Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29288
Title: The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index Volume II - Index Design and Computation
Contributor(s): Parsons, Melissa  (author)orcid ; Reeve, Ian  (author); McGregor, James  (author); Marshall, Graham  (author); Stayner, Richard  (author); McNeill, Judith  (author); Hastings, Peter (author); Glavac, Sonya  (author); Morley, Phil  (author)
Publication Date: 2020-07-29
Open Access: Yes
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29288
Open Access Link: https://www.bnhcrc.com.au/publications/biblio/bnh-7100
Abstract: Australian communities face increasing losses and disruption from natural disasters. Disaster resilience is a protective characteristic that acts to reduce the effects of, and losses from, natural hazard events. Disaster resilience arises from the capacities of social, economic and government systems to prepare for, respond to and recover from a natural hazard event, and to learn, adapt and transform in anticipation of future natural hazard events. This assessment of disaster resilience estimates the status of these capacities and shows how they are spatially distributed across Australia.
Composite indices are frequently used to summarize and report complex relational measurements about a particular issue. The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index measures disaster resilience as a set of coping and adaptive capacities. Coping capacity is the means by which available resources and abilities can be used to face adverse consequences that could lead to a disaster. Adaptive capacity is the arrangements and processes that enable adjustment through learning, adaptation and transformation. Eight themes of disaster resilience encapsulate the resources and abilities that communities have to prepare for, absorb and recover from natural hazards (social character, economic capital, emergency services, planning and the built environment, community capital, information access) or to adapt, learn and solve problems (social and community engagement, governance and leadership). Across the eight themes, 77 indicators were used to compute the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index in 2084 areas of Australia, corresponding to the Statistical Area Level 2 divisions of the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The index was then used to undertake the first nationally standardised assessment of the state of disaster resilience in Australia. Disaster resilience is reported at three levels: an overall disaster resilience index, coping and adaptive capacity sub-indexes and themes of disaster resilience that encapsulate the resources and abilities that communities have to prepare for, absorb and recover from natural hazards and to adapt, learn and solve problems (social character, economic capital, emergency services, planning and the built environment, community capital, information access, social and community engagement, governance and leadership).
Volume II (this volume) describes in detail the computation of the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index. This includes resilience concepts, literature review, index structure, data collection, indicators, statistical methods, detailed statistical outputs, sensitivity analysis and uncertainty analyses.
Readers interested in the technical aspects of the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index should also consider Volume II. Volume II is comprised of six chapters:
Chapter 1: Design of the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index
Chapter 2: Indicators
Chapter 3: Computation of the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index
Chapter 4: Statistical outputs: ANDRI, coping capacity and adaptive capacity
Chapter 5: Statistical outputs: disaster resilience themes
Chapter 6: Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis
Publication Type: Report
Publisher: Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC
Place of Publication: Melbourne, Australia
ISBN: 9780648275626
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 040604 Natural Hazards
040699 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 370903 Natural hazards
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 961005 Natural Hazards in Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 190499 Natural hazards not elsewhere classified
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: R1 Report
Publisher/associated links: https://www.bnhcrc.com.au/publications/biblio/bnh-7100
Series Name: The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index
Series Number : 493
Extent of Pages: 290
Appears in Collections:Institute for Rural Futures
Report
School of Environmental and Rural Science
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
School of Psychology

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