@conference {bnh-2945,
	title = {Evidence-based practice, practice-based evidence: moving towards scaled implementation in child-centred disaster risk reduction},
	booktitle = {AFAC16},
	year = {2016},
	month = {08/2016},
	publisher = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC},
	organization = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC},
	address = {Brisbane},
	abstract = {<p>Disaster risk reduction (DRR) research conducted through the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) is intended to have a focus on utilisation, translation and tightening the policy-practice-research nexus. An important link within this nexus relates to a fundamental proposition: Does the subject under empirical scrutiny have sufficient empirical support to be translated in both practice and policy sectors? In the case of our program of research in child-centered disaster risk reduction (CC-DRR), research has made some bona fide strides in the past 15 years producing data that supports two key questions linked to this fundamental proposition. The first question is {\textquoteleft}Are CC-DRR initiatives effective in reducing risk and increasing resilience for children, families, communities?{\textquoteright} The second question is {\textquoteleft}Can CC-DRR initiatives be sustainably implemented at scale?{\textquoteright}<br>Against this backdrop, this symposium intends to present findings of our program of research from 2014 to the present. These findings are drawn from a major scoping and review exercise, pilot research, co-development and co-evaluation of a practice framework for disaster resilience education and, in 2016, the evaluation of several flagship CC-DRR programs. The symposium will also present our CC-DRR research narrative, the accompanying conceptual framework and utilisation roadmap, and new perspectives on the sustainable and scaled implementation of evidence-based programs.\&nbsp;</p>},
	author = {Kevin Ronan and Briony Towers}
}
