Interdisciplinary themes
July 9-11, 2025
Geelong, Australia
Drought Resilience 2025 is strongly focussed on bringing a wide range of researchers together to present and hear from Drought Resilience research across a diverse range of views and approaches. As such, the conference's themes highlight key overarching topics that cut across disciplines, including traditional knowledge systems. Our aim is to maximise the diversity of discipline areas within session themes to provide the opportunity to learn about alternative methods and strategies that they might not usually be exposed to, but which addresses similar questions or contexts in drought resilience.
- Resilient landscapes
Presentations focusing on resilience of built, natural and human-impacted landscapes and ecosystems.
- Resilient communities
Presentations focusing on resilience in communities including physical and mental health, education, childcare, entertainment, connections and creativity.
- Resilient industries and economies
Presentations focussing on resilience of businesses including, but not limited to farms, industry and tourism.
- Resilience technologies and practices
Presentations focussing on novel, little known, or underutilised technologies or strategies that support drought resilience.
- Predicting and planning for drought
Presentations that focus on predicting the onset or frequency and severity of drought or planning responses ahead of time, especially in the context of a changing climate.
- Lessons from the past
Presentations focussing on the effects of past droughts, their continuing effects and the lessons that we have learnt or should learn from them.
- Emerging issues and opportunities
Presentations focussing on less well understood, known or predicted effects of drought in the context of a changing climate.