Large-scale droughts can have cascading impacts on food security. They can reduce yield, increase food prices, trigger changes in consumption and lead to unstable supply.
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Infrastructure is often seen as the main way to reduce the impacts of climate-related disasters like floods and drought. But cities are complex systems with many factors affecting their resilience.
Following the 2009 Victorian Black Saturday bushfires, more than half the women in one study reported experiencing domestic and family violence. Many had never experienced it before.
Wetlands bear the brunt of much storm damage to the coast. But over the past 300 years, 85% of the world's wetland area has been destroyed.
The small fire and heatwave prone town of Tarnagulla got together, applied for funding and co-produced a resilience action plan so they're better prepared for the next disaster.
Australia can learn from how India used community hubs to bridge the gap between government and local communities in the challenging years of reconstruction.
The impact of climate change on agriculture and food production is clear: the sector will suffer. Here's what needs to be done.
Earth-centred children's programs that seek to build ethical partnerships with Indigenous communities have an important role in learning about weathering climate change.
The species which surround a tree in a forest make up the character of its neighbourhood. Good neighbours can make forests resilient to climate change.
New York City's municipal budget relies heavily on the property taxes of extremely high-value real estate. That drives gentrification and distorts local policy in other ways that hurt residents.
Melbourne and Sydney are members of 100 Resilient CIties, which the Rockefeller Foundation has said it will no longer fund. So what has the global network achieved? And what can we learn from this?
Pacific island nations are often framed as remote atolls facing rising seas and cyclones. But their cities are growing fast, so are efforts to help the most climate-vulnerable people hitting the mark?
City fringe foodbowls supply much of our fresh produce and can increase climate resilience by making better use of wastewater and organic waste. A new roadmap outlines how to protect these foodbowls.
Amid fears that parts of Townsville and other Australian cities might become "uninsurable", making urban areas more resilient and adaptable to flooding is becoming more urgent.
Donald Trump's pick to head the World Bank could well weaken the organisation's importance in international development and finance.
Haiti is extremely vulnerable to climate change. It is also very poor. International donors have stepped in to help the country fund climate mitigation, but is the money going where it's most needed?
Top contributors
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Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Research professor, RMIT University
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Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development, Connected Cities Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School (Learning and Teaching), Griffith University
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Professor of Global Urban Politics and Director, Connected Cities Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Food Systems Research and Partnerships, The University of Melbourne
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Michael Howes is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor, Griffith University
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Associate Director, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Researcher in sustainable food systems, The University of Melbourne
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Economist, UNSW
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics, University of the West of England
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Resilient Cities, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Architecture, Griffith University
