Natural hazard risk in Perth, Western Australia

The Cities Project Perth is a natural hazard risk assessment study conducted by Geoscience Australia and its Federal, State and local collaborators. The project is primarily targeted at emergency managers, risk managers and land use planners who are responsible for reducing natural hazard risk in the most densely populated areas of Western Australia. The project is nationally important because it exposes many risks to Australia ’s fourth-largest city and recommends mitigation actions, as well as providing best practice methodologies of benefit to all Australian jurisdictions. The four-year project estimated the impact on the Perth community of several, sudden onset natural hazards.