This document is the Supplementary Material to the DECRA24 Community Resilience Consortium's publication in the Australian Journal of Emergency Management (Sept 2024). It summarises the research contributions made by the 26 DECRA24 fellows working on projects addressing the 4 components of community resilience:
- Reducing impact and consequences: Research that will help communities, industries, or systems reduce vulnerabilities, and build capacity and resilience to be better prepared when disasters hit, and therefore reduce impacts on people’s lives, the economy, and society.
- Reducing recovery and renewal time: Research that will assist communities to respond and recover quickly and effectively in the face of disasters. Recovery may include returning to prior or a new state (bouncing back/bouncing forward). This can include research that will improve services available to populations during and post disasters.
- Reducing future hazards and vulnerability: Research that examines/draws on past events and associated learning to inform adaptation or mitigation efforts to reduce future disaster vulnerabilities.
- Reducing future uncertainties: Research that generates new knowledge so systems can adapt/change in the absence of impact; research that supports proactive adaptation to change. This can include new climate models.