Building adaptive capacities for disaster resilience: what role for government?
This paper proposes a resilience policy implementation framework that could be applied by practitioners. While there is a general consensus on the types of high-level policies needed for resilience, there is less information about how to translate disaster resilience policy into action. Addressing this gap depends in large part, on appropriate implementation of government policy to foster disaster resilience, including in a multi-level system of government, like in Australia.
The theoretical basis for the framework consists of four networked adaptive capacities for resilience. Other elements include actions that support the development of these capacities and federal policy mechanism. The framework is tested and refined using four case studies corresponding with the four adaptive capacities and using data collected from five resilience initiatives operating within each tier of government and in the business and not-for-profit sectors.
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Volume 31 Issue 1, 2016. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.