National Strategy for Disaster Resilience

National Strategy for Disaster Resilience

Disaster
Policy
2011
See the publication
Year of publication
2011
Specific thematic area
Disaster preparedness, management and/or response
Sector of governance
Disaster
Type of human mobility
Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Internal
Type of environmental driver
Disaster-related events, Generic references to climate climate change
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Both
Type of provision related to human mobility in disaster and climate change contexts
DIRECT GENERAL - Internal migration increases vulnerability to disaster.
Sub-region
Australia and New Zealand
Region
Australia and New Zealand
Macro-region
Oceania
Author/issuing body
National Emergency Management Committee (NEMC)
Relevant GCM objective
    GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse drivers
Child marker
C
Gender marker
C
Human rights marker
C

Many known factors are increasing our vulnerability to disaster. Work-life patterns, lifestyle expectations, demographic changes, domestic migration, and community fragmentation are increasing community susceptibility, as well as altering local social networks and sustainability of volunteer groups.

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*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).