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Displaying 15 of about 685 resultsThis research investigates the themes of Good health and wellbeing, and Gender equality, two of the United Nations Sustainability Goals (United Nations (2015). The research shared in this report was conducted nine months after the February 2022 flood event that impacted the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. Researchers undertook focus groups and inter…
This report is a companion piece to the Major Incidents Report 2022–23, drawing upon some of these findings. Using the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) societal, economic, environmental, geopolitical, technological risk categories, and their global risk projections for 2022, a range of factors were identified as potentially having an influence on an individ…
This report provides a summary of selected significant extreme weather and climate events which occurred across Australia in 2023. The report provides a description of each event and an explanation which reflects our understanding of the causes.The report also provides an overview of selected international events including Antarctica. This document…
This study aimed to develop an approach for quantifying wildfire likelihood that is both computationally efficient and able to consider contagious and directionally specific fire behaviour properties across multiple spatial ‘neighbourhood’ scales. To effectively reduce future wildfire risk, several management strategies must be evaluated under plausible…
Bushfires, floods, and storms are a part of the Australian experience. In recent years they have become more common and the impacts, more intense. Moreover, in the future, climate change will mean that extreme events will become more frequent and intense. This presents a challenge to communities that are exposed to natural hazards.
Insurance is key for…
This paper provides a summary of three separate papers looking at the impact and responses to the 2020 Black Summer Bushfire crisis, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic that followed. In Bushfire resilience and bushfire behaviour the research team provides a detailed literature review of the behavioural and social science literature related to bushfire pre…
This study builds on natural hazards behavior, community development, participatory, and codesign research to understand current community engagement approaches in an Australian context. Key principles for engaging communities were operationalized from document analysis and interviews with 30 community engagement practitioners from 25 Australian emergen…
This seventh biennial State of the Climate report draws on the latest national and international climate research, encompassing observations, analyses and future projections to describe year-to-year variability and longer-term changes in Australia’s climate. The report is a synthesis of the science informing the understanding of Australia’s climate. It…
This act provides for the adoption of measures necessary for the protection of life and property from the effects of disasters and emergencies. Section 15(a) provides a general necessity for the territory director to obviate or alleviate an actual or imminent occurrence. Other provisions relating to disaster risk reduction include: section 15(j) which c…
An act to establish strategies and systems for the management of emergencies. Section 27 of the act deals with recovery operations. Other sections dealing with functions related to disaster risk management include section 9(1)(g), section 15, section 22(1), section 24(1), and section 33 briefly addresses livelihoods.
This strategy seeks to manage the two significant future challenges Melbourne is facing - climate change and urban growth - and to protect the city against future vulnerability by providing a robust strategic framework for the evolution and longevity of Melbourne's urban forest.
The strategy aims to: (i) adapt the city to climate change; (ii) mitigate…
This report summarizes the outcomes and technical discussions of the first Nansen Initiative Regional Consultation that took place from 21–24 May 2013 on Rarotonga, Cook Islands: “Human Mobility, Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Pacific”.
The overall objective of the Pacific Consultation was to identify specific challenges facing t…
This study provides evidence that lowering the cost of accessing flood risk information increases public understanding of the risk of flood events. It exploits a pair of events to generate this conclusion: in July 2008, the Brisbane City Council released property level flood risk reports online, and, in 2011, Brisbane suffered a flood event.…
This study estimates the frequency with which earthquake-generated tsunamis of any given “size” occur around Australia’s coastline. It represents an update of the previous national Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment (PTHA) conducted by Geoscience Australia (Burbidge et al., 2008a). Herein the latter study is referred to as the PTHA08, and the…
This report from the Australia Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade provides an overview of the key ways in which climate change threatens national security. It discusses national measures to improve Australia's climate security, and includes particular suggestions for the Department of Defence from the evidence. The report a…