Early Insights for More Resilient Communities Dashboard

Extreme climate events such as droughts, bushfires and floods are no longer a once in a lifetime event. Such events often have a cumulative effect on communities and there are currently very few tools for identifying the early warning signs or detecting changes in community wellbeing over time.

The Early Insights for More Resilient Communities project focused on developing a tool that allows us to identify changes in community resilience sooner, so support services can tailor solutions where they are needed to assist individuals, groups and communities to work through change.

Bringing together preeminent researchers, the latest literature, and a range of disparate and novel data sets – such as social media use and buying patterns – the project has developed a set of indicators that can act as early warning signals to measure changes in resilience.

Read the project fact sheet to find out more

The result is the Early Insights for More Resilient Communities Dashboard, an online tool that lets people explore resilience resources in their local government area and beyond.

Read the impact case study to find out how Alpine Valleys Community Leadership uses the dashboard to turn abstract concepts like resilience into something tangible and actionable.

Project reports

Learn more about prioritising resilience indicators and read the full research report, including appendices.

Project partners

This project is a collaboration across Southern NSW Innovation Hub, Charles Sturt University, Australian National University, University of Canberra, and University of Wollongong.

Project funding

This project is part of our Agricultural Innovation Hubs Program, a joint initiative with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in alignment with the National Agricultural Innovation Priorities.

Resilient Communities dashboard project funders and partners