Enduring role for UNE disaster research

Published 25 February 2021

UNE research has become a legacy centrepiece of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, which will conclude its nearly eight years of operation in June.

The Australian Disaster Resilience Index, which was developed by a UNE team led by Dr Melissa Parsons, is a core part of the CRC's new Driving Change website, which showcases the Centre's most important research.

The Index provides the first nationally standardised snapshot of how potentially resilient Australian regions are if, or when, they are hit by natural disaster.

In Driving Change, the Index is part of a suite of tools and insights intended to help communities choose the safest and most effective ways to improve their resilience to disaster.

After seven and a half years of research, the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC has built up a substantial collection of operational tools, reports and presentations, videos, scientific journal articles and books, and research utilisation case studies.

To ensure all this information and knowledge can be found and used, the CRC created Driving Change as an online resource that arranges and prioritises the major findings and puts them in a real world context.

UNE researchers contributed to a range of the CRC's initiatives, and continue active investigations into how humans and nature can be resilient in the face of escalating natural disasters.

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