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Coral reefs are in crisis. In Australia and abroad, many reefs are overfished and facing further degradation from other stressors such as climate change. My new Thriving Oceans Research Hub will link social science, fisheries, and marine ecology to improve the sustainability and resilience of coral reefs- and support the livelihoods of people who depend on them. In this talk, I highlight some emerging global-scale research on reef sustainability, and describe my plans to identify and study remarkably resilient reefs to inform positive change in other locations.

Professor Joshua E. Cinner | ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ of Sydney

Josh Cinner is a quantitative social scientist who studies human-environment interactions on tropical coasts. His background is in geography and my passion is sustainability-focused research at the intersection of social science and ecology. Josh frequently collaborates with ecologists to uncover the complex linkages between social and ecological systems, working on topics such as: defining the conditions that lead to sustainability; locating and learning from outliers; and examining how coastal societies and ecosystems respond to global environmental change. He has worked in Australia, Jamaica, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania, Mauritius, Seychelles, Indonesia, Mozambique, and the USA, where my research has had impacts on policy and conservation.

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