Australian Disaster Resilience Handbook Collection

AIDR is currently undertaking a strategic review of the Handbook Collection. Details about this review can be found here.

The Handbook Collection:

provides an authoritative, trusted and freely available source of knowledge about disaster resilience principles in Australia

aligns national disaster resilience strategy and policy with practice, by guiding and supporting jurisdictions, agencies and other organisations and individuals in their implementation and adoption

highlights and promotes the adoption of good practice in building disaster resilience in Australia

builds interoperability between jurisdictions, agencies, the private sector, local businesses and community groups by promoting use of a common language and coordinated, nationally agreed principles.

Current publications

Australian Emergency Management Arrangements

Communities Responding to Disasters: Planning for Spontaneous Volunteers

Community Engagement for Disaster Resilience

Community Recovery

Disaster Resilience Education for Young People

Emergency Planning

Evacuation Planning

Flood Emergency Planning for Disaster Resilience

Health and Disaster Management

Incident Management

Land Use Planning for Disaster Resilient Communities

Lessons Management

Managing Exercises

Managing the Floodplain

National Emergency Risk Assessment Guidelines (NERAG)

Planning for Animals in Disaster

Public Information and Warnings

Safe and Healthy Crowded Places

Systemic Disaster Risk

Tsunami Emergency Planning in Australia

Further resources

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Handbook Collection Management Policy (PDF 918KB)

An outline of the Handbook Collection framework, and the principles and processes that support its ongoing management