Disaster loss assessment guidelines

Australian Emergency Manual Series
PART III: Volume 3 — Guidelines Guide 11

The series has been developed to assist in the management and delivery of support services in a disaster context. 

These Guidelines and the associated case study ‘Economic and Social Costs of the North Queensland January 1998 Floods’, which is available online at www.emergency.qld.gov.au/cdrs/mitigation/pdf/case_study.pdf, have been developed by the Queensland Department of Emergency Services and Emergency Management Australia in order to provide emergency management practitioners across Australia with a comprehensive method to assess the economic impact of a disaster in a regional context. These Guidelines follow ‘Economic Costs of Natural Disasters in Australia’ published in 2001 as Report 103 by the Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics which focuses on the national economy and highlighted the need for a local or regional approach. These Guidelines provide a methodology for that approach.