Monthly Archives: September 2007

Making a case for new approaches to vulnerability

Adaptation is slowly making its way on the global agenda. With a high level ministerial happening at the United Nations in New York, and workshops on media messaging in Cairo, the issue is wloly getting the attention it deserves. Over the past month i have been working with other members of SustainUS in putting a [...]

Marine conservation, coastal management, and disaster prevention

The Locally-Managed Marine Areas Network (LMMA) has been the most
successful model for conservation and coastal management in South East
Asia and the South Pacific. In Fiji, the LMMA model has been successfully
replicated in over a 100 golingolis (coastal management units), and communities have started to educate other communities as they become
trainers of the model. One of [...]