Browsing by Author "Lau, J."
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Accelerating climate resilience of aquatic food systems
(2021)Type: BriefClimate change impacts on aquatic food systems place vulnerable communities with limited adaptive capacities at most risk. Policy and investment interventions require a positive bias in favor of the most vulnerable. Building ... -
Access to marine ecosystem services: Examining entanglement and legitimacy in customary institutions
(2020)Type: Journal ArticleEcosystem services have become a dominant paradigm for understanding how people derive well-being from ecosystems. However, the framework has been critiqued for over-emphasizing the availability of services as a proxy for ... -
Advancing Gender Equality for Equitable Livelihoods in Coral Reef Social-ecological Systems
(2021)Type: BriefThis brief is intended for policymakers and policy influencers in national, multilateral and funding agencies who are committed to advancing gender equality in coral reef social ecological systems. It provides recommendations ... -
Advancing research and development outcomes with fish in regional food systems
(2021)Type: BriefFood systems encompass actors and interactions from production to consumption and disposal of food as well as social, economic and environmental outcomes. Food systems frameworks provide a holistic approach for research ... -
An applied research agenda for navigating diverse livelihood challenges in rural coastal communities in the tropics
(2022)Type: Journal ArticleRural, tropical coastal communities are experiencing sustained, often increasing food insecurity, poverty, and global change impacts. These challenges have stimulated a rise in projects aiming to enhance and diversify local ... -
Attributes of climate resilience in fisheries: From theory to practice
(2022)Type: Journal ArticleIn a changing climate, there is an imperative to build coupled social-ecological systems—including fisheries—that can withstand or adapt to climate stressors. Although resilience theory identifies system attributes that ... -
Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleTo 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 ... -
Environmental justice in coastal systems: Perspectives from communities confronting change
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleLife in the Pacific is characterised by interconnected, fast and slow socio-ecological change. These changes inevitably involve navigating questions of justice, as they shift who benefits from, owns, and governs resources, ... -
Four pathways to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture: Insights from FISH research
(2022)Type: ReportThis technical report aims to expound on the constraints and opportunities faced by women, men, marginalized poor and youths whose livelihoods depend on aquatic food systems. To address this, the report uses case studies ... -
Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleGender has a powerful influence on people’s experience of, and resilience to, climate change. Global climate change policy is committed to tackling gender inequalities in mitigation and adaptation. However, progress is ... -
Gender Equality in Coral Reef Socio-ecological Systems
(2021)Type: OtherThe purpose of this project, which comprises literature review, technical and policy outputs, is to increase the levels of awareness and knowledge among CRRI partners and the wider development and conservation communities ... -
Gender Transformative Approaches for Advancing Gender Equality in Coral Reef Social-ecological Systems
(2021)Type: BriefCARE’s work in food and water systems seeks to contribute to realization of the rights to food, water and nutrition security of women small-scale producers and their families. CARE believes that approaches to building ... -
Gleaning: beyond the subsistence narrative
(2020)Type: Journal ArticleCoastal resources are important for the wellbeing and livelihoods of people in coastal communities across the world but are used and valued differently by different people at different times. As such, managing coastal ... -
Increasing social and ecological resilience of coastal fisheries
(2021)Type: BriefSmall-scale coastal capture fisheries produce almost half the fish consumed in low- and middle- income countries and employ more people than all other ocean economic sectors combined, but their resilience is undermined by ... -
Lessons from the Pacific about balancing community and environmental needs
(2020)Type: BlogBlog entry for the journal on the CoralCOE website: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ‘Sixteen years of social and ecological dynamics reveal challenges and opportunities for adaptive management in sustaining ... -
Lived Experiences of COVID-19: Impacts on an Atoll Island Community, Papua New Guinea
(2020)Type: BlogCoral COE blog on the Lau, Sutcliffe & Hungito 2020 report 'Lived experiences of COVID-19: impacts on an atoll island community, Papua New Guinea' -
Lived experiences of Covid-19: impacts on an atoll island community, Papua New Guinea
(2020)Type: ReportThis report details the findings from in-depth interviews with community members in an atoll island community in Manus Province, about their experiences during and after the PNG state of emergency. The interviews were ... -
Morals and climate decision-making: insights from social and behavioural sciences
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleDecisions 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 ... -
Preliminary lessons from COVID-19 disruptions of small-scale fishery supply chains
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and associated mitigation measures have disrupted global systems that support the health, food and nutrition security, and livelihoods of billions of people. These disruptions have likewise ... -
Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change
(2020)Type: Journal ArticleTo cope effectively with the impacts of climate change, people will need to change existing practices or behaviours within existing social-ecological systems (adaptation) or enact more fundamental changes that can alter ...
