Handbook Compendium

A set of 17 Handbooks from the Australian Disaster Resilience Handbook Collection that provide guidance on national principles and practices for disaster resilience.

The Australian Disaster Resilience Handbook Compendium includes:

1. Australian Emergency Management Arrangements (2023)

2. Community Engagement for Disaster Resilience (2020)

3. Community Recovery (2018)

4. Communities Responding to Disasters: Planning for Spontaneous Volunteers (2018)

5. Disaster Resilience Education for Young People (2021)

6. Emergency Planning (2020)

7. Evacuation Planning (2023)

8. Flood Emergency Planning for Disaster Resilience (2020)

9. Health and Disaster Management (2019)

10. Incident Management (2023)

11. Land Use Planning for Disaster Resilient Communities (2020)

12. Lessons Management (2019)

13. Managing Exercises (2023) 

14. Managing the Floodplain (2017) 

15. Safe and Healthy Crowded Places (2018)

16. Systemic Disaster Risk (2021)

17. Planning for Animals (2024)

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.