2021
Funded by Mornington Peninsula Shire and Greater Dandenong City Council.
Climate change has significant impacts and implications for our health and wellbeing, both in direct ways (for example, through the impact of heat), and in less direct ways (for example, through impacts on our mental health). These impacts will not be felt evenly across society and risk entrenching existing health inequities. We need to proactively plan for the disproportionate impact on already marginalised and disadvantaged people.
The project
This project – a partnership between City of Greater Dandenong, Mornington Peninsula Shire, the Australian Urban Observatory and the Centre for Just Places – brought researchers and health professionals together to begin integrating climate adaptation into public health planning in the two locations on Boon Wurrung country.
The impact
This project profiled health and climate risks for residents, identified a shared indicator framework for vulnerability to climate change impacts, mapped roles and responsibilities for planning, and developed recommendations to respond to the local risks and impacts of our changing climate on health and wellbeing.
We also worked to bring departments in council together to think about their shared role in planning for climate change’s impact on health and wellbeing, and engaged external stakeholders within community service organisations and health providers to inform the priorities and recommendations identified.
For more information
Contact Katrina Dunn, Manager – Climate Justice, at [email protected] to discuss this project.