Lucinda Coates
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Lucinda is a Senior Research Consultant specialising in risk reduction and climate change adaptation assessment, natural hazard fatalities trends, vulnerability versus resilience, and evaluations of risk perception and risk communication. She has a Master of Geoscience from Macquarie University.

Figure 1: Heatwave incident locations in Australia, FY2001 to FY2018. Higher densities of heatwave fatalities are indicated by larger/ darker hotspots.
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Heatwave fatalities in Australia: a new analysis

Heatwaves, recognised as one of the key natural hazard risks to human health, have increased in frequency and intensity in recent decades, a trend projected to continue under most future climate scenarios (e.g. Perkins-Kirkpatrick et al., 2016).  This, in combination…

Most fatal preventable residential fires start in the living room or bedroom.
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Understanding preventable residential fire fatalities

More than one residential fire-related death occurs every week in Australia – deaths that are preventable. New research shines a light on the vulnerable groups most at risk. On average, more than one preventable fire-related death occurs in a residential…