On Friday, 20 January 2012, the federal government released a report prepared by Maddocks for the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.
The report – "The Role of Regulation in Facilitating or Constraining Adaptation to Climate Change for Australian Infrastructure" – examines the regulatory frameworks affecting some of Australia's most important …
Climate change is a challenging contemporary issue, which is testing the boundaries of how far planning policy and practice can be used to meet communities' expectations.
Climate change and its various consequences have resulted in a new environment for councils and, especially, for their planners. In particular, planners face:
A new physical environment, in which the effects of climate change are increasingly evident.
A new regulatory environment, in which legislative and policy responses have been developed to deal …
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