Adaptation and resilience
Adaptation and resilience is our community’s ability to respond and adapt to a changing climate.
Adaptation and resilience is our community’s ability to respond and adapt to a changing climate.
Adaptation and resilience helps us to proactively plan for both the likely impacts of a gradual change in climate and more frequent larger scale natural disasters. This is important for our growing population and changing economy.
Based on the latest science and recent projections, we can expect our region's climate to change. These changes bring potential impacts to the way we live.
Our natural and built environments, and our communities, are likely to experience:
Becoming a well-adapted and resilient community is a long-term strategy that requires sustained efforts by all of the community. It needs careful planning and timely action by householders, asset owners, communities, businesses, council and the broader community to:
As a region, we need to be proactive with managing current and future risks. We need to increase our capacity to recover from disruptions, even see hazards as new opportunities to do things differently. Being agile and responsive is key to maintaining our liveability and success as a thriving community into the future.
An adaptive and resilient community which anticipates and is responsive to a changing environment.
Outcome
An adaptive and resilient community which anticipates and is responsive to a changing environment.
Resources
Download or read more about our adaptation and resilience initiatives.
Creating our climate ready future.
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Counci has released the Environment and Liveability Strategy Annual Report.
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Council’s ‘Living on the Sunshine Coast’ survey investigates.
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Coastal areas extend from our coastal plains and lagoons to our sand dunes and rocky shores.
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Floods occur from heavy or sustained rain, and stormwater is the runoff.
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Sustainable living is a lifestyle that leaves little impact on the environment.
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