The contemporary management of natural hazards promotes building community resilience through risk management and comprehensive attention to
prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. Achieving adequate planning for possible disasters requires identifying and understanding the
geographical attributes, both physical and social, that may contribute to the resilience and/or vulnerability of places to such events. Subsequent disaster and
community planning can then be strategically applied to enhance resilience. Referring to recent events, this session will workshop the geography of
community vulnerability and resilience to disasters, identify the links to strategic response and recovery, and discuss how resilience can be built during these
operational phases.
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1. The geography of community
resilience to hazards &
disasters
Dr. Iraphne Childs, UQ-GPEM
School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Management
2. Resilience through the phases of disaster
AEM Handbook #2 Community Recovery. Fig. 4.1: Effect of disaster on ongoing community development and
interface with relief and recovery
3. Resilience in the disaster management cycle
Prepare
Respond
RESILIENCE
‘the capacity to
prevent, mitigate, prep
are for, respond to and
recover from the
Prevent impacts of disasters’.
Recover
5. Cyclone Zoe: 27-30 Dec, 2002,
Tikopia & Anuta, Solomon Islands
Tikopia showing main settlements 30 April 2005
Mertz et.al.(2010).
School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Management
6. Tikopia after the cyclone
food gardens destroyed
Had anyone survived?
7. Freshwater from lake & springs in hills
Local Recovery strategies –
temporary shelters
photos: Anderson-Berry, L., Iroi, c. And Rangi, A (2003)
Survival foods
8. Miracle on Tikopia ?
- or a resilient
community?
Most unlikely outcome of this
disaster event
-100% survival rate
- no deaths & few injuries
........... Why? How?
11. St George
• RS info. captured and validated in December
2011 provided contours to 0.25m, previously
10m
• 2011 Floodlines captured including aerial
imagery
• Flood gauges in town with records back to 1916
• Flooding benchmarks for St George:
– Minor 4.0m
– Moderate 5.0m
– Major 6.0m
– Town affected at 12.1m
– Bridge affected at 10.6m
• Previous highest recorded flood March 2010
13.39m
• 5 February 2012 new highest recorded at
13.95m
12. High & Low Flood Hazard Map
Local verification gives additional information on key local
characteristics e.g. irrigation channel acts as levee for
southern part of town
13. Day 2: Monday Feb.6, 2012
key agencies meetings….
daily, 8.00am& 4.00pm
• Police (chair)
• Red Cross (centre management)
• Dalby Mayor or Council rep. LGDMC
• Daly showgrounds facilities manager
• Dept. of Community Services (DOCs)
• Centrelink
• Lions Club/Zonta/Rotary/Salvo’s
– catering
• St.John’s ambulance
• Lifeline
• Chaplains
17. Building Resilience
• Provides better long term outcomes - personal, financial and physical
• Enhances ability to minimise the effects of disaster events on the
community, economy and environment
• Builds upon, rather than replaces, existing strengths and arrangements
DARMSyS: DAMAGE ASSESSMENT & RECONSTRUCTION
MONITORING SYSTEM
18. QRA’s Land Use Planning Team
Projects:
• Grantham and Tully Heads/ Hull
Heads – priority areas for rebuild
• Floodplain Management –
strategic project
• Critical Infrastructure –
specifically focussed on electrical
infrastructure
• Strategic Land Use Assessments
to inform new planning schemes
and ensure recent events are
taken into account
19. Increasing resilience – a geographers’
contribution
• Focus on hazard areas – which areas of town ?
• Analyse results in levels of risk for land use
purposes – low, medium and high
• Which parts of town are at ‘high’ risk ? – retreat
from these areas
• Other properties closer to centre of town ‘low’ or
‘medium’ risk – adapt these areas to the risk
