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Optimising community-based climate change adaptation in the Pacific Islands (2016–2020)

Abstract:
The impacts of climate change, such as rising sea levels, more droughts, and more frequent and intense storm activity, have been particularly concentrated in tropical areas such as the Pacific Islands. In response, interventions to adapt to a diversity of impacts have been accelerating at the community level across the region, but there has been no analysis of their long-term effectiveness in reducing livelihood and resource vulnerability to climate change. This project brings together a coalition of eight partner organisations to evaluate these interventions to provide guidelines for better practice, ultimately improving community outcomes and people‿s adaptive capacities, and ensuring donor expenditure is used most effectively.
Grant type:
ARC Linkage Projects
Researchers:

  • Professor Karen McNamara

    Professor
    School of the Environment
    Faculty of Science
    Professor
    School of the Environment
    Faculty of Science

  • Professor James Watson

    Professor (Environ Mgmt)
    School of the Environment
    Faculty of Science
    Professor (Environ Mgmt)
    School of the Environment
    Faculty of Science
    Affiliate of Centre for Biodiversit
    Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science
    Faculty of Science
Funded by:
Australian Research Council