Jon Barnett

Contingent communality and community-based adaptation to climate change: Insights from a Pacific rural atoll

Sergio Jarillo, Jon Barnett

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Rural Studies

Research shows that community-based adaptation (CBA) can empower grassroots agents to determine their preferred responses to clima..

Making a water market intermediary: the China Water Exchange

Min Jiang, Michael Webber, Jon Barnett, Wenjing Zhang, Gang Liu

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT

Market intermediaries play a crucial role in stitching together necessary actors for effective systems of exchange. However, there..

Water supply in a mega-city: a political ecology analysis of Shanghai

Chad Staddon

Journal article  |  2021  |  WATER INTERNATIONAL

Environmental peacebuilding from below: customary approaches in Timor-Leste

Tobias Ide, Lisa R Palmer, Jon Barnett

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Abstract Environmental peacebuilding is the integration of natural resource management into conflict prevention, re..

Between adaptive capacity and action: new insights into climate change adaptation at the household scale

Colette Mortreux, Saffron O'Neill, Jon Barnett

Journal article  |  2020  |  Environmental Research Letters

Research on social vulnerability and adaptation to climate change assumes that increasing amounts of adaptive capacity increase th..

The mental health impacts of climate change: Findings from a Pacific Island atoll nation

KE Gibson, J Barnett, N Haslam, I Kaplan

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF ANXIETY DISORDERS

BACKGROUND: Climate change is anticipated to have profound effects on mental health, particularly among populations that are simul..

Testing the presence of marine protected areas against their ability to reduce pressures on biodiversity

Simone L Stevenson, Skipton NC Woolley, Jon Barnett, Piers Dunstan

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are the preferred tool for preventing marine biodiversity loss, as reflected in international protec..

Global environmental change II: Political economies of vulnerability to climate change

Jon Barnett

Journal article  |  2020  |  Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities

Though rarely described as such, vulnerability to climate change is fundamentally a matter of political economy. This progress rep..

Is Trust Always a Precondition for Effective Water Resource Management?

Nahui Zhen, Jon Barnett, Michael Webber

Journal article  |  2020  |  Water Resources Management

Trust is generally assumed to be an essential precondition for effective water resource management. However, there is piecemeal ev..

Advancing Coral Reef Governance into the Anthropocene

Tiffany H Morrison, Neil Adger, Jon Barnett, Katrina Brown, Hugh Possingham, Terry Hughes

Journal article  |  2020  |  One Earth

The unprecedented global heatwave of 2014–2017 was a defining event for many ecosystems. Widespread degradation caused by coral bl..