Declan Kuch – The Conversation

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March 6, 2023

As Western Sydney residents grapple with climate change, they want political action

Declan Kuch, Western Sydney University; Malini Sur, Western Sydney University; Stephen Healy, Western Sydney University, and Sukhmani Khorana, UNSW

Voters in the region have long been seen as caring more about their finances than green issues. But living through extreme heat, rain and floods has them focused on living with climate change.

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April 24, 2022

Now we know the flaws of carbon offsets, it’s time to get real about climate change

Declan Kuch, Western Sydney University

After 25 years of carbon market experiments, it’s clear climate policy should not rely on offsets.

February 7, 2021

On an electric car road trip around NSW, we found range anxiety (and the need for more chargers) is real

Amelia Thorpe, UNSW ; Declan Kuch, Western Sydney University, and Sophie Adams, UNSW

Australia has a lot of work to do to overcome the challenges facing electric vehicles users, starting with the lack of a comprehensive national charging network.

Makeshift hospital beds at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne during the influenza pandemic of 1919. Museum Victoria

March 31, 2020

We should listen to coronavirus experts, but local wisdom counts too

Matthew Kearnes, UNSW ; Brian Robert Cook, The University of Melbourne; Declan Kuch, UNSW ; Joan Leach, Australian National University; Niamh Stephenson, UNSW ; Rachel A. Ankeny, University of Adelaide, and Sujatha Raman, Australian National University

COVID-19 presents a social as well as a medical crisis, and we will need many different kinds of expertise to survive it

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