Climate change adaptation: Briefing note 6 – Elected representatives Author: NCCARFYear: 2016 This briefing outlines the challenges that elected representatives (mayors, councillors and ministers) face in preparing for a climate changed future. Climate change has the potential to impact many aspects of life and business in Australia. The severity and rate of climate change will… Read More
Climate change adaptation: Briefing note 3 – Planners Author: NCCARFYear: 2016 This briefing outlines the challenges that planners face in preparing for a climate changed future. Climate change has the potential to impact many aspects of life and business in Australia. Planners are very skilled at looking ahead, to the challenges of the future. Although… Read More
Climate change adaptation: Briefing note 4 – Engineers Author: NCCARFYear: 2016 This briefing outlines the challenges that engineers face in preparing for a climate changed future. Climate change will impact on physical structures, demand new designs and materials, and impact on the way we live in our cities and towns. Engineers have long been at… Read More
Climate change adaptation: Briefing note 1: Community Services Organisations Author: NCCARFYear: 2016 This briefing outlines the challenges that Community Service Organisations face in preparing for a climate changed future. Future climate change is likely to make extreme events (e.g. bushfires and floods) occur more often and/or to become more severe, so increasing the responsibilities of… Read More
Living with Climate Change: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Factsheets for Australia: Human Health Author: NCCARFYear: 2012 Australia experiences considerable climate variability, with periods of extreme dry weather, heat, drought and flood, all of which can lead to illness, disease, injury and death. While the health impacts of sudden extreme events in recent years has… Read More
Living with Climate Change: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Factsheets for Australia: Emergency Management Author: NCCARF Year: 2012 Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of some extreme climatic events and natural disasters, including storms, droughts, heatwaves, bushfires and floods. Emergency management organisations are on society’s frontline in preparing for such events:… Read More
Living with Climate Change: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Factsheets for Australia: Indigenous Communities Author: NCCARFYear: 2012 This factsheet provides a short summary of the potential climate change impacts on Australia’s Indigenous communities. Indigenous communities can be vulnerable to climate change if they live in remote areas subject to extreme events, those whose livelihoods have… Read More
Enhancing disaster resilience and adaptability Authors: Helen Boon, Joanne Millar, David Lake, Alison Cottrell and David KingYear: 2012 This factsheet describes the implementation and findings of a project that examined the community resilience of four disaster impacted communities: Beechworth (bushfire) and Bendigo (drought) in Victoria and Ingham (flood) and Innisfail (cyclone) in Queensland.The resilience of… Read More
Flood and drought resilience lessons for the mining industry Authors: Vigya Sharma, Shashi van de Graaff, Barton Loechel and Daniel FranksYear: 2012 This factsheet summarises key findings from a project that investigated coal mining operations in Queensland, and examined climate-influenced drought and flooding challenges relevant to the future viability of the industry and local communities.… Read More
Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in Small Inland Communities Affected by Drought Author: NCCARFYear: 2012 This factsheet summarises key findings from a case study on limits to adaptation in small inland communities affected by drought. This case study looks at water trading in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) as a market-based instrument (MBI) for climate change… Read More
