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Reforming Planning Processes Trial: Rockhampton 2050: Technical Report on Current and Future Climate Hazards

Created 20/01/2026

Updated 20/01/2026

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Potential impacts of climate change present significant challenges for land use planning, emergency management and risk mitigation across Australia. Even in current climate conditions, the Rockhampton Regional Council area is subject to the impacts of natural hazards, such as bushfires, floods, and tropical cyclones (extreme winds and storm surge). All of these hazards may worsen with climate change.

To consider future climate hazard within council practices, the Rockhampton Regional Council received funding from the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Grants Program Project for a project under the Settlements and Infrastructure theme. This funding was provided to evaluate the ability of urban planning principles and practices to accommodate climate change and the uncertainty of climate change impacts. Within this project, the Rockhampton Regional Council engaged Geoscience Australia to undertake the modelling of natural hazards under current and future climate conditions.

Geoscience Australia's work, within the broader project, has utilised natural hazard modelling techniques to develop a series of spatial datasets describing hazards under current climate conditions and a future climate scenario. The following natural hazards were considered: tropical cyclone wind, bushfire, storm tide, coastal erosion and sea-level rise. Outputs of this project include a report, hazard maps and digital spatial data.

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Title Reforming Planning Processes Trial: Rockhampton 2050: Technical Report on Current and Future Climate Hazards
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/72892515-669c-45b2-b11b-516a6cd8ff4b
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Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 15/10/2025
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