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A framework to assess national level vulnerability from the perspective of food security: The case of coral reef fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Measuring the vulnerability of human populations to environmental change is increasingly being used to develop appropriate adaptation policies and management plans for different economic sectors. We developed a national-level ...
Small-scale shrimp farmers and global markets: Trends, future prospects and adaptation
Type: Journal Article
It is time to recognize the crucial role of small-scale farmers in Asian aquaculture production and trade. The socially and economically important smallscale sector – the “mainstay” of Asian aquaculture – is innovative, ...
Reconceptualising adaptation to climate change as part of pathways of change and response
Type: Journal Article
The need to adapt to climate change is now widely recognised as evidence of its impacts on social and natural systems grows and greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated. Yet efforts to adapt to climate change, as reported ...
Navigating change: Second-generation challenges of small-scale fisheries co-management in the Philippines and Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
Early efforts to apply the concept of fisheries co-management in Southeast Asia focused primarily on building the effectiveness of local management institutions and advocating the merits of the approach so that it would ...
Limits to resilience from livelihood diversification and social capital in lake social-ecological systems
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. ...
The future is now: how scenarios can help Senegalese and Mauritanian fisheries adapt to climate change
Type: Journal Article
Localized changes in the productivity of marine and inland waters induced by climate change will pose new challenges to the fishery and the aquaculture sectors in West Africa. However, climate change does not occur in ...
Coping with resettlement: A livelihood adaptation analysis in the Mekong River basin
Type: Journal Article
A major driver of change in the Mekong River basin relates to hydropower development and the consequent changes in landscape and natural resource access regime that it induces. In this paper, we examine how the livelihoods ...
A rights-based perspective on adaptive capacity
Type: Journal Article
Whilst it is increasingly recognised that socio-political contexts shape climate change adaptation decisions and actions at all scales, current modes of development typically fail to recognise or adequately challenge these ...
Gleaner, fisher, trader, processor: understanding gendered employment in fisheries and aquaculture
Type: Journal Article
Most research on gender difference or inequities in capture fisheries and aquaculture in Africa and the Asia-Pacific focuses on the gender division of labour. Emerging research on globalization, market changes, poverty and ...
Aquaculture [in Vietnam]
Type: Journal Article
This report provides a synthesis of key findings of sector studies undertaken in Vietnam in the context of the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) study. Sectors studied include agriculture, forestry, coastal ...