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2022 has been Australia’s year of freak floods. Here’s what stricken Victorians are set to experience in the weeks and months ahead.
Again, thousands of residents in Western Sydney face a life-threatening flood disaster. Obviously, nature is a major culprit – but other drivers are also at play.
We can’t let communities face climate change alone. We must get better at adapting to the new climate, and do it before disasters not during.
Flood clusters are not unknown - but what’s new about the floods hitting Lismore is the unprecented height.
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Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Climate Adaptation, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Atmospheric Sciences, Monash University
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PhD Student, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University
