CAF Partnerships

What defines our capacity to manage natural resources?

Your Development is a website created to help land developers, architects and urban planners create climate-adapted, sustainable Australian suburbs.

The Cluster will develop adaptation strategies to safeguard the health of our urban populations in the face of a variable and changing climate.

The collective expertise of the Sustainable Communities Initiative will guide planning of ‘Lockerbie’, a Greenfield residential project north of Melbourne, Victoria, promising a quantum leap in sustainable living.

CSIRO is part of an unprecedented response to the challenge of climate change in south-east Queensland.

The Coastal Collaboration Cluster will help coastal communities maintain economic and social values while using ecosystems more sustainably.

CSIRO's Flood Damage Advisor is an online web based tool that provides the user information of a number of common building fabric and material problems that occur after a flood.

The Climate Adaptation Flagship invites applications for PhD scholarships commencing in early 2012.

The East Lake precinct in Canberra is the focus of a new partnership project between CSIRO and the ACT Government to showcase innovative approaches to sustainable urban renewal.

A new collaborative research program is researching how urban environments and food systems affect human health.

The Adaptive Capacity Spatial Assessment Tool enables community groups, industries and governments to explore the factors contributing to or limiting the capacity to adapt to climate change across Australia.

The Pacific Climate Change Science Program is a A$20 million science program to help Australia's neighbouring island countries gain a better understanding of how climate change will impact the region.

CSIRO's Climate Adaptation Flagship is focused on equipping Australia with practical and effective adaptation options to climate change and variability. ADAPT is the e-newsletter containing news from this initiative.