Our hospitals are at greater risk of flooding as the climate changes. We need better evacuation plans.

  • Written by: Martin Loosemore, Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney
Our hospitals are at greater risk of flooding as the climate changes. We need better evacuation plans.Rick Rycroft/AP

With hospitals under strain from COVID-19, we need to safeguard them against another threat set to increase as the world warms.

That threat? Flooding. Many Australian hospitals were built on cheap land near rivers. But as climate change loads the dice in favour of larger floods, areas previously safe may no longer be so. We must...

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