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- Title
Resilience in NSW: the need for a comprehensive, coherent emergency planning framework.
- Authors
McArthur, Tony
- Abstract
The NSW Government has committed to the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience (Attorney-General's Department 2011) that encourages local communities to prepare for emergencies through disaster risk reduction and by building resilience. However, legislative obligations for emergency management in NSW remain focused on the responsibility of the emergency services organisations for specific hazards while these organisations advocate for community engagement. Community resilience requires individuals and organisations to take on more responsibility for preparing for emergencies. However, an 'all hazards' framework to support planning for emergencies has not been made available. By default, most communities expect emergency services organisations to tell them what to do. This creates a contradictory situation where emergency services organisations promote community resilience but resources to support planning are lacking. This can undermine a commitment to community resilience. Once an incident begins, the Australasian Interservice Incident Management System provides a tried and tested method to deal with emergencies based on the 'all hazards' approach. No similar approach has been developed to help communities make plans prior to an emergency. This paper examines current structures in NSW. It proposes that a framework, developed to address bushfire threats to schools in the Blue Mountains of NSW, could be the basis of an 'all hazards' planning framework.
- Subjects
NEW South Wales; BLUE Mountains (N.S.W.); EMERGENCY management; DISASTER resilience; EMERGENCY medical services; GRAND strategy (Political science); COMMUNITY life
- Publication
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 2020, Vol 35, Issue 4, p61
- ISSN
1324-1540
- Publication type
Article