Building resilience to Australian flood disasters in the face of climate change

Sotiris  Vardoulakis; Veronica Matthews; Ross Stewart Bailie; Wenbiao Hu; Luis Salvador-Carulla; Alexandra L Barratt; Cordia Chu

doi:10.5694/mja2.51595

Building resilience to Australian flood disasters in the face of climate change

Sotiris Vardoulakis
, Veronica Matthews
, Ross Stewart Bailie
, Wenbiao Hu
, Luis Salvador-Carulla
, Alexandra L Barratt
, Cordia Chu

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Abstract

As the flood waters are receding in parts of New South Wales and Queensland and new forecasts of heavy rain are released, important questions emerge about the resilience of the Australian health system, and ultimately of our communities, to the intensifying extreme events we have experienced in recent years in the context of climate change.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	342-345
Number of pages	4
Journal	Medical Journal of Australia
Volume	217
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51595 https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51595
Publication status	Published - 3 Oct 2022

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SDG 13 Climate Action

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