Browsing by Author "Adger, W.N."

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    • Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities 

      Cinner, J.E.; Adger, W.N.; Allison, E.H.; Barnes, M.L.; Brown, K.; Cohen, P.J.; Gelcich, S.; Hicks, C.C.; Hughes, T.P.; Lau, J.; Marshall, N.A.; Morrison, T.H.; Philippa Cohen: 0000-0002-9987-1943 (2018)
      Type: Journal Article
      To minimize the impacts of climate change on human wellbeing, governments, development agencies, and civil society organizations have made substantial investments in improving people’s capacity to adapt to change. Yet to ...

    • Climate change and capture fisheries: potential impacts, adaptation and mitigation 

      Daw, T.; Adger, W.N.; Brown, K.; Badjeck, M.C. (2009)
      Type: Report
      The paper tackles the consequences of climate change impacts on fisheries and their dependent communities. It analyses the exposure, sensitivity and vulnerability of fisheries to climate change and presents examples of ...

    • Limits to resilience from livelihood diversification and social capital in lake social-ecological systems 

      Goulden, M.C.; Adger, W.N.; Allison, E.H.; Conway, D. (2013)
      Type: Journal Article
      Diversity of both social networks and livelihood sources plays a central role in determining the sustainability of natural resource use and resilience of social–ecological systems, not least in resource-dependent economies. ...

    • Morals and climate decision-making: insights from social and behavioural sciences 

      Lau, J.; Song, A.; Morrison, T.; Fabinyi, M.; Brown, K.; Blythe, J.; Allison, E.; Adger, W.N.; Jacqueline Lau: 0000-0002-0403-8423 (2021)
      Type: Journal Article
      Decisions about climate change are inherently moral. They require making moral judgements about important values and the desired state of the present and future world. Hence there are potential benefits in explaining climate ...

    • Redefining community based on place attachment in a connected world 

      Gurney, G.G.; Blythe, J.; Helen, A.; Adger, W.N.; Curnock, M.; Faulkner, L.; James, T.; Marshall, N.A. (2017)
      Type: Journal Article
      The concept of community is often used in environmental policy to foster environmental stewardship and public participation, crucial prerequisites of effective management. However, prevailing conceptualizations of community ...

    • The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance 

      Morrison, T.H.; Adger, W.N.; Brown, K.; Lemos, M.C.; Huitema, D.; Phelps, J.; Evans, L.; Cohen, P.; Song, A.M.; Turner, R.; Quinn, T.; Hughes, T.P.; Philippa Cohen: 0000-0002-9987-1943 (2019)
      Type: Journal Article
      Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative—involves many centres of authority ...

    • Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change on fisheries 

      Allison, E.H.; Perry, A.L.; Badjeck, M.C.; Adger, W.N.; Brown, K.; Conway, D.; Halls, A.S.; Pilling, G.M.; Reynolds, J.D.; Andrew, N.L.; Dulvy, N.K. (2009)
      Type: Journal Article
      Anthropogenic global warming has significantly influenced physical and biological processes at global and regional scales. The observed and anticipated changes in global climate present significant opportunities and ...