Australia: National land use planning guidelines for disaster resilient communities
This document is intended to provide the context, process frameworks and tools for how to integrate natural hazard risk reduction and resilience into land use planning practice in Australia. Conversely, it also intends to demonstrate to planners and other natural hazard professionals alike how to bring land use planning into natural hazard management processes, thus ‘closing the loop’ on land use and natural hazard management integration in practice. It is hoped that this focus on two-way integration will ensure that settlement planning, social demography and nonhazard settlement considerations can be included in hazard management planning to build resilience over time.