Image
More resilient environments
Safer, more resilient home, businesses, infrastructure and landscapes.
We monitor, model and understand risk to the natural and built environment to inform decision-making. This work has led to safer, more resilient homes, businesses, infrastructure and landscapes.
Evidence for significant retrofitting program in Queensland
Empirical evidence for risk, cost-benefit and scalability of resilience program
Image
Strengthened Indigenous community resilience and care for Country
Image
Significantly raised community awareness of need for mitigation work
Image
Groundwork for new building codes, insurance resilience rating systems
Image
I think broadly in our society, we need to have a different relationship with the land and we need a different identity. All of us would benefit so much more if our society was centred around the tens of thousands of years of connection to this land that the First Nations people have.
Preparing Australia’s natural and built environments for disaster
The environments in which Australians live, work and play are increasingly vulnerable to natural hazards. Making these places healthy, safe and sustainable for the communities who use them is key to ongoing resilience.
Based on the findings of research we have funded, buildings and infrastructure across Australia have been strengthened to withstand storms, floods and fire. Our work has influenced the construction and insurance industries and has informed land-use planning.
There are now better strategies for land conservation and management based on our research into effective risk reduction and resilience-building across diverse natural landscapes.
Communities are also more empowered to make their local environments more sustainable, safe and healthy. We have drawn on community knowledge – including Indigenous knowledge – to understand how to care for the environment and reduce risk.
Research in action
Our research with James Cook University
Our long-standing relationship with James Cook University’s Cyclone Testing Station (JCU CTS) has provided impetus for government funding to retrofit of thousands of homes in Queensland, improved building codes, increased understanding of the risk of cyclones, and provided compelling evidence to inform decision making.
More resilient strata properties on the Gold Coast
With strata properties particularly vulnerable to natural hazards, research has driven government programs to fund vital retrofitting works.
Getting mob back on Country
Centre research has led to culturally appropriate and more effective conservation and land management practices by involving Aboriginal people in looking after their traditional lands.