate enhanced disaster resilience in the Australian community?
- What other opportunities exist to build resilience at the local, state and national level?
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