Lindsey Jones
Lindsey works on issues of climate change, adaptation and development. His background lies in international development and global environmental governance.
Lindsey Jones is a Fellow working on issues of climate change, adaptation and development.
Lindsey has previously worked with the United Nations Development Programme in Nepal (supporting the country’s National Adaptation Plan of Action) and the World Food Programme. Lindsey has an MSc in Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford and has experience working in Southern and Eastern Africa (namely Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uganda, and South Africa), and Southern and South-Eastern Asia (India, Nepal, and Cambodia).
Current (and future) research activities/interests include:
- Evaluating the effectiveness of adaptation planning/programming
- Tracking adaptation finance at different scales
- Supporting adaptation and resilience in fragile and conflict-affect areas
- Designing new tools to promote adaptation and DRR awareness (such as 'policy gaming')
- Identifying and overcoming barriers to adaptation
- Understanding the Political Economy of adaptation
- Exploring barriers and opportunities to the uptake of climate science in supporting long-term decision making
If interested in finding out more about these projects, or discussing potentional collaborations, please get in contact directly.
Media coverage
Latest tweets from @L_P_Jones
28 Oct@jcgaillard_uoa @EmmanuelRaju7 @COPE_KU Looks fascinating! Will the event be recorded and shared by any chance?- 23 OctCoincidentally @schipper_lisa, awesome to see you draw on and recommend some of our old ideas on maladaptation with… https://t.co/a5pTaMyJ5Y
- 23 OctA must read 👏 "Maladaptation is thus not just a waste of time and money; it is when an action results in condition… https://t.co/1J1Kl0X8mO
- 19 OctMake Sustainable Development Cool Again ❄️😎 Fascinating take on why cooling systems should be higher up the develo… https://t.co/cgbVOCIgkw
- 14 OctRT @RGS_IBGhe: New in #TheGJ: Addressing power & scale in resilience programming: a call to engage across funding, delivery and evaluation,…
- 08 OctRT @Nate_Matthews_: New Open Access Paper: Addressing power and scale in resilience programming: a call to engage across funding, delivery…
- 07 OctImportant findings: medium-term impacts of climate change on poverty likely to be just as large as from COVID Stro… https://t.co/LEHCPssQ7x
- 02 OctAn interesting new approach, with some very large implications for policy (and resilience measurement) 🤓 https://t.co/nTbAG6CXAW
- 23 SepInteresting that @TheEconomist shows the US election tightening in recent weeks, while @FiveThirtyEight has the rac… https://t.co/kCJ97WiBS8
- 22 SepRT @DrSimEvans: Yeah so this is huge "We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060." Official…
- 22 SepRT @irinasandu_ec: And what better testimony of the amazing leap in #NumericalWeatherPrediction over the past decades than this almost spit…
- 15 SepYes, yes, yes 👏 "Power dynamics between institutions in the Global North and South can, if not adequately managed,… https://t.co/sTcL8Owadn
- 02 SepRT @ONantermoz: Looking forward to hear @AudreyAlejand , @rachelefraser and @L_P_Jones on creating an academic website and how it contribut…
- 31 AugRT @TimoLeiter: @L_P_Jones @NatureClimate Apart from not including anything new, the commentary's assumption that #adaptation costs would a…
- 28 AugRT @gibranvita: Can resilience be purchased? Can rich countries build resilience in the global south by shaping investments and “suggesti…
- 27 AugGreat to see strong perspectives on scaling resilience from others fields But this seems blindingly technocentric:… https://t.co/Xmfksqzo6s
