Friends matter in climate change response
A James Cook University scientist is investigating how people’s social networks prompt them to take action on climate change - or discourage them from doing so – in an attempt to help communities
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
Sustainable natural resources management across the land-sea interface requires collaboration among people working in terrestrial, freshwater, estuarine, and marine ecosystems, and across many sectors of society including government, business, research, non-governmental organisations, and others. Social network analysis can provide insights into the relationships among these diverse participants, and suggest opportunities for new collaborations that might lead to more effective outcomes. I will talk about my background in regional conservation planning in western North America, describe a new paired study of coastal conservation planning in Queensland and Oregon, and present preliminary results of a social network analysis for a portion of the Oregon coast.
A James Cook University scientist is investigating how people’s social networks prompt them to take action on climate change - or discourage them from doing so – in an attempt to help communities
A world-first study has revealed that “robust” reef-building corals are the only known organisms in the animal kingdom to make one of the “essential” amino acids, which may make them less susc
Researchers have found that when water temperatures heat up for corals, fish ‘tempers’ cool down, providing the first clear evidence of coral bleaching serving as a trigger for rapid change in ree
An international team of researchers have described a remarkable new species of fish that lived in the sea in the time of the dinosaurs in the late Jurassic about 150 million years ago.The new sp
Abstract: Coral reefs are crucial to the wellbeing of millions of people in developing countries, who depend directly on reef ecosystem services for their livehoods. Yet, while research ecosyste
Abstract:Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) is a philanthropic foundation that supports marine research and technology development around the world to accelerate scientific understanding and scalable c
Abstract: Coral reefs are biodiversity hotspots of immense socio-economic importance that are increasingly threatened by recurrent mass bleaching events. As rapid climate change progressively red
Abstract: Interdependency across geographical localities and policy domains is a key constituent of complex environmental problems. Problem interdependencies generate incentives for cooperation thr
Abstract: Recreation-based stakeholder groups have achieved substantial habitat conservation in some cases, yet few studies have considered strategic engagement of recreational fishing communitie
Abstract: Coral reefs worldwide are under pressure, with coral cover decreasing and cover of macroalgae increasing on many reefs. Once macroalgae has established, it can be extremely difficult to r
Abstract: The science of conservation biology has mainly been focused on part of the problem of biodiversity loss; the part that deals with the species and ecosystem processes that we want to prote
Abstract: Characterization of genomic biodiversity through comprehensive species sampling has the potential to change our understanding of evolution. To study evolution across a major vertebrate cl
Partner Research Institutions
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au