Research Interests: Economics, Technology, Climate Change Adaptation, Sustainable Development, Risk Management, and 13 moreScenario planning, Social Forecasting, Case Study, Water resource management, Decode-And-Forward, Performance Monitoring, Complex Adaptive System, Self Organization, Key Performance Indicator, Adaptive Management, Social Network, Public Policy, and Complex Dynamics
Research Interests: Economics, Technology, Climate Change Adaptation, Sustainable Development, Risk Management, and 13 moreScenario planning, Social Forecasting, Case Study, Water resource management, Decode-And-Forward, Performance Monitoring, Complex Adaptive System, Self Organization, Key Performance Indicator, Adaptive Management, Social Network, Public Policy, and Complex Dynamics
Today's policymaker has a tough job to do. Crafting public policies to help guide the daily actions of individuals, communities and businesses to ensure our economic, social and environmental wellbeing, is challenging under the best... more
Today's policymaker has a tough job to do. Crafting public policies to help guide the daily actions of individuals, communities and businesses to ensure our economic, social and environmental wellbeing, is challenging under the best of circumstances. But the reality is that our world is now more complex than ever - highly interconnected, owing to advances in communication and transportation, and highly dynamic, owing to the scale of impact of our collective actions. Policies that cannot continue to perform effectively under dynamic and uncertain conditions run the risk of not achieving their intended purpose, and becoming a hindrance to the ability of individuals, communities and businesses to cope with and adapt to changing socio-economic and ecologic conditions. Using insights gained from complex adaptive systems thinking, as currently being applied in range of economic sectors, and through the analysis of policies identified through hundreds of on-the-ground interviews in Ca...
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Page 1. BIODIVERSITY 1 1 ( 1 & 2 ) 2 0 1 0 49 introduction Ecosystems, even if heavily modified by humans, produce a variety of goods and services that humanity depends upon. The extent and immediacy of the loss of ecosystem ...
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Recent transitions in the demographic and industrial trends of developing countries have sparked a renewed interest in urban household energy con sumption. Historically, work on the developing world's energy sector has... more
Recent transitions in the demographic and industrial trends of developing countries have sparked a renewed interest in urban household energy con sumption. Historically, work on the developing world's energy sector has focused on establishing new energy supply ...
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The majority of vulnerability and adaptation scholarship, policies and programs focus exclusively on climate change or global environmental change. Yet, individuals, communities and sectors experience a broad array of multi-scalar and... more
The majority of vulnerability and adaptation scholarship, policies and programs focus exclusively on climate change or global environmental change. Yet, individuals, communities and sectors experience a broad array of multi-scalar and multi-temporal, social, political, economic and environmental changes to which they are vulnerable and must adapt. While extensive theoretical—and increasingly empirical—work suggests the need to explore multiple exposures, a clear conceptual framework which would facilitate analysis of vulnerability and adaptation to multiple interacting socioeconomic and biophysical changes is lacking. This review and synthesis paper aims to fill this gap through presenting a conceptual framework for integrating multiple exposures into vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning. To support applications of the framework and facilitate assessments and comparative analyses of community vulnerability, we develop a comprehensive typology of drivers and exposures experienced by coastal communities. Our results reveal essential elements of a pragmatic approach for local-scale vulnerability analysis and for planning appropriate adaptations within the context of multiple interacting exposures. We also identify methodologies for characterizing exposures and impacts, exploring interactions and identifying and prioritizing responses. This review focuses on coastal communities; however, we believe the framework, typology and approach will be useful for understanding vulnerability and planning adaptation to multiple exposures in various social-ecological contexts.