Coastal livelihoods: preserving oceans to strengthen coastal resilience

  • What it is

    Support of 8 coastal livelihood preservation postdoc projects

  • Who it’s for

    Early-career researchers, coastal communities

  • What it’s for

    Improve awareness and solution building around the coastal Ocean

The AXA Research Fund, the philanthropic scientific initiative of the AXA Group, will provide €1M in total to 8 excellent scientific projects in the area of coastal livelihood in a sponsored call for Decade Actions with IOC-UNESCO.

This Call was launched in early October 2021 as part of the Ocean Decade’s Call for Decade Actions No. 02/2021.

See here the endorsed projects:

Strengthening coastal communities' resilience through better forecasting and projecting compound flood risk - Andrea Ficchì, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Community forestry to enhance conservation and restoration of mangroves for more resilient coastal livelihoods - Valerie Hagger, The University of Queensland, Australia

Navigating social barriers in coastal livelihood adaptation - Jacqueline Lau, ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, Australia

Transboundary governance for climate change adaptation in marine socio-ecological systems - Emmanuel Mbaru, Lancaster University, UK

Women’s livelihoods in vulnerable coastlines - Megnaa Mehtta, University College London

Integrating aquaculture with capture fisheries to avert hunger in coastal communities in Africa - Nwamaka Okeke-Ogbuafor, University of Leeds, UK

Mitigating tsunamis' threat and destructive impact on coastal communities through enhanced navigation satellite system to tsunami early warnings - Michela Ravanelli, University La Sapienza, Italy

Climate-smart strategies to develop resilience in artisanal fisheries of Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas - Marina Sanz-Martín, Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Spanish National Research Council (IEO-CSIC), Spain