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.
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.
We have a legislative role in land use planning and disaster management. We support communities to be more resilient. We also manage and maintain public infrastructure to respond to climate change.
An adaptive and resilient community which anticipates and is responsive to a changing environment.
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