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.
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Latest tweets from @L_P_Jones
19 Jan@me_elfs @IPCC_CH @edwardrcarr @bl_preston @AromarRevi @DianaLiv @fernandezluis83 Best of luck to all 🤓!- 18 JanRT @JamieJBartlett: Fascinating example of how online & offline meet. Posters are going up of #Brexit statements that haven’t aged well - i…
- 11 JanWho spreads fake news? New study finds sharing is rare. But when it does happen it's mainly conservative and older… https://t.co/IEIChvcCFs
- 10 JanThrilled our interactive site tracking post-disaster recovery in real time using cellphones & subjective methods is… https://t.co/Re3cQSNm0T
- 07 JanBig step forward for the world of resilience measurement 🤓 @FAOclimate launches short version of the popular RIMA t… https://t.co/Y8TYgyjU6J
- 04 Jan"Particularly worrisome is the fact that any imperfect indicator – with its inability to measure exactly what we wa… https://t.co/YujzotzYeU
- 18 Dec'Direct air capture' of CO2 sucks (🥁). @Sam__Pickard looks at what other options are on the table: https://t.co/sK4dLSLGLT
- 06 DecInteresting quant @PLOS study asks if weather shocks negatively affect household welfare in Africa? Surprise surpri… https://t.co/PIn84miqRO
- 30 NovImportant study by @GRI_LSE colleagues launches new database on corporate climate action. Finds that 'while most co… https://t.co/LbKArXnTWa
- 27 Nov@CoughlanClimate @Braced @SHEAR_Programme @RoopSingh Love the break down in the table. Lots to consider. Though how… https://t.co/TYkPrEWYz5
- 27 Nov@CoughlanClimate @Braced @SHEAR_Programme @RoopSingh Naivety/arrogance(?) in assuming that researching vulnerabilit… https://t.co/qFcRvBjt81
- 26 NovDoes climate information support resilience? Great new report by @PercheJuliette uses data from @BRACED's innovativ… https://t.co/Zv3kPcrwXJ
- 13 NovFascinating! @DRiverobryant examines the impacts of natural hazards on numbers of women running for office in the a… https://t.co/PYkZ3qBWHV
- 05 NovRT @DrJNalau: Our new paper looks at #disaster #resilience and the underlying practice and #reserach trends since 2012, with insights to #p…
- 05 Nov@DrJNalau @AMTiernan @GriffithBiz @AchiengEO @unisdr @NWP_UNFCCC Resilience really has skyrocketted! Though are we… https://t.co/36RyU82RMS
- 01 NovVery proud to relaunch @Braced's 'Resilience Dashboard'! Visualising data from a unique mobile phone survey trackin… https://t.co/1d0RsdSfTr
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