- Title:
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The Future of Flood Emergency Management in Australia
- Date:
- September 2010
- Organisations
- AFAC 2010 Conference
- Authors:
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Andrew Gissing, Victoria State Emergency Services
Stream 4
Download the presentation slides here. A summary is available from the link above. - Location:
- Australia, Australia
Overview
The start of the 21st century has seen emergency services developing their flood emergency management capability in increasingly challenging and uncertain circumstances. Key trends and challenges currently facing flood emergency management agencies include climate change; poor community preparedness for flooding; lack of flood experience in agencies and flood-liable communities; demographic change and management of community information and warnings.
This paper discusses some potential future advances in flood emergency management agencies. These include: enhanced community education programs for flooding; improved flood warning systems (including the use of the national telephone-based emergency warning system); increased use of technology; improved flood emergency planning (for example through the incorporation of evacuation modelling); promotion of best-practice flood emergency management principles; and improved national collaboration. In addition, the paper will explore the importance of relationships between emergency management and floodplain management agencies in managing future trends and challenges.
