Recovery glossary
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Recovery
Disaster recovery is a coordinated process of supporting disaster-affected communities - through support for emotional, social and physical well-being; reconstruction of physical infrastructure; and economic and environmental restoration (including regeneration of the natural environment, associated infrastructure, heritage sites and structures, and the management of pollution and contamination).
Recovered
According to the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, recovered is being able to lead a life that individuals and communities value living, even if it is different from the life they were leading before the disaster event.
Functional Recovery Groups
Functional Recovery Groups provide a platform to coordinate effort by all agencies involved in recovery. The five functional recovery groups are Human and Social, Economic, Environment, Building, and Roads and Transport.
Relief
Relief is the effort to meet the immediate needs of persons affected by a disaster, to minimise further loss through the provision of immediate shelter and basic human needs.
Resilience
Resilience is a system's or community’s ability to rapidly accommodate and recover from the impacts of hazards, restore essential structures and desired functionality, and adapt to new circumstances.
Recovery glossary resources
The Queensland Disaster Management Lexicon (the Lexicon) establishes a resource for common language within the Queensland disaster management sector. The Lexicon promotes a shared situational awareness during events, contextualised to Queensland's disaster management arrangements. This shared languages enables a greater degree of interoperability across State and federal agencies, local councils and non-government organisations involved in all phases of disaster management in Queensland. The Lexicon aims to not only provide a clear definition for terms used across the disaster management sector, but also clarify the relationship between similar terms used. Further examples can be found using the links below.
Queensland's Prevention Preparedness, Response and Recovery Disaster Management Guideline outlines a comprehensive end-to end process for the steps to be undertaken through each of the phases of disaster management, specifically addressing roles and responsibilities of disaster management stakeholders, prevention and mitigation strategies, preparedness arrangements and considerations for planning, the activation of response arrangements, the recovery process and financial arrangements.
https://www.disaster.qld.gov.au/dmg/Pages/DM-Guideline.aspx
The Glossary provides a consensus on terms and definitions or information on the range of terms and definitions encountered in disaster and emergency management to account for jurisdictional and contextual variation.
