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Special report _Update to the economic costs of natural disasters in Australia
Documents and publications
This Special report updates and builds on previous estimates of the costs of natural disasters with new, more comprehensive data and extends the analysis to estimate costs under different climate change scenarios.
 The Alignment of Australia’s National Construction Code and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Achieving Resilient Buildings and Communities
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This report describes how the risks associated with extreme weather events induced by climate change are increasingly being recognized, and must be addressed through each country’s construction regulations, building codes, and standards.
Neighbourhood Issue: Climate costs and risks to councils
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The findings and case studies in this report paint a picture of the impacts and scale of the challenge councils face, but also outline a pathway to overcome them. Additionally, it offers 22 recommendations for all levels of government, chief of which is

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This week's Manchester Briefing (Issue 42) details the University of Manchester's Recovery and Renewal Framework, where updates to the framework are explored, its development since April 2020, and how the framework might be applied in practice.
Enhancements of the Australian exposure information platform
Documents and publications
Hazard Note 105 summarises the improvements of the AEIP and presents the new Dashboard for use.
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This is the final project report of the Recovery Capitals (ReCap) project. The project aimed to promote wellbeing after disasters by examining the disaster recovery evidence base and producing a set of resources to help guide recovery efforts.
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Documents and publications
This report sets out to better understand people's experience of recovery, and what preparedness steps they had undertaken pre disaster.
A Pathway to Infrastructure Resilience -Advisory Paper 1: Opportunities for systemic change
Documents and publications
The aim of this collaborative research project is to build expertise, momentum for change and set a strategic direction for how to plan infrastructure to respond to natural and non-natural threats

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