Table 3.
Number of included sources (see Appendix B) that reported on each type of climate-related hazard by Australian geographic category (urban/rural/Australia in general). The grey shading indicates high research coverage.
| Climate-Related Hazards | Urban Australia | Rural/Regional Australia |
Australia in General |
|---|---|---|---|
| Increased ambient Temperatures * |
16 sample sources (SS) [9,12,16,18,20,21,23,28,47,48,54,55,56,57,58,59] |
6 SS [4,23,51,54,60,61] |
32 SS [4,7,9,10,11,12,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,27,28,44,45,46,47,48,50,51,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63] |
| Extreme weather * |
5 SS [20,23,47,54,58] |
6 SS [4,23,31,54,61,64] |
18 SS [4,11,17,20,23,24,27,31,44,47,50,54,58,61,64,65,66,67] |
| Air pollution * |
2 SS [20,21] |
1 SS [61] |
5 SS [20,21,24,61,66] |
| Ultraviolet radiation * |
1 SS [56] |
1 SS [49] |
4 SS [24,27,49,56] |
| Vector-borne disease and other * |
1 SS [20] |
2 SS [4,31] |
8 SS [4,20,24,27,31,44,66,67] |
| Industrial transitions and emerging industries * | 0 SS | 0 SS |
1 SS [24] |
| Changes in the built environment * |
4 SS [20,21,47,48] |
0 SS |
6 SS [20,21,24,47,48,62] |
| Cascading climate change-related disasters ** |
1 SS [56] |
1 SS [64] |
5 SS [50,56,64,66,67] |