Strengthening Collaboration in Emergency Management – A Case Study of the Northern Victorian Emergency Management Cluster

“The purpose of this project was to explore an example of collaborative emergency management through the Northern Victorian Emergency Management Cluster (the Cluster), situated in the 2022 flood event, which was one of the most extreme flood events in the state. The Cluster is a formal regional emergency management collaboration including Campaspe Shire Council (CSC), Central Goldfields Shire Council (CGSC), City of Greater Bendigo (CoGB), Loddon Shire Council (LSC), and Mount Alexander Shire Council (MASC). The key research question was: How does a formal collaboration shape emergency management in the context of climate change in regional Victoria?”