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Flood Risk Management in Australia: Research Report
(2020)
Abstract
Part of a comprehensive review of flood risk management in five mature economies, this report reveals many successes in the Australian system, including high-quality national and state guidelines and frameworks for FRM activities, climate change adaptation efforts, a commitment to building back better and high levels of insurance penetration. More work is needed, however, to minimise development in high-risk floodplains and redistribute FRM funding from response and recovery to mitigation, with more balance between fire-related hazards and flood.
Keywords
- flood,
- risk,
- disaster risk reduction,
- resilience,
- insurance
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Publication Date
December 7, 2020
Citation Information
Neil Dufty, Andrew Dyer and Maryam Golnaraghi. "Flood Risk Management in Australia: Research Report" (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/neil_dufty/66/