Climate REEFS – integrating risks, evolution and socio-economics for fisheries sustainability on coral reefs

 

This project will advance knowledge and impact towards identifying socially equitable climate change adaptation pathways for coastal communities in Indonesia and the Philippines that depend on coral reef resources. It will implement social research to identify social climate vulnerability and inclusive adaptation pathways, geospatial research to detect adaptive reefs from satellite-derived data, and ecological and genomic research to pilot an analysis that tests the interplay of adaptiveness from genes to people. The activities will be conducted on a small scale and build capacity in all the research techniques. The project aims to deliver pilot science and on-the-ground change, seeking to expand the activities during the project period.

The project forms part of the Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE) initiative co-funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and IDRC. CLARE is a five-year, CAD120-million initiative that aims to enable inclusive and sustainable action to build resilience to climate change and natural hazards for people across Africa and the Asia-Pacific region.