Abstract
Stakeholder workshops were held in Adelaide, South Australia to explore means of building community resilience to heatwaves which, with climate change, will become more frequent, intense and lengthy. The workshops highlighted lessons learnt during the disastrous 2009 south-eastern Australia heatwave, knowledge gaps, and policy areas in need of development. Stakeholders recommended strategies for sound emergency planning and policy, and noted that a multifaceted approach is needed which incorporates broad-based heatwave education programs and community connectedness.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 113-120 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia |
| Volume | 139 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 13 Climate Action
Keywords
- Australia
- Emergency
- Heatwave
- Resilience
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