Climate change and Australia

L Head, M Adams, HV McGregor… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Australia has had a variable and mostly arid climate as long as humans have been on the
continent. Historically observed trends toward increased warming, with rainfall increases in …

A linked vulnerability and resilience framework for adaptation pathways in remote disadvantaged communities

YT Maru, MS Smith, A Sparrow, PF Pinho… - Global Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
We develop a systems framework for exploring adaptation pathways to climate change
among people in remote and marginalized regions. The framework builds on two common …

Impacts of climate change and extreme weather on food supply chains cascade across sectors and regions in Australia

A Malik, M Li, M Lenzen, J Fry, N Liyanapathirana… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Disasters resulting from climate change and extreme weather events adversely impact crop
and livestock production. While the direct impacts of these events on productivity are …

The role of culture and traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation: Insights from East Kimberley, Australia

S Leonard, M Parsons, K Olawsky, F Kofod - Global Environmental Change, 2013 - Elsevier
Indigenous peoples offer alternative knowledge about climate variability and change based
on their own locally developed knowledges and practices of resource use. In this article we …

Climate change influences on environment as a determinant of Indigenous health: Relationships to place, sea ice, and health in an Inuit community

A Durkalec, C Furgal, MW Skinner, T Sheldon - Social science & medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper contributes to the literature on Indigenous health, human dimensions of climate
change, and place-based dimensions of health by examining the role of environment for …

Indigenous health and climate change

JD Ford - American journal of public health, 2012 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Indigenous populations have been identified as vulnerable to climate change. This framing,
however, is detached from the diverse geographies of how people experience, understand …

Indigenous Australians' knowledge of weather and climate

D Green, J Billy, A Tapim - Climatic change, 2010 - Springer
Although the last 200 years of colonisation has brought radical changes in economic and
governance structures for thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders living in …

Extreme heat and adverse cardiovascular outcomes in Australia and New Zealand: what do we know?

GK Chaseling, NB Morris, N Ravanelli - Heart, Lung and Circulation, 2023 - Elsevier
Extreme heat events are a leading natural hazard risk to human health. Under all future
climate change models, extreme heat events will continue to increase in frequency, duration …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring households' resilience to climate change-induced shocks using Climate Resilience Index in Dinki watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia

M Asmamaw, ST Mereta, A Ambelu - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
This study assessed households' resilience to climate change-induced shocks in Dinki
watershed, northcentral highlands of Ethiopia. The data were collected through a cross …

Understanding constraints to adaptation using a community-centred toolkit

DC Buffa, KET Thompson… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Worldwide, marginalized and low-income communities will disproportionately suffer climate
change impacts while also retaining the least political power to mitigate their consequences …