Foundations in Indigenous Disaster Resilience
Project description
This two-year project is informing emergency management policy and enhancing practice through greater understanding of Indigenous experiences of major environmental disasters.
Natural hazards have always been part of the Australian land and seascape. Indigenous peoples have lived and thrived in these environments for many thousands of years and have developed deep knowledge of these events, as well as social, spiritual and adaptive responses that strengthen resilience. Colonisation upended Indigenous ways of life and disrupted conne
ctions with Country and kin.
This project considers how Indigenous peoples are defining and creating resilience in their own contexts, and how disaster resilience structures, processes and institutions are supporting or inhibiting the resilience of Indigenous communities.
This two-year project is funded by Natural Hazards Research Australia to lay a foundation in basic understandings of Indigenous experiences in major environmental disasters, and how they are different to non-Indigenous experiences.
The outcomes of this project will have far-reaching positive impacts for Indigenous communities and the disaster resilience and emergency management sector more broadly, through the following outcomes:
- An evidence-based policy framework for guiding Indigenous disaster resilience policy and practice across Australia.
- Trusting relationships across and between Indigenous communities, peak organisations, disaster resilience organisations and emergency management agencies.
- An Indigenous disaster resilience community of practice.
- New evidence and authoritative guidance as a knowledge base regarding Indigenous peoples and disaster resilience.
- Recognition of the critical roles Indigenous community organisations play in disaster resilience and responding to disaster events.
Learn more about this project via Natural Hazards Research Australia.
Tracking disaster exposure
Researchers
Collaborators
- Natural Hazards Research Australia
- National Emergency Management Agency
- Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience