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- Title
Shared responsibility, community engagement and resilience: international perspectives.
- Authors
McLennan, Jim; Reid, Karen; Beilin, Ruth
- Abstract
Australia's National Strategy for Disaster Resilience (Attorney- General's Department 2011) has a central principle of shared responsibility that has influenced the policies and practices of Australia's emergency management sector. However, the notion of 'shared responsibility' remains controversial. As part of a research project examining aspects of shared responsibility, seven international authorities in natural hazard mitigation policy were interviewed about their understandings of hazard threats, shared responsibility and community resilience in their own countries. The aims of this study were to analyse these international views to clarify what constitutes shared responsibility as a policy to develop resilience and to better understand how it might operate effectively. While there were differences in perspectives compared with the Australian policy, the centrality of the role of government agencies was acknowledged by all and the importance of community education was emphasised by some. Several aspects of shared responsibility were considered problematic, especially relationships between government agencies and community groups. Findings point to shared responsibility involving government and community organisations being viable if they are collaborative endeavours. A framework is suggested to assess the levels of collaboration in such endeavours.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; HAZARD mitigation; DISASTER resilience; EMERGENCY management; RESPONSIBILITY; GOVERNMENT agencies
- Publication
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 2019, Vol 34, Issue 3, p40
- ISSN
1324-1540
- Publication type
Article