SueAnne Ware – The Conversation

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January 8, 2021

Cities could get more than 4°C hotter by 2100. To keep cool in Australia, we urgently need a national planning policy

Mark Maund, University of Newcastle; Kim Maund, University of Newcastle; Marcus Jefferies, University of Newcastle, and SueAnne Ware, University of Newcastle

Cities occupy just 3% of the Earth’s surface, yet more than half the world’s population live in urban environments. We need nation-wide plans to keep our cities cool so no one gets left behind.

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November 4, 2020

90% of buildings in bushfire‑prone areas aren’t built to survive fires. A national policy can start to fix this

Mark Maund, University of Newcastle; Kim Maund, University of Newcastle; SueAnne Ware, University of Newcastle, and Thayaparan Gajendran, University of Newcastle

The bushfire royal commission handed down its final report last week, but stopped short of recommending a national town planning policy.

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August 26, 2020

The NSW bushfire inquiry found property loss is ‘inevitable’. We must stop building homes in such fire‑prone areas

Mark Maund, University of Newcastle; Kim Maund, University of Newcastle; SueAnne Ware, University of Newcastle, and Thayaparan Gajendran, University of Newcastle

We should stop developing into high-risk areas, as the associated land clearing is too significant to our ecosystems and may still result in houses being lost.

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March 9, 2020

We’re innovative when housing bushfire victims. Why not all the homeless?

Mark Maund, University of Newcastle; Kim Maund, University of Newcastle; SueAnne Ware, University of Newcastle, and Thayaparan Gajendran, University of Newcastle

Long before a fire season that destroyed 3,500 homes, more than 100,000 Australians were homeless. If only we showed the same urgency and innovation in housing them as we did for bushfire victims.

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