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How our bushfire-proof house design could help people flee rather than risk fighting the flames

  • Written by: Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Professor, Head of School, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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By 2030, climate change will make one in 25 Australian homes “uninsurable” if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, with riverine flooding posing the greatest insurance risk, a new Climate Council analysis finds.

As a professor of architecture, I find this analysis grim, yet unsurprising. One reason is because...

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