Preparedness of Australia Government and Citizens for Natural Weather-Induced Disasters

Research Proposal 1
A REVIEW OF PREPAREDNESS OF THE AUSTRALIA GOVERNMENT AND ITS
CITIZENS TO COMBAT NATURAL WEATHER-INDUCED DISASTERS
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Research Proposal 2
RESEARCH QUESTION
More entirely, this examination aims at responding at particular questions intended to explore
preparedness of the Australia government and its citizens to combat natural weather-induced
disasters.
Primary question
What are some of the approaches that Australia government and its citizens use to prepare in
combating cases of natural weather-induced disasters?
Secondary question
1. What are some of the Implementation patterns of disaster management in Australia?
2. What are obstacles that arise while combating natural weather-induced disasters in Australia
by government?
3. What are some of the coordination set in place for provision of Australian government
assistance in the event of natural weather-induced disaster in Australia?
These essential research inquiries will eventually assist in responding to crucial target of this
mission. The enquiry for this proposal will be essential in enlightening basic justification for
diverse ways that Australian government and its citizens used to prepare in combating instances
of natural weather-induced disasters in the region (Kanyama 2014, p. 17). Therefore, results
from these survey inquiries will remain useful in offering well options or approaches that the
Australian government and its citizens can follow appropriately to combat natural weather-
induced disasters in their daily operations.
INDUSTRY PROBLEM

Research Proposal 3
Due to the perceived influence of changes in climate together with other geological processes
around the entire global society and Australia in large, it appears that nations are becoming
aware of frequent natural weather-induced hazards. Some of these natural weather-induced
disasters that affect Australian community include hazards such as floods, hurricanes, hailstorms,
bushfires, earthquakes, as well as tsunamis (Haimes 2012, p. 1456). Throughout Australian
history, certain natural weather-induced disasters have served as the “focusing events” leading to
the development of advanced policy, legislation, practice, and planning. The situation of natural
weather-induced disaster is further complicated with the rise in instances of terrorism in
Australia and other human-made disasters owing to technological hazards. Such instances have
been an ever-increasing vulnerability of Australian population, and it has also forced the
authority to pay extra attention to their emergency sector of management (Sadiq and Graham
2015, p. 1044). Moreover, Australia is exposed to natural weather-induced disasters as it
experiences cases of bushfires, floods, tropical cyclones, and hailstorms in addition to the few
earthquakes together with human-made hazards. Australia government and its citizen's
experience in the management of emergencies has encouraged their operations to become
innovative, committed, and progressive to offering safer, strong, along with more resilient
communities across the nation prepared to manage any situation that is emergent. This research
proposal reviews preparedness of the Australian government and its citizens to combat natural
weather-induced disasters. The paper also presents some of existing literature under which the
management of emergency sector in Australia develops and flourishes and historical review of
major natural weather-induced disasters.
Causes of natural weather-induced disasters

Research Proposal 4
Some researchers in the region had reported that the incidents of natural weather-induced
disasters in Australia are increasing possibly due to the effects of human activities that result in
global warming and consequential changes in climate. The preparedness of the Australian
government to combat cases of natural weather-induced disasters varies across the country for
different reasons (Chhetri, Corcoran, Ahmad, and KC 2018, p. 12). One of the reasons in the
variation is that the country’s large size as well as longitudinal range. The other reason is that the
country is divided into federal structure of governance. The magnitude along with latitudinal
spread results in some climatic zones from the tropical north through the sub-tropics to temperate
southern regions and the arid central deserts. The prone of the country to natural weather-
induced disaster causes huge destructions of property and in some instances leads to loss of
human and other animals’ lives. It is evident from various investigative works that natural
weather-induced hazards like floods, bush-fires, and humid cyclones arise commonly across
Australia (Howes et al., 2014, p. 761). Such disasters have caused over one point one billion US
dollars damage every year to homes, business operations, together with infrastructure of nation
and severe disruption to communities
Outcomes of natural weather-induced disasters
In the event of occurrences of natural weather-induced disasters in Australia, they often lead to
personal and financial hardship for people, government, and Australian community and can
result in loss of ecosystem. All these effects that come as a result of natural weather-induced
disasters have made the government support activities that prepare to control and combat such
disasters from occurring (Cvetkovic 2016, p. 113). For instance, Australian Red Cross
Organization that deals with emergency (REDiPlan) has outlined some of the steps to prepare for