The Climate Futures Team has won a major grant from the Australian Government’s Disaster Ready Fund. A Natural Hazards Atlas for Tasmania: mapping natural hazards to build disaster resilience and preparedness is a project led by Dr Kathleen Beyer, the Climate Futures Team’s Director. The project has been awarded $2,247,890. The Natural Hazards Atlas for Tasmanian Communities […]
The University is ranked 1st in the world – for the second year running – for the specific goal of “Climate Action”. Times Higher Education has announced that the University of Tasmania is ranked 5th in the world for its performance against the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The University is ranked 3rd in the world for the “Life below Water” goal […]
Climate Futures is excited to announce that the Curious Climate Schools project has won a Green Gown Australasia Award for Benefitting Society. Curious Climate Schools was established by a group of researchers, including Climate Futures team members, to provide for a lack of holistic learning on climate change in the Australian school curriculum. The Curious […]
Climate Futures has been working closely with Wine Australia to produce a new, comprehensive ‘Climate Atlas’ which lays out climate change-induced effects on Australia’s wine growing regions, and identifies pathways to adaptation. A three-year project with the University of Tasmania brought together an extensive, multi-disciplinary research team to consider the impact of seasonal climate variability […]
This project extended previous research to include greater understanding of potential vegetation change and consider the combined effects of extreme climate conditions associated with high fire danger, aspects identified by Tasmanian fire managers as being necessary to help them make decisions about the timing of prescribed burning in the future. The project assessed changes in […]
This project built on previous Climate Futures research which suggested that fire danger may increase across much of Tasmania under ongoing climate change, with the fire season starting earlier in the year, and lasting for longer. This trend has important consequences for the ability to manage bushfire risk using prescribed burning, which is currently the […]
