Community Recovery (2018)
AIDR’s Community Recovery Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive guide to community recovery in Australia. It is intended for use by planners, managers and those involved in working with communities to design and deliver recovery processes, services, programs and activities.
The first edition of this handbook, the Australian Emergency Manual Recovery, was developed in 1996. Over the past two decades, many structural changes have occurred in the governance systems and policy development arenas of emergency management and recovery management. This handbook has been updated to reflect those changes.
The goals of this handbook are:
- to explore key concepts, theories and practice frameworks in evidence in Australia
- to contribute towards a common language to enable sector-wide discourse
- to provide concepts, knowledge and resources for practitioners
- to increase confidence, autonomy, innovation, critique and reflective practice for those assisting communities in recovery.
PDF’s of all handbooks are freely available to download on the Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub: https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/collections/handbook-collection/
The Australian Disaster Resilience 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.
