Policy or regulation
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Drought Mental Health and Community Wellbeing Support
Disasters have a direct impact on mental health and a communities’ adaptive capacity and resilience. Rural and regional communities often rely on agriculture, water-intensive industries and nature-based tourism and therefore carry high exposure to drought. Livestock, cropping and much regional employment may depend directly on water.
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Increasing the delivery of Cultural Fire
Victoria is one of the most bushfire-prone regions in the world, and reducing fuel loads on public and private land is central to protecting life, property and the natural environment from bushfire. For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal peoples in Victoria managed fire-prone land through cultural burning,…
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Driving Integrated Water Management (IWM) Through Land Use Planning
The State of Victoria is harnessing Integrated Water Management (IWM), a holistic and collaborative framework to sustainably manage water resources. The IWM approach brings together government, water authorities and communities to ensure a secure and climate-resilient water future. IWM promotes a water-sensitive approach to urban development.…
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Réutilisation des Eaux Usées Traitées (REUT) Treated Wastewater Reuse for Agricultural Irrigation
Région Occitanie has made treated wastewater reuse (Réutilisation des Eaux Usées Traitées, REUT) a central pillar of its water policy, with the aim of becoming France’s leading region for water reuse.
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SB 310 Cultural Fire Agreements
Fuel accumulation, driven by over a century of fire suppression policy, has created landscapes that burn at higher intensity than at any point in the historical record. Climate change is compounding this through drought, heat, and shifting wind patterns that extend fire season and enable larger,…
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Adapting National Plans to Regional Frameworks for Local Implementation
Morocco’s National Sustainable Development Strategy (Stratégie Nationale de Développement Durable, SNDD), adopted in 2017, provides the overarching framework guiding national and regional efforts to accelerate the country’s transition towards a green and inclusive economy by 2030. It is structured around seven priority issues, 31 strategic axes…
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Catalonia’s law 16/2017 on Climate Change- Llei 16/2017, de l’1 d’agost, del canvi climàtic
Catalonia’s Law 16/2017 on Climate Change requires all ministries of the Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya) to incorporate climate adaptation objectives into their sectoral planning and programming. Each department must integrate the vulnerability reduction objectives of the regional adaptation framework into its sectoral plans and…