Coasting through environmental change?
A sea level rise, increased severity of storms, and coral bleaching are only a few of the changes anticipated for islands in the Caribbean, and these have direct implications for coastal tourism.
Read MoreAuthor: Jillian Student
Jillian is a PhD candidate at Wageningen University researching at the Environmental Policy and Environmental Systems Analysis Groups. The title of her thesis is Vulnerability is dynamic: Enhancing adaptive governance to climate change for Caribbean tourism through interactive modelling. Her main fields of research interest are human-environmental dynamics, interactive (companion) modelling, coastal tourism, environmental change, participatory research, and agent-based modelling. Jillian completed her fieldwork on Barbados and Curaçao and participated in the 2017 Young Scientists Summer Program at IIASA.