Dr. James Butler
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Dr. James Butler has a multi-disciplinary background in agricultural economics, terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecology gained in southern Africa, northern Europe and Australia.
His research interests are social-ecological systems resilience, adaptive co-management, ecosystem services and human well-being as concepts and tools for evaluating and mitigating current and future trade-offs and conflicts in natural resource management and sustainable livelihood development. His current focus is diagnosing community vulnerability to global change, including climate change, and designing multi-scale adaptation and strategies using participatory methods in tropical Australia and islands in the Asia-Pacific region.
Latest News
- Laws protecting the Great Barrier Reef to be introduced next week, Queensland Premier says - Thu 28th May 2015
- Let’s get serious about protecting wildlife in a warming world - Thu 28th May 2015
- We’ve only monitored a fraction of the Barrier Reef’s species - Thu 28th May 2015
- Great Barrier Reef: warmer waters helping coral-eating starfish thrive - Fri 13th Feb 2015
- You are what you eat—if you're a coral reef fish - Wed 17th Dec 2014
