Public-private partnerships in emergency and disaster management: examples from the Queensland floods 2010–11 (Australia)

This paper proposes a simple conceptual framework for public–private partnerships in emergency and disaster management that could be applied to research and policy analysis in Australia. The framework proposes three dimensions:

• sector types (public, business and community)
• partnership arrangements (legislated and formal to informal agreements)
• partnership roles (strategic and resilience-building and response and recovery)

This paper describes how the three sectors can work together under various partnership arrangements for preventive or responsive measures in emergency and disaster management. Public–private partnerships during and after the Queensland floods of 2010–11 are used to illustrate the relationships presented in the framework and to give a snapshot of these partnerships in Queensland.

Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Volume 30, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 30-36. The Australian Journal of Emergency Management by the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical 4.0 International License.