Opportunities for enhanced disaster risk reduction in urban planning in Victoria

Urban and land use planning is increasingly recognised as a key mechanism to manage natural hazard risks. However, planning systems are complex and multi-faceted, seeking to achieve diverse and sometimes contradictory goals across large geographic areas.

The lack of an integrated and comprehensive approach can negatively impact natural hazard risk management when seeking to achieve such diverse goals through multiple mechanisms.

Hazard Note 107 presents an assessment from the University of Melbourne of the comprehensiveness of Victoria’s urban planning for disaster risk reduction, using a set of diagnostic tools that were developed as part of the larger Urban planning for natural hazard mitigation project. This research highlights key opportunities for improving the resilience of existing and future settlements in Victoria. 

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