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social sciences the current tendency is to discuss disasters in terms of vulnerability and resilience, and from the psychosocial perspective of trauma. There are a relatively small number of programs specifically targeting existing and potential emergency managers. The aim of this paper is to provide a global snapshot of trends in emergency management education in an effort to reconceptualise and inform the development of emergency management as a cohesive stand-alone discipline. Miss Nicole Ishmael Executive Director, EMAP Co Authors - John Ash and David Parsons. Innovative Solutions for Program Sustainment and Continuity The Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) provides a cost effective approach to assess emergency management and disaster management programs based on established standards. Those standards have been written by emergency management professionals and create a strategic guide to ensure your disaster and emergency management program is fully prepared for any hazard. No other organization accredits emergency management programs; gives opportunities for emergency management training; and encourages feedback from professionals in emergency management--whether that is on the standard writing, the accreditation process, or participation on a committee. The peer review process provides a method to measure the capabilities of your program beginning with you assessing your own program first. Accreditation also provides proof that emergency management programs are sustainable and dependable. EMAP creates a network of emergency management professionals that fosters continued support. EMAP is a non-profit organization with a focus in accountability for emergency management and resilience programs. As a panel presentation, the EMAP will engage the audience by providing information on the EMAP standard and how they applied in international pilots conducted in Canada and Australia. The panel presentation will further discuss how the process of assessment and accreditation enhances management capabilities through identifying strengths and areas of improvement; and how it can assist in sustaining program management. Through the panelist, the audience will also receive best practices and experiences of those who are undergoing EMAP pilot assessments in Canada and Australia and how it best benefits their own program. Ms Marianne Jago-Bassingthwaighte Research Fellow, Centre for Disaster Studies Co Author - Associate Professor Alison Cottrell, A/P Human Geography, Centre for Disaster Studies Humanitarian Aid: does rapid response undermine community resilience? Cyclone Nargis, which struck the coast of Myanmar on 2-3 May 2008, provides a case study for analyzing international, state and community responses to catastrophic natural disaster, specifically the relationship between international aid and local resilience. Difficulties of access into Myanmar, and its pre-existing under-aidedness, meant that levels of international humanitarian aid into cyclone-ravaged areas (including Yangon) in the early weeks and months post- Nargis were lower than has been typical elsewhere for similar scale disasters. And yet, a UNOCHA evaluation of December 2008 somewhat paradoxically attributed this lack of international access as a cause of the success of the early response, which was largely community-driven (eg. spontaneous organisations, businesses, and churches). How does this recognition of the success of local response in a context of pre-existing critical poverty sit beside the rapid resource resource provision – and, often, control - that the international humanitarian community offers in response to
natural catastrophe? The discussion is situated within, and contributes to, debates on international good practice for disaster response. Findings support a continued effort to promote community engagement in disaster preparedness and response strategies, and to protect existing local coping mechanisms and nurture resilience. This is apposite as international (eg. UNISDR, Hyogo) and Australian (National Disaster Resilience Framework 2011) continue to increase their focus on community engagement and resilience. Disaster management agencies need to identify strategies that better support, rather than hinder, the kind of spontaneous community galvanization (and uniquely Burmese “culture of sharing”) that led to a surprisingly successful local response to Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. The paper identifies policy and practice implications for international and domestic disaster responses. Ms Doerte Jakob Manager Hydrometeorological Advisory Services, Bureau of Meteorology Co Authors - Dr David Walland, Head Climate Services, Bureau of Meteorology. Dr David Jones, Manager Climate Monitoring and Prediction, Bureau of Meteorology. Variability and trends in temperature and precipitation extremes The severe flooding and bushfires in recent months have been a pertinent reminder of the risks our society faces from extreme weather events. The Bureau of Meteorology provides information about the risks of extreme heat or rainfall occurring, based on historical occurrence as well as short range weather forecasts. These climatological risks can be specified in terms of Annual Exceedance Probability or Average Recurrence Intervals. Conventional definitions of risk are based on the notion that the likelihood of extremes does not change over time. However, in the presence of modes of climate variability - such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) - and climate change this assumption of stationarity is no longer valid. Our analysis of trends and variability of extremes in temperature (maximum and minimum) and precipitation is based on a recently completed high-quality dataset. We have used extreme value distributions to assess trends over the period 1910 to 2009 and to explore the effects of ENSO on temperature and rainfall extremes. Similar analyses could be applied to other sector-relevant variables and indices. Our key findings can be summarised as follows: - To avoid spurious identification of trends in extremes, the analyses have to be based on homogenised data. - Depending on the variable, the effects of ENSO can be of a similar magnitude as long-term changes in extremes and climate change may lead to an intensification of heat extremes under El Niño. - There is a general tendency for shortened return periods when analysing high maximum temperatures but with significant regional deviations from this pattern. Causes for these regional variations are still under investigation. - Trends in low minimum temperatures are typically stronger than in high maximum temperatures. We will discuss a state-of-the-art approach to model the time-dependence of risks by combining information at a regional scale. Mr Valdis Juskevics Social and Economic Statistician, Geoscience Australia Co Author - Ms Shelby Canterford, Demographer, Geoscience Australia The January 2011 Brisbane Floods: Recovery and Resilience More than 17,000 dwellings in the Brisbane and Ipswich area were flood affected when the Bremer and Brisbane Rivers exceeded major flood levels in January 2011. Significant damage was caused to property and many households were severely disrupted for extended periods of time. The disaster prompted a large effort and a range of provisions to enable the clean-up of the direct damage and the promotion of recovery. The disaster provided a valuable opportunity to examine the community recovery following the event and to consequently obtain a better understanding of the resilience of Australian households to flood. During April and May 2012 Geoscience Australia, in collaboration with the New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, conducted a postal survey of residents in the
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