Efforts to help Queensland’s tourism industry to adapt to the effects of climate change are likely to be focused on areas that attract the most tourist dollars rather than those with the greatest need, according to new UQ research.
With the bill for the 2011 floods and Cyclone Yasi running into billions of dollars, a group of researchers from UQ Business School is urging businesses to consider relocation as a way to avoid future disasters.
Queensland’s key industries may face significant barriers in adapting to climate change but it is essential they undertake early action, UQ student research has concluded.
Organisations that apply a “wait and see” approach to thinking about the impacts of climate change on their business might reach a point where it is too late to adapt, according to a University of Queensland Business School expert.
Two UQ Business School researchers have won the Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award at this year’s Academy of Management Conference in Anaheim.
UQ Business School PhD student Simone Carr-Cornish will use her climate change studies to benefit the State when she joins the Queensland Youth Environmental Council.