Projects

CSIRO is helping partners adapt to the potentially transformational impacts of climate change on the iconic Coorong wetlands, South Australia. […]

In an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world, planning for a sustainable future requires future-focused and integrative approaches. Our ability to envision alternative futures, to evaluate between them, and to develop plans and make decisions, is crucial for building pathways to a future that balances thriving social, financial, and environmental systems.

Natural hazards lead to disasters if they intersect with a society which is exposed and vulnerable. Prevailing predominant approaches to disaster risk assessment and management place most effort on quantifying the characteristics of the hazard and mapping exposure; with vulnerability largely ignored or superficially considered.