Publications,
Briefing and
Reports

We must guide civilisation safely through the bottleneck of climate change and species mass extinction, driven by the twin challenges of over-consumption and over-population. Yet ...We must guide civilisation safely through the bottleneck of climate change and species mass extinction, driven by the twin challenges of over-consumption and over-population. Yet guiding this sustainability journey requires enlightenment about our individual and communal carbon… footprints from health care.

Extreme weather and climate-related disaster events are associated with a range of adverse health outcomes… People are not equally vulnerable to the adversity, experiencing varied ...Extreme weather and climate-related disaster events are associated with a range of adverse health outcomes… People are not equally vulnerable to the adversity, experiencing varied patterns of long-term health trajectories in recovery depending on their vulnerabilities, capacities, and resiliencies. This study aims to identify latent mental and physical health trajectories and their associations with person- and place-based pre-disaster predictors.

In this paper we report on a qualitative study from the Break O’Day municipality in Tasmania, Australia, the site of over 20 years of… ecological ...In this paper we report on a qualitative study from the Break O’Day municipality in Tasmania, Australia, the site of over 20 years of… ecological restoration by local people. The organisation leading the restoration work, the Northeast Bioregional Network, observed that well-organised holistic ecological restoration projects could cultivate ecological ethics and improve human health.

Houses in mild-climate countries, such as Australia, are often ill-equipped to provide occupants protection during cold weather due… to their design. As a result, we ...Houses in mild-climate countries, such as Australia, are often ill-equipped to provide occupants protection during cold weather due… to their design. As a result, we rely on energy to warm homes, however, energy is becoming increasingly expensive, and evidence is emerging of a sizable burden to population health of being unable to afford to warm homes causing exposure to cold indoor temperatures.

In this paper we report the annual number of deaths in the ACT attributable to wood heater PM2.5 pollution, which is similar to that… attributed ...In this paper we report the annual number of deaths in the ACT attributable to wood heater PM2.5 pollution, which is similar to that… attributed to the extreme smoke of the 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires. The number of wood heaters should be reduced by not permitting new installations and phasing out existing units in urban and suburban areas.