Sink or swim? Response, recovery and adaptation in communities impacted by the 2010/11 Australian floods

Deanne K. Bird; David King; Katharine Haynes; Pamela Box; Tetsuya Okada

doi:10.1002/9781118845028.ch44

Sink or swim? Response, recovery and adaptation in communities impacted by the 2010/11 Australian floods

Deanne K. Bird^*, David King, Katharine Haynes, Pamela Box, Tetsuya Okada

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Risk Frontiers (formerly Natural Hazards Research Centre)

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The Queensland (northeast Australia) wet season and Victorian (southeast Australia) summer of 2010/11 were record-breaking periods. Based on climate models, the IPCC (2012) argues with medium confidence that anthropogenic influence has contributed to rainfall extremes. The research applied a mixed methods approach whereby different qualitative (face-to-face interviews, open response questions within questionnaires) and quantitative (closed questions within questionnaires) methods contributed to different aspects of the study. Many respondents (43%) were living in a singlestorey house (i.e. not raised on stumps or stilts), a single-storey duplex or a ground floor unit. As many Australian disasters occur during the summer when people are on holiday or absent from the community, a network of contacts would be extremely useful.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Applied Studies in Climate Adaptation
Editors	Jean P. Palutikof, Sarah L. Boulter, Jon Barnett, David Rissik
Place of Publication	Chichester, UK
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons
Pages	395-406
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781118845028
ISBN (Print)	9781118845011
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118845028.ch44
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Sink or swim? Response, recovery and adaptation in communities impacted by the 2010/11 Australian floods. / Bird, Deanne K.; King, David; Haynes, Katharine et al.
Applied Studies in Climate Adaptation. ed. / Jean P. Palutikof; Sarah L. Boulter; Jon Barnett; David Rissik. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2015. p. 395-406.

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