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- Tasmanian Disaster Resilience Strategy
- Resilience Funding Arrangements
- Mitigating Natural Hazards through Land Use Planning
- Coastal hazards in Tasmania
- Recovery from emergencies in Tasmania
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- Tasmanian Relief and Recovery Arrangements – Natural Disaster Relief to Local Government
- Recovery Partners Network
- Bushfire Mitigation Measures Bill 2020
- Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements
- Tasmania's Protective Security Policy Framework
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Tasmanian Disaster Resilience Strategy
The Tasmanian Disaster Resilience Strategy is a roadmap for building our on-island resilience against natural, human-caused or biological disasters and strengthens our coordinated all-hazards approach to resilience.
The strategy was informed by extensive consultation across emergency management stakeholders and experts, and the Tasmanian public. It supports Tasmania’s emergency management sector to align and advance investment towards a shared resilience vision and provides strategic leadership on disaster resilience priorities.
What is disaster resilience?
Disaster resilience is the ability to anticipate and withstand the shocks and stresses caused by disruptive events. Put simply, disaster resilience is our ability to not only bounce back but adapt to disasters and emergencies. It includes how we prepare for, live through, and recover from the harmful impacts of hazards on our people, places, businesses and our built and natural environments.
What type of disasters could Tasmania experience?
Tasmania is vulnerable to a range of hazards and we are experiencing emergencies more frequently and with more intensity. These events have significant impacts on our communities, economy, infrastructure and environment.
Over the last few years, Tasmania has experienced a number of emergency events including bushfires, floods, severe weather events, pandemic and cyber incidents.
The arrangements to manage these events are set out in the Tasmanian Emergency Management Arrangements
The Tasmanian Disaster Risk Assessment outlines the most likely large-scale disasters that our state could experience.
Today’s disasters demand more than emergency response, they require a whole-of-society effort to prevent, withstand and recover.
Tasmanian Disaster Resilience Strategy
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