Australian cities remain woefully unprepared for the more extreme weather we are already seeing with climate change. But some cities overseas stand out for having developed readymade solutions.
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Both when disaster strikes and when climate change has more everyday impacts, community radio stations play a leading role in helping locals understand and adapt to the challenges they face.
To keep up with climate-related disasters, we need transformational solutions. These range from ‘sponge cities’ and floating houses to putting out bushfires minutes after they start.
It’s a landmark agreement, acknowledging for the first time that wealthy countries bear some responsibility to help. But it leaves many unanswered questions.
The human population has doubled in 48 years, and worsening climate change has left the world facing serious health risks, from infectious diseases to hunger and heat stress.
COP27 is Australia’s chance to join the global climate effort, but we’ll need to bring more to the table to be taken seriously.
Property buybacks and managed retreat from high-risk areas were once seen as far-off options as the planet warms. Now this ‘last resort’ adaptation to climate change is an urgent priority worldwide.
It is deeply regretful that the budget and forward estimates don’t specifically recognise the ongoing scale and the fiscal impact of climate disasters.
Decades of research shows disasters are caused human vulnerabilities rather than the climate itself.
Industrial-sized confinement farming systems pose massive challenges during hurricanes, floods or wildfires, including significant public health, animal welfare and socio-economic implications.
Top contributors
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Journalism, Media and Communication, Griffith University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Professor of International Relations, Boston University
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Research Officer, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies, Griffith University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment, Concordia University
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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Dean of the School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
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Head, Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
