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| Title | Visions of Sharing Responsibility for Disaster Resilience - Account of a multi-stakeholder workshop |
| Publication Type | Report |
| Year of Publication | 2012 |
| Authors | McLennan, BJ, Bosomworth, K, Keating, A, Kruger, T, Towers, B |
| Date Published | March 2012 |
| Institution | RMIT |
| Abstract | This one-day workshop examined the idea and practice of sharing responsibility for disaster resilience. The idea of ‘shared responsibility’ is shaping emergency management thinking in Australia. It has gained significant policy traction following the Victorian 2009 Bushfires Royal Commission and the release of the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience. Similar ideas have been circulating in other sectors for some time. Yet it is not clear what the idea really means or what its implications are for policy and practice. The workshop, held on Thursday 29th March 2012, aimed to address two general questions: • First, the idea: what does the idea of ‘shared responsibility’ mean, and what are its implications? • Second, the practice: is it a useful policy concept, and if yes what needs to be done to implement it, and what could undermine it? The workshop was hosted by RMIT’s Centre for Risk and Community Safety (CRaCS) in the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences. It was organised on behalf of the Bushfire CRC and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility’s (NCCARF) Emergency Management Network. Carbon credits were purchased to offset the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the event. This public account of the workshop has been prepared so that others who were unable to attend the workshop can also see the range of issues and perspectives that were voiced at the workshop. |
