Emergency Management

Communication: Climate change adaptation in the boardroom.

This project aims to support Australian businesses to include climate change impacts and adaptation in their decision making processes by increasing climate awareness and capacity at the executive
Communication: Enhancing climate change communication: Strategies for profiling and targeting Australian interpretive communities.

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Adaptation and mitigation: Identifying low risk climate change mitigation and adaptation in catchment management while avoiding unintended consequences.

Some climate change adaptation and mitigation measures proposed for water resources can be considered ‘maladaptation’ as they may have negative or unintended consequences for other elements of the
Uncertainty II: Bridging the gap between end user needs and science capability – dealing with uncertainlty in future scenarios.

This project will work with climate scientists and government and business practitioners to bridge the disconnect between what decisions-makers need and what climate science can provide.
Learning from regional climate analogues

This project explores the potential of learning from experience for selected target cities by studying cities that currently experience climate conditions similar to those predicted for the target
IClimate Project – a searchable database on climate change impacts and adaptation in Australia.

This project reviews and synthesises climate change literature, both published and unpublished, to develop a database of ‘facts’ in a user-friendly, succinct and efficient form.
Investigating factors that inhibit and enable adaptation strategies following the 2010-11 floods.

This project will identify the factors that inhibit and enable adaptation strategies within communities by explore issues of underlying vulnerability and constraints to recovery as well as adaptati
Extractive resource development in a changing climate: learning the lessons from recent weather events in Queensland, Australia.

Researchers will examine the devastating impacts of extreme weather events on mining operations, including the 2010-2011 floods that cost Queensland more than $2 billion in export earnings.
Living with floods: key lessons from Australia and abroad.

The project will compare findings from current flood inquiries underway in Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales with studies from the US, China and the Netherlands.
Flooding in Australia: Damage to buildings during the 2010-2011 Eastern Australia flooding events.

Insured losses from the 2010-11 floods approached $3 billion.