The refreshed Index, known as ADRI 2, provides organisations with current, evidence-based insights into how communities across Australia can prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters.
First released in 2020, ADRI has become an essential resource for emergency services, government agencies, community organisations and businesses working to build disaster resilience. The Index is not about individual resilience, but assesses disaster resilience as a system of social, economic and institutional factors.
"ADRI 2 represents an important piece of data contributing to the policy and management of disaster planning and mitigation in Australia," said Associate Professor Melissa Parsons, lead researcher from the University of New England. "By providing this updated snapshot of a community’s capacity for disaster resilience across the country, we're equipping decision-makers with the information they need to develop targeted strategies that reflect place-based conditions."
The updated Index maintains the same robust methodology as the original, ensuring consistency while incorporating the most current datasets. It assesses 2,330 Statistical Areas (SA2s) across Australia, measuring overall disaster resilience, coping capacity, adaptive capacity, and eight thematic dimensions.
The interactive dashboard, developed by Johan Boshoff and the team at UNE CASI (Computation Analytics Software Informatics), offers users the ability to explore disaster resilience around Australia, allowing organisations to develop tailored approaches rather than one-size-fits-all solutions.
Since its initial release, ADRI has become an important dataset for National, State and Local Governments, NGOs industry groups and researchers. . Currently, approximately 320 organisations with around 650 registered users actively engage with the dashboard, with over 65 thousand unique views since the launch of ADRI in 2021.
Monthly usage data shows the platform consistently attracts between 500 and 1,800 unique visitors each month, with usage expected to increase following the ADRI 2 release.
