Community Recovery Plan for Bushfire in Victoria, Australia

Assessment Two -
Essay: Report on
Community Recovery
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Summary
This is a disaster recovery plan for a bushfire
in Victoria of Australia. It includes brief
analysis on strategies that must be
implemented to ensure successful recovery
management. Key learning from this paper
highlights key principles such as coordination,
communication, community led approach to
address holistic approach towards disaster
recovery. It also include information on major
economic, social and environmental losses
due to fire, strategies that can be undertaken
to address the same, it also states 10 step
recovery management process that might
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help committee for better recovery execution,
finally it include brief evaluation plan to
calculate its success and areas of concern.
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Table of Contents
Summary...............................................................2
Introduction...........................................................5
Purpose of this report............................................6
Overview of the community in question................6
Background of the issue.......................................8
Aftermath the fire..................................................9
Key principle.......................................................10
Understanding the context..............................12
Recognizing the complexity.............................13
Community led recovery..................................15
Coordination and collaboration........................16
Effective communication.................................17
Acknowledging and building capacity..............19
Continuous improvement and evaluation........20
Key strategies.....................................................21
Social impact...................................................22
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Environmental impact......................................23
Economic impact.............................................24
Stages of effective emergency management
plan..................................................................25
Recommendations..............................................28
Evaluation...........................................................29
Conclusion..........................................................36
Bibliography........................................................38
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Introduction
Disaster is serious disruption in community life
causing death or serious injuries. This paper
presents brief analysis on strategies and
procedures that can be used for overcoming
situation of emergency. It includes foresight of
risk and countermeasures to overcome the
same.
Purpose of this report
This is a disaster management plan prepared
on a hypothetical scenario of community
emergency. It is prepared by emergency
manager to provide a brief on recovery phase.
This paper includes brief introduction of
scenario, principle of recovery management,
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its strategies, recommendations and
evaluation plan.
Overview of the community in
question
Community that suffers most due to bushfire
includes Beechworth, Bendigo, Bunyip,
Churchill, Horsham, Kinglake, Narre Warren,
Redesdale, and Upper Ferntree Gully
(knowledge.aidr.org.au, 2009). Total
population of victoria region is around 63 lakh,
with around 40 percent of population prone to
bushfire issue; it is most bush fire prone area
in Australia. There has been use of fire for
complex land management tools by aboriginal
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community, there had been use of fire and
heat to burn grass and bush for development
and modernization in city. Though fire has
also favoured survival and spread of fire
resistant plant but scenario has also started to
change as uncontrolled burning has become
major threat to people life and public property.
This caused intervention by government
through policy restrictions on the use of fire to
limit the use of fire to minimum as agricultural
tool.
Background of the issue
This paper is based on bushfire in Victoria. A
series of bushfire occurred in Victoria killing
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