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    Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/2094

    Building adaptive capacity to climate change; approaches applied in five diverse fisheries settings

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    • Climate change poses a range of risks to coastal and inland rural communities in the global tropics. People living within these communities depend directly on physical and natural environments for income, food and their way of life. Development agencies, governments and non-governmental organizations have made significant investments into helping these potentially vulnerable communities build their adaptive capacity, or in other words create ‘the conditions that enable people to anticipate and respond to change, to minimize the consequences, to recover and take advantage of new opportunities’. Recent research has highlighted how efforts to build adaptive capacity must do so across five interacting domains: assets, flexibility, social organization, learning and agency. Here we outline five research-for-development initiatives (two in coastal systems and three in inland systems) that sought to build adaptive capacity in fishing communities. We provide a short profile of each setting, and the initiative in terms of objectives, design and challenges. Further, we summarize early evidence of outcomes toward increasing productivity, improving food security, enhancing benefits from ecosystems goods and services, and increasing resilience of the poor to climate change and other shocks. The purpose of this brief is to illustrate how the domains of adaptive capacity have been approached and built in practice across communities that are experiencing climate change impacts in very diverse ways.
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    • Climate Change [127]
    • Resilient small-scale fisheries [1077]
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    Date
    • 2018
    Author
    • Roscher, M.B.
    • Eam, D.
    • Suri, S.
    • Van Der Ploeg, J.
    • Mills, D.J.
    • Nagoli, J.
    • Cohen, P.J.
    • Cinner, J.
    • Hossain, M.
    Author(s) ORCID(s)
    • Matthew B Roscherhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3408-8763
    • Sharon Surihttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3064-7991
    • David Jonathan Millshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0181-843X
    • Joseph Nagolihttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8919-1397
    • Philippa Jane Cohenhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9987-1943
    • Md. Emdad Hossainhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5077-8740
    Subject(s)
    • coastal communities; adaptive management
    AGROVOC Keywords
    • climate change; fisheries; resilience
    Type
    • Brief
    Publisher
    • WorldFish
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