Growing community resilience to risk through shared awareness and preparedness. Posts and tweets are not endorsements, they are 'food for thought'.
Growing community resilience to risk, through shared awareness and preparedness. A collaborative project with the University of Melbourne, the State Emergency Services, The Red Cross, and Melbourne Water. Help support community resilience by completing the survey at www.communityriskreduction.org.au and encourage friends, neighbours, and relatives to do the same.
27/11/2017
The importance of connecting for all facets of life in the city.
A city that forgets about human connections has lost its way The secret of creating attractive, liveable places sounds deceptively simple: connect people to places, people to transport and people to people.
11/11/2017
A lovely presentation by Gretchen Krampf about the importance of "being present to one another" and "working collaboratively through inspired actions"
Bringing It Home: Lessons on Community Engagement | Gretchen Krampf | TEDxSanJuanIsland In these times of global challenge, how do we meet the needs of individuals, families and local communities while nurturing a sense of belonging, a capacity ...
09/11/2017
Changing weather patterns triggers shifts in disaster extremes. Preparing and responding together increases our resilience to these extremes.
2017 is set to be among the three hottest years on record This year is poised to go down as the hottest non-El Niño year ever recorded, with record low polar ice and extreme weather that left many regions battling bushfires and hurricanes.
07/11/2017
Learning together to prepare for future risks is a key component of the CEDRR Project: "Social learning means bringing people of different expertise and experience together to learn from one another to solve problems."
Disrupting the future Science and 'social learning' key to reduce climate disaster risks.
02/11/2017
An older article but still very relevant. Is stronger policy the answer? Are people unaware of the risks? The CEDRR Project explores these questions and many more. These are open for further exploration...
Let's ask the hard questions on reducing our disaster risk Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland has said that Australia needs to rethink its natural disaster policies if it wants to reduce disaster costs in the future and avoid becoming the insurer of last…
29/10/2017
What role does psychology play in disaster evacuation?
Hint: Quite a lot...
Psychology holds key to getting people out before disaster strikes Promoting individual resilience will contribute to reductions in disaster threats for at-risk communities globally.
26/10/2017
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25/10/2017
Today is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction - Together we are working towards reducing the number of people affected by disasters
International Day for Disaster Reduction - UNISDR The UN General Assembly called for the International Day for Disaster Reduction in 1989 as a way to promote a global culture of risk-awareness and disaster reduction. That includes disaster prevention, mitigation and preparedness. It was originally celebrated on the second Wednesday of October (Reso...
25/10/2017
Risk is a complex, highly subjective phenomenon. This article provides an interesting insight into the way our understandings of, and research into, risk continues to change.
Explainer: how our understanding of risk is changing People aren't the perfectly rational, number-crunching risk-takers that traditional theory suggests. Research shows a whole variety of factors feed into risk-taking.
23/10/2017
Why do people stay in, and rebuild areas subject to high levels of risk? In a rapidly changing world the answer to this question will be important in planning for future disasters.
Why people stay in disaster-prone cities There's something in the old adage, 'there's no place like home'.
20/10/2017
Based on your feedback, the CEDRR website is currently undergoing some changes for the launch of version 2.0. We look forward to bringing this to you soon.
19/10/2017
Why participation? Why CEDRR? Lead researcher and developer of the CEDRR concept Dr Brian Cook presents at the 2015 CFA SES Community Engagement & Hazard Awareness State Forum.
Community Participation in Emergency Management - Brian Cook (University of Melbourne) Brian Cook (University of Melbourne) discusses Community Participation in Emergency Management Why and how we should and shouldn’t do it at the 2015 CFA SES ...