“Disaster risk reduction is aimed at preventing new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development.” - United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
AIDR is commencing the development of a new Disaster Risk Reduction handbook.
The handbook will fill a key gap in the Australian Disaster Resilience Handbook Collection by provide principles and good practices for disaster risk reduction in Australia.
You can view some of the scoping work that will inform this handbook in the further resources section below.