Written by: Katrina Szetey, Reihaneh Bandari, Enayat A. Moallemi, Nick Taylor, Brett A. Bryan, Shirin Malekpour, Rob Raven, Dianty Ningrum, Michalis Hadjikakou, Martin C. ButcherDisruptr | 15 April 2020
Australia recently experienced unprecedented bushfires, affecting people’s health in many of its major cities and destroying homes and lives.
This is a collaborative piece between Deakin’s Centre for Integrative Ecology, the Monash Sustainable Institutue, DELWP and local community stakeholders. The article addresses the unprecedented environmental and socio-economic impact of recent bushfires, storms and flooding on regional communities in particular and now compounded by the devastating coronavirus. Here we discuss the importance of maintaining government, business and local community commitments to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a means of being more resilient to such disasters.
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