Supermarket shelves were empty for months after the Lismore floods. Here's how to make supply chains more resilient

  • Written by: Fiona Berry, Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
Supermarket shelves were empty for months after the Lismore floods. Here's how to make supply chains more resilientBrendan Beirne, Author provided

From the outside, the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales seems idyllic. Rainforests, mountains, beaches and Byron Bay. But the past few years have made life harder for many who live there, with Black Summer bushfires, the COVID pandemic and intense flooding.

These disasters have exposed a key vulnerability:...

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