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Emergency Service Organisations (ESOs) cannot create community resilience; instead they can support and enhance existing community capacity to deal with uncertainty and adapt to change in the future. |
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In June 2010 Tom Lowe, a Senior Research Officer with DSE's Land and Fire Management Division, was awarded a research scholarship by the Australian Emergency Services Foundation. Tom's research proposed to identify the practical steps that Emergency Service Organisations (ESOs) in Australia can take in helping communities prepare for and adapt to natural hazards such as bushfire, flood or storm events. By interviewing practitioners from the Victorian emergency services and academics with expertise in the fields of climate change and human adaptation to change in the UK, the research was able to identify a suite of approaches that could be practicably delivered by ESOs.
