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Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction

Overview

Understanding resilience

The impacts of extreme weather events are felt across infrastructure, housing, businesses, the natural environment and people and families.

There is an urgent need for action by governments, industry and communities to plan and invest to reduce disaster risk and build resilience in the face of a changing climate. These investments need to be made in ways which provide value (for example, opportunity, prosperity and service delivery) to people during stable periods, while also coping with impacts of extreme weather-related events as well as disruptions and shocks.

Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction

Data | Analytics | GIS | Economic Analysis | Agile Decision Systems

In numbers

Why it matters

  • 2,460M+ reptiles, 181M birds, 143M mammals and 51M frogs affected in burnt habitats during the Black Summer bushfires (2019 to 2020)
  • $73 Billion forecast annual cost of damages in Australia by 2060
  • $38 Billion p.a. disasters cost the Australian economy (2021)
  • 92% of Australian Local Government Areas have been affected by at least one disaster since 2013

Key projects

Seeing it in practice

Department of Environment and Water SA

Gawler River Flood Management

Economic assessment of flood mitigation options along the Gawler River, integrating flood modelling with impact analysis for dwellings, businesses and farms under a climate change scenario.

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Bega Valley Shire Council (NSW)

Bega Valley Resilient Road Network

A resilience investment case for Bega Valley Shire Council's road network, using the ERI framework to prioritise climate-adaptive infrastructure investment and secure federal funding.

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Department of Planning & Environment (NSW)

Regional Adaptive Pathways Planning

Multi-hazard risk assessment and adaptation pathways planning for safe and affordable housing across four Illawarra Shoalhaven councils, developed with CSIRO for the NSW Department of Planning & Environment.

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Framework

Enabling Resilience Investment (ERI) Framework

Value Advisory Partners, with CSIRO, have designed the ground breaking Enabling Resilience Investment (ERI) Framework that is unique within the market and supports efficient and cost-effective planning for, and investment in, disaster resilient built environments and infrastructure. The approach responds to the priorities identified in the National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework and National Action Plan 2. ERI identifies the need to pursue all collaborative financing and funding options for disaster risk reduction initiatives.

Discover more: ERI approach Publication: Enabling Resilience Investment

Benefits

Benefits of the Enabling Resilient Investment approach

  • Understand climate change risks and vulnerabilities to places, assets and service delivery, and identify mitigation options

  • Physical and financial sustainability of critical infrastructure and assets under a changing climate

  • Enhanced assessment of damages, losses, co-benefits and costs to prioritise adaptation and mitigation options and build the case for investment

  • Future land use, development and infrastructure plans informed by climate and hazard risks

  • Identify funding sources and pathways across both public and private sectors arising from resilient investment

Publications

Publications

Presentation

Defend? Retreat? Accommodate? How do we plan for future regional settlement in a changing climate

Presentation for Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) National Congress 2025
Darwin
30 May 2025

Presentation focus:

  • Strategic Planning through a Multi-Hazard and Resilient Lens
  • Accessible Practices to Achieve New Ways of Planning for the Future

Presented by Peter Heinmiller and Christopher Marinopoulos

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