Jacqueline Lau

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Jacqui is an environmental social scientist and DECRA Senior Research Fellow. Her research is interdisciplinary and draws together a range of social science disciplines—including human geography, development studies, sociology, and conservation—to examine issues of environmental justice and change in coastal communities, mostly in the Asia-Pacific.

Her ARC DECRA-funded research examines how moral values shape adaptation to environmental change along the Great Barrier Reef coast to help coastal communities and decision-makers navigate just and sustainable futures.

Jacqui currently sits in the College of Arts, Education & Social Sciences. From 2019-2022 she held a joint Research Fellow position with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and WorldFish. She studied sociology at the Australian National University (2012), and holds an MPhil in Environment, Society and Development (Cambridge University, 2014) and a PhD in environmental social science (JCU, 2019). 

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• The Conversation
• WorldFish Blogs
• Nature Behavioural & Social Sciences: 'Behind the Paper'
• RAID Network blog
• Crawford Fund News

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Mason, J., Eurich, J., Lau, J., et al., 2022. Operationalizing resilience to climate change in fisheries. Fish and Fisheries. 23(3): 522-544

Lau, J., Kleiber, D., Lawless, S. & Cohen, P. 2021. Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions. Nature Climate Change. 11:186-192

Lau, J., Song, A., Morrison, T., Fabinyi, M., Brown, K., Blythe, J., Allison, E. & Adger, N. 2021. Morals and climate change decision-making: Insights from behavioural and social sciences. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 52:27-35

Lau, J., Gurney, G. & Cinner, J. 2021. Environmental justice in coastal systems: perspectives from communities confronting change. Global Environmental Change.66:102208