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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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
- 24 OctRT @ColinMcQuistan: .@L_P_Jones @GRI_LSE presenting his studies on resilience... "Different characterisations of resilience make little dif…
- 05 Oct
- 05 OctRT @janna_tenzing: Great new paper by @L_P_Jones on subjective/objective approaches to measuring #resilience! - featuring #TAMD @SiMacAnder…
- 03 Oct'Resilience' is the new development buzzword! But how to measure it? New paper out in @WIREs_Climate explores the c… https://t.co/LIGWI38f90
- 27 SepMy two cents on how mobile technologies are shacking up the way we track resilience and disaster recovery - offerin… https://t.co/xjlbi1xEIe
- 13 Sep@Susannahfisher @JeanetBentzen Indeed! Was meant more in relation to the study's data (rather than data at large).… https://t.co/ws3VfxdPM7
- 13 SepFYI, @VolcanoJenni, finding also applies to volcanoes, though interestingly 'only in districts within 1000 km of a… https://t.co/qkMcbCzBL5
- 13 SepImpressive work by @JeanetBentzen looks at religion as a coping mechanism after natural hazards. Finds individuals… https://t.co/qGrzxu9lIj
- 12 SepRT @louise_seamster: umm...I did not anticipate the collision of revenge porn and debt product. shame on me I guess https://t.co/Yea980Hk0D
- 10 SepFindings from research suggest some overlap between how researchers see resilience & how people see it themselves.… https://t.co/1zluV1vX17
- 10 SepWe can use a statistical model to see whether factors contribute positively/negatively to resilience. Many factors… https://t.co/y9DAUL7AvR
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