@conference {bnh-3901,
	title = {The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: assessing Australia{\textquoteright}s disaster resilience at a national scale},
	booktitle = {AFAC17},
	year = {2017},
	month = {09/2017},
	publisher = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC},
	organization = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC},
	address = {Sydney},
	abstract = {<p>The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index (ANDRI) is Australia{\textquoteright}s first national-scale standardised snapshot of disaster resilience.\&nbsp; Because of its national extent, the ANDRI takes a top-down approach using indicators derived from secondary data.\&nbsp; The ANDRI has a hierarchical design based on coping and adaptive capacities representing the potential for disaster resilience in Australian communities.\&nbsp; Coping capacity is the means by which people or organizations use available resources, skills and opportunities to face adverse consequences that could lead to a disaster.\&nbsp; Adaptive capacity is the arrangements and processes that enable adjustment through learning, adaptation and transformation.\&nbsp; Coping capacity is divided into themes of social character, economic capital, infrastructure and planning, emergency services, community capital and information and engagement.\&nbsp; Adaptive capacity is divided into themes of governance, policy and leadership and social and community engagement.\&nbsp; Indicators are collected to determine the status of each theme.\&nbsp; This paper will present a preliminary assessment of the state of disaster resilience in Australia, and the spatial distribution of disaster resilience across Australia.\&nbsp; We then outline the framing of the assessment outcomes as areas of strength and opportunities for enhancing the capacities for disaster resilience in Australian communities.\&nbsp; The utilisation of the ANDRI into emergency management agency programs and tools will also be discussed.</p>},
	author = {Melissa Parsons and Phil Morley and Sonya Glavac and James McGregor and Peter Hastings and Ian Reeve and Richard Stayner and Judith McNeill and Graham Marshall}
}
