Equity-centred
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Operational Plan to Prevent the Effects of Heatwaves on Health (POCS)
Rising temperatures and longer periods of extreme heat have significant implications for human health across mediterranean regions. These impacts are more acute in urban areas, and it is known that elevated and sustained heat for days causes excess mortality, which ranges from 12% to 40% in developed countries.
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California’s CalHeatScore
Extreme heat is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in California. Heat-health risks vary widely across California’s diverse climates and communities, and the same temperature can have different health impacts depending on local conditions and who is exposed.
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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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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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Cooler Places Guidance
Practical NSW planning guidance for reducing urban heat through urban structure, greening, water and cool materials.
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Demonstration: Regional network of cooling spaces
Illustrative public case study showing a regional network of cooling spaces and a concise, variable-length entry.