Counting the Costs: Climate Change and Coastal Flooding
A new Climate Council report explores coastal flooding: the sleeping giant of climate change risks.
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How do climate scientists feel about climate change?
Climate scientists write complex research papers, analysing climate change thoroughly and clinically. They understand the numbers, the facts and the figures. But they’re not robots – how do they feel about climate change?
UNEP Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management
The Green Infrastructure (GI) approach refers to the natural or semi-natural systems that provide services for water resources management with equivalent or similar benefits to conventional built water infrastructure. This new guide addresses a general lack of awareness of GI …
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The Future of Urban Water: Scenarios for Water Utilities in 2040
Using Sydney as a reference city, this new report depicts four plausible scenarios, exploring how a wide range of social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends could shape our urban water future.
When to increase urban water supply? And at what price?
The findings of new research indicate that if water utilities and water price regulators were to balance urban water supply and demand by deriving dynamically efficient volumetric prices for residential water then they might avoid premature investments such as the Sydney …
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Species of National Environmental Significance maps released
The Australian Government Department of the Environment has released more than 1,700 new maps and datasets that local communities can use to find threatened species in their area. The maps show known and predicted distribution of listed species, including areas …
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Canberra Nature Map
The Canberra Nature Map project allows the community to report rare and endangered plant sightings and any of the many treasures in and around the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), and view the results.
Wild Melbourne
Wild Melbourne is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the protection of Melbourne’s environment and to teaching people the importance and majesty of native species and landscapes, from Port Phillip Bay to the high country.
Planning for People – A Community Charter for Good Planning in NSW
Prepared by a group of community organisations, the Charter is a 2-page document that sets a vision, key principles and desired outcomes for good planning in NSW. A companion document provides additional detail. The Charter can be endorsed as either …
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What’s your nature? in Brisbane
Coordinated by SEQ Catchments, What’s your nature? aims to connect – both physically and mentally – the Brisbane community to their urban waterways through a range of projects to restore local creeks and green spaces.