Climate change was behind 15 weather disasters in 2017 washingtonpost.com/science/2018/1…

According to unisdr 87% of disaster-related spending goes on response, reconstruction & rehabilitation. Just 13% goes towards managing the root risks which cause disasters in the first place. It would be much cheaper to invest in #resilience #SendaiFramework

Extreme weather in 2018 & #climatechange - “Trenberth believes that major reports from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. National Climate Assessment have been too conservative in estimating the costs of changing climate.” washingtonpost.com/science/2018/1…

Can we do better in 2019? 20 YEAR DISASTERS SCORECARD Climate disasters = 91% of total Extreme weather = 77% US$3 trillion losses; #Floods #drought #storms = 94% people affected; #Earthquakes & #tsunamis = 56% deaths; #ResilienceForAll #SendaiFramework bit.ly/2yC2j3R

“Most transformations require altering, or rewiring, the way that power and resources are structured and how they move through societies.” How do we rewire power dynamics & resource management in practice to prevent the dominance of developed nations over #sustainabledevelopment?

Our Deputy Director Greg Foliente was featured in an ABC News story this summer on #disasters in Indonesia. Read more here 👇 bit.ly/ABCgfoliente

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#Earthquakes and #tsunami accounted for the majority of 10,300 lives lost in 2018 but extreme weather events accounted for most of the 61.7 million people affected by natural hazards #climatechange #flood #storm #drought #ResilienceForAll #SendaiFramework bit.ly/2WgH4zf

In the face of #climatechange, we enter the age of weather extremes - The New York Times apple.news/AE9crgsueQ-udr…

Dr Benny Chen from the CDMPS can talk about a new fire incident report system that can visualise volunteer firefighting capacity across Victoria and analyses past fire and emergency surge capacity responses from 1999 – 2015.

Significant milestone: Vic government has released the Vic Digital Asset Strategy (#VDAS) framework/report for the delivery and whole-life management of it engineering assets. Privileged to contribute and coordinate @unimelb 's contributions to the report opv.vic.gov.au/Office-of-Vict…

Today is the tenth anniversary of Black Saturday. We remember the people who died, and those whose lives changed forever. We also remember the emergency services, the agencies, and the volunteers who helped with an event that was too great to deal with alone. We remember.

Today marks 10 years since Black Saturday, the nation’s deadliest bushfires. Dr Benny Chen from the CDMPS can talk about a new fire incident report system that can visualise volunteer firefighting capacity across Victoria. go.unimelb.edu.au/34q6

Today, on the 10th anniversary of Black Saturday, we would like to acknowledge the enduring impact of disaster and recognise our affected communities. We thank our collaborator Prof Lisa Gibbs @BeyondBushfires for her research into community recovery: bit.ly/pursuit-black-….

Now more than ever, we need research that will help us prepare for the extreme events that have become commonplace in today’s world. This piece explores how our CDMPS disaster modelling could help us build a more disaster-resilient future: bit.ly/pursuit-new-ex….

Mark Crosweller, Head of National Resilience Taskforce, gives a talk on the National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework at the @unimelb's Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety (CDMPS ). The Framework sets a new vision for reducing disaster risk in Australia.

Professor Abbas Abbas Rajabifard has been selected as one of the University of Melbourne's inaugural Sustainability Fellows and awarded a Sustainability Fellowship. These fellowships were established to catalyse the embedding of sustainability in the University curricula.