SDEC Lab PhD candidate Luisa Fernanda Bedoya Taborda recently conducted fieldwork in a coastal marsh ecosystem along Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Her research, endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Action, examines how justice and collaborative networks shape the impacts of climate adaptation responses—including Nature-based Solutions—on social stability and conflict, and how these social dynamics, in turn,Continue reading “Field Research in Colombia’s Caribbean coast”
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Who benefits from climate adaptation? Preliminary findings shared in workshops in Leyte Province, the Philippines
SDEC Lab Postdoctoral Research Fellow Henry Bartelet conducted workshops in Leyte Province, the Philippines, to report and discuss preliminary findings from the Sydney Environment Institute funded research project on “Mapping Social Networks to Understand Disparities in Who Benefits (and Who Loses) from Climate Adaptation Projects.” This research project developed and applied a novel social networkContinue reading “Who benefits from climate adaptation? Preliminary findings shared in workshops in Leyte Province, the Philippines”
Mapping social networks to understand who benefits from climate adaptation
Adaptation projects can reduce climate risk, but their benefits and burdens are not shared equally. Working with partners in Eastern Visayas, the Philippines, our team mapped relationships of power, information, and resources around the Leyte Tide Embankment Project (LTEP) to see who gains, who loses, and why. Between July and November 2025, we conducted 71Continue reading “Mapping social networks to understand who benefits from climate adaptation”
Social Dynamics and Environmental Change 