Quantifying environmental risk for local government


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Quantifying the scope of environmental risks Local Government Areas (LGAs) are exposed to is an essential part in understanding their potential impacts. This is where our expertise can help you navigate this journey. 

As local government authorities, recognising the environmental risks in your municipality can be a powerful advocacy tool and can help you implement the right plans to protect your community and infrastructure. Here’s how we can help...

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Part of PEXA Group, .id and Land Insight are unlocking new insightful solutions that enable businesses and government to make better decisions, driving efficiency, transformation and innovation. 

Combined, our expertise can help local councils understand and plan for environmental risks in their municipality to protect their community and infrastructure, mitigating impact.

Lasting impacts of natural disasters

In recent years we saw the devastating impacts to communities, animals and our planet. As Australia's population grows and the potential for the frequency of natural disaster risk increases, these future impacts will also likely increase.

2019-2020

One of Australia's most devastating bushfire seasons. Affected most states, destroying acres of land, buildings, and animals.

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2022

Northern Rivers region of New South Wales experienced two catastrophic floods that uprooted many communities.

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2023

Tropical Cyclone Jasper caused extensive damage, flooding and coastal inundation across North Queensland.

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climate change iconAdapting to Climate Change webinar hosted by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), declared that around 18 million Australians were living in an LGA impacted by at least one natural disaster during 2022, almost 70% of our population

Defining environmental risk

Environmental risk refers to the potential for loss of property and infrastructure, disruption to way of life and the economy and injuries or fatalities arising from exposure to environmental hazards.

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Natural hazards

Bushfire hazard, flood hazard, erosion hazard.

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Pollution hazards

Contaminated land, potentially contaminated areas, emissions and toxic substance.

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Ground hazards

Soil risk, subsidence hazard, earthquake hazard.

Costs of natural disasters in Australia

Tragically, since 2010, 150 lives have been lost due to natural disasters in Australia. These will likely keep increasing as more severe weather events occur and the urban footprint grows.

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cost of climate risk iconAustralian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience & Safer Communities’ 2021 report expects the current natural disasters cost of $38 billion per year to the Australian economy to increase to at least $73 billion by 2060 due to climate change, population growth and property value growth.

Coastal inundation and bushfire total costs are forecasted to increase by at least 50%, whereas flood and tropical cyclone costs by 31%.

Playing your part

What’s the role of government?

National level

Nationally, the responsibilities related to climate change are divided among various agencies such as Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, National Adaptation Policy Office, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

State & Territory level

Each state possesses unique institutional frameworks overseeing these domains with distinct configurations of responsibilities allocated across diverse departments, agencies and corporations.

States formulate regional adaptation plans, allocate funds for risk mitigation measures, and oversee emergency service management.

Local governments

Tasked with planning and development, infrastructure management, community engagement and contributing to a decentralised approach to addressing climate change impacts.

Environmental risks to local government

Understanding environmental risk spans across council functions and can be integral to different council departments.

Climate map iconVictorian Department for Environment, Land, Water and Planning states: "The essential services and infrastructure councils provide to the community are vulnerable to a range of climate hazards. Because of their local knowledge and close connection to the community, councils are often best placed to help the local community reduce risks and adapt to climate change."

Read report: Climate change risks to local government

Council domains which require knowledge of environmental risk are:

How exposed is your local government area?

Understanding whether your local government area is at risk is an essential part of your planning and development processes. Climate Council, an independent, crowd-funded organisation have uncovered the top five most impacted local government areas in each state and territory, by total count of impacted properties.

Source: Compound Costs: How climate change is damaging Australia’s economy by Climate Council

So where does your local government sit? 

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How is your local council planning for environmental risk? And do you have the correct data you need to be able to quantify what you’re planning for? This is where we can help.

If your local government area is listed above or you’re interested understanding your risk, reach out to our team for actionable insights that can inform your planning.

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Let's quantify your environmental risk

Analysis of environmental risk does not have a consistent approach across Australia. This is where the collaboration of Land Insight and .id can help.  

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Access nationwide environmental insights 

Land Insight holds nationwide information about various environmental risks, and an extensive database. The database of potentially contaminated areas is Land Insight's key distinction in the market and allows for a highly detailed analysis of contaminated land risk at a parcel-level across Australia. 

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Receive evaluation of environmental risk

Land Insight has detailed extents of natural hazards and locations and extents of potentially contaminated areas. Access to such nationally consistent data means councils across Australia would receive a comprehensive evaluation of environmental risk within their municipality. 

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Quantifying risk in your local area

.id’s local-area knowledge, insights and population forecast together with Land Insight’s data, can help local councils effectively quantify the level of risk that they need to plan for in their specific area, over a long period of time.

Partners in motion

Collaborate with us to make future-proof plans and mitigate the impact of environmental risk for your community.

How can we help you? 

We provide local government authorities with a comprehensive understanding of their area’s environmental risks, its extent and impacts on current and future population.


With these powerful insights, councils can:  

  • Plan for adaptation and resilience in their community

  • Focus efforts where analysis states environmental risk to population and housing is highest

  • Submit grants and other funding applications

  • Comply with regulations and program guidelines

  • Address community concerns

  • Update a previous climate change risk assessment

Together, we can empower strategic planning when it comes to environmental risk, for local governments within any region.

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Collaborate with us to quantify environmental risks for your LGA.
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Meet our experts in climate & environmental risk

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Ana Ouriques 

CEO and Co-founder,
Land Insight 

As a data analyst with qualifications in Forestry Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Ana is one of the contributing experts for the United Nations Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment (UNEP-SPBF). The working group is focused in addressing humanity’s most pressing environmental challenges.

 

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Tim Osborne 

COO and Co-founder,
Land Insight 

Prior to Land Insight, Tim owned and operated a consultancy business for over 15 years. The firm specialised in providing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and visual communication products to some of the largest environmental, mining/extractive, defence and major infrastructure projects both in Australia and abroad.  

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Nenad Petrovic

Senior demographic consultant, .id 

In Australia, Nenad has been a population forecaster and demographer for over 13 years with experience in emergency management and disaster planning from a geospatial analysis perspective.  He was also the principal researcher spatial analyst for sea-level rise modelling in an earlier Wellington City study.

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