Defining disaster resilience: comparisons from key stakeholders involved in emergency management in Victoria, Australia

Natassia Goode; Paul M Salmon; Caroline Spencer; Dudley McArdle; Frank Archer

doi:10.1111/disa.12189

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Defining disaster resilience: comparisons from key stakeholders involved in emergency management in Victoria, Australia

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Defining disaster resilience: comparisons from key stakeholders involved in emergency management in Victoria, Australia

Natassia Goode, Paul M Salmon, Caroline Spencer, Dudley McArdle and Frank Archer

Disasters, Vol.41(1), pp.171-193

2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12189

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Abstract

disaster resilience

emergency management

policy

Three years after the introduction of the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience there remains no unanimously adopted definition of disaster resilience within Australia's emergency management sector. The aim of this study is to determine what the concept means to key stakeholders in the emergency management sector in the Australian State of Victoria, and how these conceptualisations overlap and diverge. Via an online survey, 113 people were asked how they define disaster resilience in their work in the emergency management sector. A data mining software tool, Leximancer, was employed to uncover the relationships between the definitions provided. The findings show that stakeholders see resilience as an 'ability' that encompasses emergency management activities and personal responsibility. However, the findings also highlight some possible points of conflict between stakeholders. In addition, the paper outlines and discusses a number of potential consequences for the implementation and the success of the resilience-based approach in Australia.

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Title: Defining disaster resilience: comparisons from key stakeholders involved in emergency management in Victoria, Australia
Authors: Natassia Goode (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Paul M Salmon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Caroline Spencer (Author) - Monash University
Dudley McArdle (Author) - Monash University
Frank Archer (Author) - Monash University
Publication details: Disasters, Vol.41(1), pp.171-193
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Date published: 2017
DOI: 10.1111/disa.12189
ISSN: 0361-3666
Copyright note: Copyright © 2017 Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. This is the accepted version of the following article: Goode, N; Salmon, P M; Spencer, Caroline; McArdle, Dudley; Archer, Frank (2017). Defining disaster resilience: comparisons from key stakeholders involved in emergency management in Victoria, Australia. Disasters, 41:1 171-193 , which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12189
Organisation Unit: Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449918302621
Output Type: Journal article

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