Nature Communications<\/em>, the paper includes the research of Amy Diedrich (Ph.D. \u201906), an environmental social scientist and Associate Professor at JCU.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDiedrich says, \u201cIt was great to be able to work with Richard again. I had a great experience with the Marine Affairs program at 溏心vlog免费B站 and working with Richard who was a huge inspiration. I applied to 溏心vlog免费B站 specifically to work with him. The degree set me up well for a career in environmental social science and gave me the basic knowledge and skills to be able to work across the natural and social marine sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project involved multiple marine affairs specialists who had worked with Pollnac and been trained in his methods. In 2017, they all met to pool their data, meeting on Magnetic Island, off the east coast of Australia. \u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful place to work and think and to pull data together,\u201d says Pollnac. The resulting study is unique in the number of sites covered, the amount of data and complexity of research, as well as the number of marine affairs specialists who joined from around the world, including Australia, Austria, Canada, China, France, Spain, Madagascar, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, and Tanzania. From that point, 28 researchers began to investigate the impacts of climate change on fisheries and agriculture for coastal communities across the Indo-Pacific region. Many had been conducting their own analyses of farming and fishing, but this was the first time that existing data has been synthesized. As the data coalesced, a strong picture formed, pointing to food security vulnerability for the surveyed communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to their findings, climate change will profoundly affect fisheries and agriculture. By 2050, potential losses to fisheries will be up to 32% in some locations, and two-thirds of the communities studied could experience potential losses to fisheries and agriculture simultaneously. In total, they surveyed 3,000 households from 72 villages in 5 countries: Tanzania, Madagascar, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cClimate change mitigation \u2013 reducing greenhouse gas emissions \u2013 could reduce the proportion of places facing that double burden by half,\u201d says Cinner. \u201c<\/em>It really does show how much the lives of very many ordinary people hinge on decisions they have no control over and highlights the moral responsibilities that decision makers have toward them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe paper\u2019s unified methodology, rare in the social sciences, let its authors look at patterns emerging at large scale. Taking the macro view, they were able to get a better sense of climate change\u2019s impact on the micro, and individual, level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pollnac\u2019s focus on the people impacted by climate and sea change continues, as he studies the impacts of environmental and climate change on fishing communities in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with Tarsila Seara (Ph.D. \u201914), associate professor and marine affairs program coordinator at the University of New Haven, and fishing communities in South America with Nikita Gaibor (Ph.D. \u201916), project coordinator of the Public Institute of Aquaculture and Fisheries Research in Ecuador. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pollnac could not be more thrilled to see the success of his former students. \u201cWe produced some excellent students in Marine Affairs,\u201d he reflects. \u201cI always wanted them to be better than me and they are. Their success reflects well on the University.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pollnac is professor emeritus in the Marine Affairs Department at the 溏心vlog免费B站 and affiliate professor in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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