Sink or swim? Response, recovery and adaptation in communities impacted by the 2010/11 Australian floods
Bird, Deanne K., King, David, Haynes, Katharine, Box, Pamela, and Okada, Tetsuya (2015) Sink or swim? Response, recovery and adaptation in communities impacted by the 2010/11 Australian floods. In: Palutikof, Jean P., Boulter, Sarah L., Barnett, Jon, and Rissik, David, (eds.) Applied Studies in Climate Adaptation. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK, pp. 395-406.
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Abstract
The Queensland (northeast Australia) wet season and Victorian (southeast Australia) summer of 2010/11 were record-breaking periods. Based on climate models, the IPCC (2012) argues with medium confidence that anthropogenic influence has contributed to rainfall extremes. The research applied a mixed methods approach whereby different qualitative (face-to-face interviews, open response questions within questionnaires) and quantitative (closed questions within questionnaires) methods contributed to different aspects of the study. Many respondents (43%) were living in a singlestorey house (i.e. not raised on stumps or stilts), a single-storey duplex or a ground floor unit. As many Australian disasters occur during the summer when people are on holiday or absent from the community, a network of contacts would be extremely useful.
| Item ID: | 37720 |
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| Item Type: | Book Chapter (Research - B1) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-118-84501-1 |
| Keywords: | disasters, northeast Australia |
| Funders: | Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Australian Government, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2015 23:35 |
| FoR Codes: | 05 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 0502 Environmental Science and Management > 050205 Environmental Management @ 50% 16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1604 Human Geography > 160499 Human Geography not elsewhere classified @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9603 Climate and Climate Change > 960311 Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability @ 50% 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9603 Climate and Climate Change > 960301 Climate Change Adaptation Measures @ 50% |
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