Researchers needed for new climate change adaption study

With climate change affecting how Australians are impacted by natural hazards, researchers are required to lead a new study to help prepare emergency service agencies.

An Expression of Interest is now open, with the project to be funded by the CRC’s Tactical Research Fund.

Preparing emergency services for operations in a climate-challenged world - closing 5 June 2020

The research question the project seeks to answer is: How can fire and emergency service agencies develop and use forward-looking (and linked) climate and social change scenarios to best prepare their businesses so that they can continue to provide effective services in a climate-challenged world? 

The new study will document the current state of knowledge of climate change predictions and projections and to use that information to understand and describe the impact(s) of those changes on the operations of emergency services agencies.

This information will then be used to develop a suite of scenario-based tools that can be used by emergency service agencies across Australia and New Zealand to aid their strategic planning and associated preparedness activities. It is hoped that this will allow those agencies to test plausible futures against their agency’s capabilities.

Submitting a proposal 

Further details on these projects and instructions of the requirements of this EOI can be found here. Any interested parties are encouraged to put forward a proposal. Responses are due by 11.59pm on 5 June 2020. 

Researchers are also encouraged to provide a consortium approach. In this case one party would be nominated as the lead research organisation and have overall responsibility for project delivery.