Browsing Climate Change by Author "Lau, J."

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    • Accelerating climate resilience of aquatic food systems 

      Mohammed, E.; Hossain, P.R.; Lau, J.; Abdul, W.M.; Beveridge, M.; Marwaha, N.; Peerzadi Rumana Hossain: 0000-0002-1125-284X; Jacqueline Lau: 0000-0002-0403-8423; Nisha Marwaha: 0000-0001-9822-4085 (2021)
      Type: Brief
      Climate 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 ...

    • Advancing Gender Equality for Equitable Livelihoods in Coral Reef Social-ecological Systems 

      Lawless, S.; Lau, J.; Ruano-Chamorro, C.; Corcoran, E.; Cohen, P.J.; McDougall, C.; Jacqueline Lau: 0000-0002-0403-8423; Philippa Jane Cohen: 0000-0002-9987-1943; Cynthia McDougall: 0000-0002-5606-6813 (2021)
      Type: Brief
      This 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 ...

    • Attributes of climate resilience in fisheries: From theory to practice 

      Mason, J.; Eurich, J.J.; Lau, J.; Battista, W.; Free, C.; Mills, K.E.; Tokunaga, K.; Zhao, L.Z.; Dickey-Collas, M.; Valle, M.; Pecl, G.; Cinner, J.; McClanahan, T.; Allison, E.; Friedman, W.R.; Silva, C.; Yáñez, E.; Barbieri, M.A.; Kleisner, K.; Jacqueline Lau: 0000-0002-0403-8423 (2022)
      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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions 

      Lau, J.; Kleiber, D.L.; Lawless, S.; Cohen, P.J.; Jacqueline Lau: 0000-0002-0403-8423; Philippa Jane Cohen: 0000-0002-9987-1943 (2021)
      Type: Journal Article
      Gender 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 

      Lau, J.; Ruano-Chamorro, C.; Jacqueline Lau: 0000-0002-0403-8423 (2021)
      Type: Other
      The 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 

      Lau, J.; Ruano-Chamorro, C.; Lawless, S.; McDougall, C.; Jacqueline Lau: 0000-0002-0403-8423; Cynthia McDougall: 0000-0002-5606-6813 (2021)
      Type: Brief
      CARE’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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change 

      Barnes, M.; Wang, P.; Cinner, J.; Graham, N.; Guerrero, A.M.; Jasny, L.; Lau, J.; Sutcliffe, S.; Zamborain-Mason, J.; Jacqueline Lau: 0000-0002-0403-8423 (2020)
      Type: Journal Article
      To 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 ...

    • Who you know matters for climate change adaptation 

      Barnes, M.; Lau, J.; Jacqueline Lau: 0000-0002-0403-8423 (2020)
      Type: Blog
      Coastal communities around the world are already facing the trials and tribulations wrought by climate change. On an atoll island in Papua New Guinea, we examine the social factors that shape whether and how households adapt.