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

Editorial Material Medicine, General & Internal

High value health care is low carbon health care Culling low value care will cut health care carbon emissions

Alexandra L. Barratt et al.

MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA (2022)

Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Future perspectives of emerging infectious diseases control: A One Health approach

Hannah McClymont et al.

Summary: Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, global awareness of climate variability and the risk factors for emerging infectious diseases transmission has increased, highlighting the crucial interconnection among the environment, humans, and animals. The global response to the current pandemic underscores the urgent need for a One Health approach in controlling and preventing future pandemics.

ONE HEALTH (2022)

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Article Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

Disaster resilience in Australia: A geographic assessment using an index of coping and adaptive capacity

Melissa Parsons et al.

Summary: This study presents a national-scale assessment of disaster resilience in Australia, revealing a distribution where metropolitan and inner regional areas have higher capacity for disaster resilience compared to outer regional, remote, and very remote areas. The assessment also highlights various themes of disaster resilience that impact different communities, such as community capital and social cohesion. Understand the spatial distribution of disaster resilience can help in developing policies and programs to address systemic influences on disaster resilience.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (2021)

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Article Environmental Sciences

Building a roadmap for inclusive disaster risk reduction in Australian communities

Michelle Villeneuve

Summary: Australia has made progress in developing Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DIDRR) at the local community level through cross-sector collaboration and grassroots innovation. The research encompassed inclusive community engagement, capacity development, and defining roles and responsibilities for people with disabilities and their support services, as well as building cross-sector mechanisms for sharing responsibility. Co-designed products are being used to scale DIDRR practices across Australian communities, especially in managing the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic.

PROGRESS IN DISASTER SCIENCE (2021)

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Review Environmental Sciences

The Complex Epidemiological Relationship between Flooding Events and Human Outbreaks of Mosquito-Borne Diseases: A Scoping Review

Jenna E. Coalson et al.

Summary: Climate change is projected to increase the frequency of flooding events, which are associated with higher incidence of mosquito-borne diseases. While research suggests that flooding often leads to increased disease incidence, methodological inconsistencies limit direct comparisons and generalizability of study results.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES (2021)

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Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health