Community: The Concept of Community in the Risk and Emergency Management Context

'Community' is an important element of Victoria's emergency management arrangements as well as of those of, in greater or lesser degree, other States and Territories and the Commonwealth. Therefore understanding the concept of community is of obvious importance within the context of risk, emergency management and community recovery; but it is a most abused and misunderstood term. The purpose of this article is to start the debate on the manner in which the term community is used within these circles.