@article {bnh-5421, title = {Optimising post-disaster recovery interventions in Australia Annual Report 2017-18}, number = {456}, year = {2019}, month = {02/2019}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

Natural disasters in Australia are very costly, and often have devastating socio-economic effects on impacted communities.

Despite this, the economic impacts of natural disasters in Australia have often been overlooked in disaster management planning. A substantial problem is the inability to estimate the full economic impact {\textendash} both primary and secondary {\textendash} of natural disasters, considering all the affected sections of the economy.

The project aims to assist the Australian federal and state policymakers in building a more sustainable natural disaster recovery model. It investigates the sector-disaggregated economic effects of a number of natural disasters on affected individuals. Through these real-life case studies, the project helps illustrate how these event{\textemdash}of different types and scales{\textemdash}impact and ripple through communities and the broader economy over time. \ 

}, keywords = {emergency management., mulit-hazard, post-disaster, recovery}, author = {Mehmet Ulubasoglu} }