Climate change adaptation
Alternative labels
Climate resilience
Adaptive capacity
Conference paper
Comparing local government adaptation responses to climate change in Australia and Sweden
This paper compares the urban local government responses to the challenges of climate change impacts through a comparative study of Australia and Sweden
Conference paper
Towards a Resilient Sydney' - climate change adaptation planning for Sydney
This paper investigates the relationship between long term strategic land use planning and the future climate, specifically why strategic planning can contribute to a city’s climate change resilience.
Conference paper
Climate justice in the Australian city
This paper addresses critical gaps in existing research by taking a ‘practice approach’ to how we might better support climate justice at the metropolitan scale in Australia.
Report
A literature and practice review for the Research–Policy Project
The aims of this review are to examine the literature on research-into-policy and identify recent developments in research supply, policy demand and the research–policy environment overall; review best practice research-into-policy activities in a range of policy-influencing organisations; develop a work in progress to inform the next stages of the Research–Policy Project.
Technical report
A multi-scale assessment of urban heating in Melbourne during an extreme heat event
Airborne thermal remote sensing can provide an excellent snapshot of spatial variability in land surface temperatures across the urban landscape. This can be used to broadly identify hot-spots across the landscape for prioritising the implementation of excess heat mitigation measures such as green infrastructure. Thermal mapping is an excellent tool for communicating the influence of...