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four year post-disaster timeframe, and the response of Government to these issues. Drawing on the experiences of the authors at both VBRRA and its successor, the Fire Recovery Unit, it will analyse what approaches have worked well, what challenges were faced and what issues remain outstanding. As a result, this paper will provide valuable insight into the role of Government in longer term recovery. Mr Alex Fullick Managing Director, Stone Road inc (StoneRoad) Heads In the Sand: What Stops Corporations From Seeing Business Continuity as a Social Responsibility Business Continuity Management (BCM) can be called a safety net; one that protects a company from collapse when hit by a natural or man-made disasater. But not every corporation sees the value in having a BCM or emergency response program. Many don't fully understand the level of impact a disaster has on its operations, customers, clients, vendors, partners, employees or its surrounding communities. Why? Building upon core human universal fears - Death, Insignificance, Chaos, Outsiders and the fear of the Future, this session will take employees and management as well as emergency and continuity practitioners on a journey of discovery. Using real-world and personal examples, the presenter helps examine and identify the diffuclties organizations have with developing BCM programs and how ignoring these fears; an Ignorance of Security (Death), Respect (Insignificance), Authority (Chaos), Community (Outsiders), Clarity (Future) and a fear of the Truth, can give rise to a lack of awareness and the understanding of emergency and continuity management. Mrs Amanda Gearing Journalist and PhD student, QUT Harnessing the power of real and virtual social networks during disasters The mass media and emergency services organisations are geared to gather information and disseminate it to the public. During disaster situations both the media and emergency services need to continue their information dissemination but they also need to crowd source information using real and virtual social networks to improve their situational awareness. This paper documents how real and virtual social networks were used by a reporter and by members of the public to gather and disseminate emergency information during the 2011 flash flood disaster in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley in January 2011 and in the days and weeks after the disaster.
Dr Lisa Gibbs Assoc Director, Brockhoff Child Health & Wellbeing, McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne Co Authors - Block K 1 , Snowdon E 1 , Gallagher HC 2 , Ireton G 2 , Brady K 3 , Richardson J 3 , Sinnott V 4 , Waters E 1 1. Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne 2. Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne 3. Health and Human Services Emergency Management, Victorian Department of Human Services 4. Australian Red Cross 5. Prevention and Population Health Branch, Victorian Department of Health Mapping shifting community recovery issues over the 4 years post bushfires The primary focus of much policy, research and practice relating to disaster relief and recovery is on the relatively short-term period post-disaster. This of course fails to recognise the often protracted process of physical, economic, psychological and social rebuilding. Beyond Bushfires is a 5 year research study being led by the University of Melbourne that is exploring the interplay between individual and community factors and their influence on recovery from natural disaster over the medium to long term period. The study is using multiple methodologies and involves multiple partners. In building the relationships with communities to support a participatory approach we have met and spoken with many individuals and community groups from bushfire-affected communities in a series of visits and phone calls over the past three years. This has provided a unique opportunity to observe the changing community issues post disaster, to analyse our detailed community visit notes and map those shifting issues over time. The existing partnerships formed with Australian Red Cross and Health and Human Services Emergency Management as part of Beyond Bushfires provided a further opportunity to access community newsletters and Red Cross outreach reports collected since 2009 in the analysis. These documents also reflect the evolving and changing nature of the issues faced by communities. The resulting findings will be mapped against a timeline to provide a unique insight into both the shared and contextspecific community issues that emerged over the four years after the bushfires occurred. This has clear applications for prevention, planning and recovery service delivery for the medium to longer term post disaster. Dr Grant Gillon Senior Lecturer, AUT University Reviewing for Resilience: A fifth phase? During Hurricane Andrew (1992), Emergency Manager Kate Hale famously and publicly expressed her frustration “Where the hell is the cavalry on this one?” The US President (George H. W. Bush) subsequently dispatched the army. But, lessons identified since 1992 tell us that mostly there is no cavalry and communities recover by being resilient. One essential component of a community’s resilience is being involved in all levels and phases of an emergency and this includes any formal reviews of an event. Communities are encouraged to actively participate in all aspects of emergency management but are often left out of a component essential for their very survival and recovery and learning; the evaluation or review. The greater the degree of community connectedness, trust, understanding and shared values, the higher the level of social capital enjoyed by that community. This social capital translates into prosperity and strengthens collaborative ties. Such characteristics are particularly useful when our emergency agencies rely so strongly on volunteer action and a prepared community develops enhanced resilience. A community’s ability to rise above adversity and respond to its own needs has been illustrated
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