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Building adaptive capacity to climate change; approaches applied in five diverse fisheries settings
Type: Brief
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 ...
Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world
Type: Journal Article
The worldwide decline of coral reefs necessitates targeting management solutions that can sustain reefs and the livelihoods of the people who depend on them. However, little is known about the context in which different ...
Attributes of climate resilience in fisheries: From theory to practice
Type: Journal Article
In 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 ...
Escaping the perfect storm of simultaneous climate change impacts on agriculture and marine fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Climate change can alter conditions that sustain food production and availability, with cascading consequences for food security and global economies. Here, we evaluate the vulnerability of societies to the simultaneous ...
Social dimensions of resilience in social-ecological systems
Type: Journal Article
Resilience is generally considered the capacity to tolerate, absorb, cope with, and adjust to changing social or environmental conditions while retaining key elements of structure, function, and identity. The social ...
Securing a just space for small-scale fisheries in the blue economy
Type: Journal Article
The vast development opportunities offered by the world’s coasts and oceans have attracted the attention of governments, private enterprises, philanthropic organizations and international conservation organizations. ...