Although the population of the world continues to grow substantially, 79 million a year, the rate of growth has declined by nearly half in the last 40 years – from 2.0 to 1.2 per cent per annum. It have varied significantly by continent … Read more here.
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Given Uncertainty of Sea-level Rise, Don’t Stop Development Now
IS it fair to take away the development potential of real estate because sea levels may rise by up to 0.8 m over the next 100 years?
According to a recent presentation by Barrister and Practising Planner, Clem Newton-Brown, at the Planning Institute of Australia Annual Conference, last year’s decision by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal to refuse development of low lying land in Toora over one kilometre from the sea, due to the potential for inundation by rising sea levels in the future, has implications for the development of all low lying coastal land in Victoria.
Indeed, the Victorian State Government has now set a level of 80cm as the predicted sea level rise over the next 100 years and planners have been directed to apply this prediction to future planning applications.
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.