@article {bnh-7099, title = {The Australian Disaster Resilience Index: Volume I {\textendash} State of Disaster Resilience Report}, number = {492}, year = {2020}, month = {07/2020}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

Australian communities face increasing losses and disruption from disasters. Disaster resilience is a protective characteristic that acts to reduce the effects of, and losses from, natural hazard events. Disaster resilience arises from the capacities of social, economic and government systems to prepare for, respond to and recover from a natural hazard event, and to learn, adapt and transform in anticipation of future natural hazard events. This assessment of disaster resilience estimates the status of these capacities and shows how they are spatially distributed across Australia.

Composite indices are frequently used to summarise and report complex relational measurements about a particular issue. The Australian Disaster Resilience Index measures disaster resilience as a set of coping and adaptive capacities. Coping capacity is the means by which available resources and abilities can be used to face adverse consequences that could lead to a disaster. Adaptive capacity is the arrangements and processes that enable adjustment through learning, adaptation and transformation. Eight themes of disaster resilience encapsulate the resources and abilities that communities have to prepare for, absorb and recover from natural hazards (social character, economic capital, emergency services, planning and the built environment, community capital, information access) or to adapt, learn and solve problems (social and community engagement, governance and leadership). Across the eight themes, 77 indicators were used to compute the Australian Disaster Resilience Index in 2,084 areas of Australia, corresponding to the Statistical Area Level 2 divisions of the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The Index was then used to undertake the first nationally standardised assessment of the state of disaster resilience in Australia. Disaster resilience is reported at three levels: an overall disaster resilience index, coping and adaptive capacity sub-indexes and themes of disaster resilience that encapsulate the resources and abilities that communities have to prepare for, absorb and recover from natural hazards and to adapt, learn and solve problems (social character, economic capital, emergency services, planning and the built environment, community capital, information access, social and community engagement, governance and leadership).

Volume I (this volume) assesses the state of disaster resilience in Australia, using the Australian Disaster Resilience Index. Volume I gives a brief overview of the design\ and computation of the index, then assesses the state of disaster resilience in\ Australia at different levels: overall disaster resilience, coping and adaptive\ capacity, and the eight themes of disaster resilience. Volume I also presents a\ typology of disaster resilience that groups areas across Australia that have similar disaster resilience profiles.

Readers interested in the results of the assessment of disaster resilience in\ Australia should focus on Volume I.

}, keywords = {ANDRI, disaster resilience, state of disaster resilience}, isbn = {978-0-6482756-1-9}, issn = {492}, author = {Melissa Parsons and Ian Reeve and James McGregor and Graham Marshall and Richard Stayner and Judith McNeill and Peter Hastings and Sonya Glavac and Phil Morley} } @article {bnh-7101, title = {The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Volume II {\textendash} Chapter 1: Design of the Index}, number = {493}, year = {2020}, month = {07/2020}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

In this chapter

Section 1.1 Presents the conceptual basis of the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index.

Section 1.2 Describes the structure of the index, including its hierarchical structure, and the themes of disaster resilience.

Section 1.3 Outlines the spatial resolution and areas of Australia included in the index.

}, keywords = {ANDRI, computation, disaster resilience, index design}, isbn = {978-0-6482756-2-6}, issn = {493}, author = {Melissa Parsons and Ian Reeve and James McGregor and Graham Marshall and Richard Stayner and Judith McNeill and Peter Hastings and Sonya Glavac and Phil Morley} } @article {bnh-7102, title = {The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Volume II {\textendash} Chapter 2: Indicators}, number = {493}, year = {2020}, month = {07/2020}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

In this chapter

Section 2.1 Describes the method used to identify and select indicators for the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index.

Section 2.2 Lists the indicators used in the index themes, including the source of each indicator and how it was calculated.

Section 2.3 Justifies the relationships between indicators and disaster resilience for each theme in the index, using a literature review.

Section 2.4 Describes the method used to disaggregate some of the indicators to an SA2 resolution.

}, keywords = {ANDRI, computation, disaster resilience, index design, indicators}, isbn = {978-0-6482756-2-6}, issn = {493}, author = {Melissa Parsons and Ian Reeve and James McGregor and Graham Marshall and Richard Stayner and Judith McNeill and Peter Hastings and Sonya Glavac and Phil Morley} } @article {bnh-7103, title = {The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Volume II {\textendash} Chapter 3: Computation of the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index}, number = {493}, year = {2020}, month = {07/2020}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

In this chapter

Section 3.1 Reviews the development and use of composite indexes and methods for computing composite indexes.

Section 3.2 Describes the rationale for, and the statistical computation of, the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index.

Section 3.3 Describes the methods used to compute the typology of groups of SA2s with similar disaster resilience profiles.

}, keywords = {ANDRI, computation, disaster resilience, index design}, isbn = {978-0-6482756-2-6}, issn = {493}, author = {Melissa Parsons and Ian Reeve and James McGregor and Graham Marshall and Richard Stayner and Judith McNeill and Peter Hastings and Sonya Glavac and Phil Morley} } @article {bnh-7104, title = {The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Volume II {\textendash} Chapter 4: Statistical outputs: ANDRI, coping capacity and adaptive capacity}, number = {493}, year = {2020}, month = {07/2020}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

In this chapter

Section 4.1 Presents the statistical outputs and results for the overall Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index.

Section 4.2 Presents the statistical outputs and results for the coping capacity index.

Section 4.3 Presents the statistical outputs and results for the adaptive capacity index.

}, keywords = {adaptive capacity, ANDRI, computation, coping capacity, disaster resilience, index design}, isbn = {978-0-6482756-2-6}, issn = {493}, author = {Melissa Parsons and Ian Reeve and James McGregor and Graham Marshall and Richard Stayner and Judith McNeill and Peter Hastings and Sonya Glavac and Phil Morley} } @article {bnh-7105, title = {The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Volume II {\textendash} Chapter 5: Statistical outputs: disaster resilience themes}, number = {493}, year = {2020}, month = {07/2020}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

In this chapter

Each section presents the statistical outputs and results of one disaster resilience theme.

Section 5.1 Social character.

Section 5.2 Economic capital.

Section 5.3 Emergency services.

Section 5.4 Planning and the built environment.

Section 5.5 Community capital.

Section 5.6 Information access.

Section 5.7 Social and community engagement.

Section 5.8 Governance and leadership.

}, keywords = {ANDRI, computation, disaster resilience, index design, statistical output}, isbn = {978-0-6482756-2-6}, issn = {493}, author = {Melissa Parsons and Ian Reeve and James McGregor and Graham Marshall and Richard Stayner and Judith McNeill and Peter Hastings and Sonya Glavac and Phil Morley} } @article {bnh-7106, title = {The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Volume II {\textendash} Chapter 6: Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis}, number = {493}, year = {2020}, month = {07/2020}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

In this chapter

Section 6.1 Explains the role of uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in composite index construction.

Section 6.2 Describes the uncertainty analysis applied to the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index.

Section 6.2 Describes the sensitivity analysis applied to the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index.

}, keywords = {analysis, ANDRI, computation, disaster resilience, index design, sensitivity, uncertainty}, isbn = { 978-0-6482756-2-6}, issn = {493}, author = {Melissa Parsons and Ian Reeve and James McGregor and Graham Marshall and Richard Stayner and Judith McNeill and Peter Hastings and Sonya Glavac and Phil Morley} } @article {bnh-7100, title = {The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Volume II {\textendash} Index Design and Computation}, number = {493}, year = {2020}, month = {07/2020}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

Australian communities face increasing losses and disruption from natural disasters.\  Disaster resilience is a protective characteristic that acts to reduce the effects of, and losses from, natural hazard events.\  Disaster resilience arises from the capacities of social, economic and government systems to prepare for, respond to and recover from a natural hazard event, and to learn, adapt and transform in anticipation of future natural hazard events.\  This assessment of disaster resilience estimates the status of these capacities and shows how they are spatially distributed across Australia.

Composite indices are frequently used to summarize and report complex relational measurements about a particular issue.\  The Australian Disaster Resilience Index measures disaster resilience as a set of coping and adaptive capacities.\  Coping capacity is the means by which available resources and abilities can be used to face adverse consequences that could lead to a disaster.\  Adaptive capacity is the arrangements and processes that enable adjustment through learning, adaptation and transformation.\  Eight themes of disaster resilience encapsulate the resources and abilities that communities have to prepare for, absorb and recover from natural hazards (social character, economic capital, emergency services, planning and the built environment, community capital, information access) or to adapt, learn and solve problems (social and community engagement, governance and leadership).\  Across the eight themes, 77 indicators were used to compute the Australian Disaster Resilience Index in 2084 areas of Australia, corresponding to the Statistical Area Level 2 divisions of the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The index was then used to undertake the first nationally standardised assessment of the state of disaster resilience in Australia.\  Disaster resilience is reported at three levels: an overall disaster resilience index, coping and adaptive capacity sub-indexes and themes of disaster resilience that encapsulate the resources and abilities that communities have to prepare for, absorb and recover from natural hazards and to adapt, learn and solve problems (social character, economic capital, emergency services, planning and the built environment, community capital, information access, social and community engagement, governance and leadership).

Volume II (this volume) describes in detail the computation of the Australian Disaster Resilience Index. This includes resilience concepts, literature\ review, index structure, data collection, indicators, statistical methods, detailed\ statistical outputs, sensitivity analysis and uncertainty analyses.

Readers interested in the technical aspects of the Australian Disaster\ Resilience Index should also consider Volume II. Volume II is comprised of six\ chapters:

Chapter 1: Design of the Australian Disaster Resilience Index

Chapter 2: Indicators

Chapter 3: Computation of the Australian Disaster Resilience Index

Chapter 4: Statistical outputs: ADRI, coping capacity and adaptive\ capacity

Chapter 5: Statistical outputs: disaster resilience themes

Chapter 6: Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis

}, keywords = {ANDRI, computation, disaster resilience, index design}, isbn = {978-0-6482756-2-6}, issn = {493}, author = {Melissa Parsons and Ian Reeve and James McGregor and Graham Marshall and Richard Stayner and Judith McNeill and Peter Hastings and Sonya Glavac and Phil Morley} } @article {bnh-6988, title = {A typology of disaster resilience in Australia - annual report 2018-19}, number = {576}, year = {2020}, month = {06/2020}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

The themes that influence disaster resilience in different locations in Australia are summarised using a typology.\  A typology identifies SA2s (Statistical Area 2 divisions of the ABS) that have similar characteristic patterns of theme sub-index values, and places these SA2s together into groups.\  Thus, the SA2s within a group are similar to each other, but each group has a different disaster resilience profile.\  The profile associated with each group can then be used to understand disaster resilience in local communities and the strengths and opportunities for enhancing or improving disaster resilience.

Cluster analysis revealed five disaster resilience profiles in Australia.\  The SA2s within a group all have a similar profile {\textendash} that is, they have similar disaster resilience strengths and constraints.\  Most SA2s fall into Group 4, and these are largely in metropolitan Australia.\  In comparison to other groups, areas within Group 4 are best placed overall to cope with and adapt to complex change associated with natural hazards.\  Areas in Group 3 are largely in regional and remote areas.\  Areas with this disaster resilience profile have an enhanced pro-social setting, but face constraints from economic capital, planning and the built environment, emergency services, information access and governance and leadership.\  Areas with the Groups 1 and the Group 5 disaster resilience profile are constrained by community capital and social character.\  Areas with the Group 2 disaster resilience profile are largely inner regional areas with reduced access to information and telecommunications services.\  Variation in the strengths and constraints on disaster resilience suggests that place-based strategies need to be applied to support the different dimensions of disaster resilience.

}, keywords = {ANDRI, annual report, disaster resilience}, issn = {576}, author = {Melissa Parsons and Ian Reeve and James McGregor and Sonya Glavac and Richard Stayner and Judith McNeill and Peter Hastings and Graham Marshall and Phil Morley} }