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Planning for natural hazards in a changing climate: best-practice principles
Posted January 16, 2020
Footnotes
1. Macarthur Forest Fire Danger Index with scores over 50 2. Ensure that new developments of private and public infrastructure and assets are not permitted in areas likely to be affected by climate change, without substantial planning controls being implemented (NCCARF, 2017) 3. Consolidate urban development by favouring infill and redevelopment of existing urban areas to minimise urban sprawl into highly vulnerable coastal areas (NCCARF, 2017) 4. Such as the NARCliM data available via Adapt NSW, providing small area projections for NSW and ACT for a number of climate variables and climate impacts including bushfires 5. The use of averages distorts the fact that the acceleration is not even over the coming decades.
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