Dr Alvin Chandra
Adjunct Senior Fellow
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Book Chapter
Chandra, Alvin and McNamara, Karen E. (2018). Climate-smart agriculture in Southeast Asia: lessons from community-based adaptation programs in the Philippines and Timor-Leste. Resilience: the science of adaptation to climate change. (pp. 165-179) edited by Zinta Zommers and Keith Alverson. Kidlington, Oxford, United States: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-811891-7.00013-x
Journal Articles
Westoby, Ross, Clissold, Rachel, McNamara, Karen E., Latai-Niusulu, Anita and Chandra, Alvin (2022). Cascading loss and loss risk multipliers amid a changing climate in the Pacific Islands. Ambio, 51 (5), 1239-1246. doi: 10.1007/s13280-021-01640-9
McNamara, Karen E., Westoby, Ross and Chandra, Alvin (2021). Exploring climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.07.004
McNamara, Karen E., Westoby, Ross, Clissold, Rachel and Chandra, Alvin (2021). Understanding and responding to climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands. Climate Risk Management, 33 100336, 100336. doi: 10.1016/j.crm.2021.100336
Chandra, Alvin, McNamara, Karen and Dargusch, Paul (2018). Climate-smart agriculture: perspectives and framings. Climate Policy, 18 (4), 526-541. doi: 10.1080/14693062.2017.1316968
Chandra, Alvin, Dargusch, Paul, McNamara, Karen E., Caspe, Ana Maria and Dalabajan, Dante (2017). A study of climate-smart farming practices and climate resiliency field schools in Mindanao the Philippines. World Development, 98, 214-230. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.04.028
Chandra, Alvin, McNamara, Karen E., Dargusch, Paul, Caspe, Ana Maria and Dalabajan, Dante (2017). Gendered vulnerabilities of smallholder farmers to climate change in conflict-prone areas: a case study from Mindanao, Philippines. Journal of Rural Studies, 50, 45-59. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.12.011
Chandra, Alvin, McNamara, Karen and Dargusch, Paul (2017). The relevance of political ecology perspectives for smallholder Climate-Smart Agriculture: a review. Journal of Political Ecology, 24, 821-942.
Chandra, Alvin, Dargusch, Paul and McNamara, Karen E. (2016). How might adaptation to climate change by smallholder farming communities contribute to climate change mitigation outcomes? A case study from Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia. Sustainability Science, 11 (3), 477-492. doi: 10.1007/s11625-016-0361-9
Chandra, Alvin, McNamara, Karen E., Dargusch, Paul, Damen, Beau, Rioux, Janie, Dallinger, Jonas and Bacudo, Imelda (2016). Resolving the UNFCCC divide on climate-smart agriculture. Carbon Management, 7 (5), 295-299. doi: 10.1080/17583004.2016.1235420
Chandra, Alvin and Gaganis, Petros (2015). Deconstructing vulnerability and adaptation in a coastal river basin ecosystem: a participatory analysis of flood risk in Nadi, Fiji Islands. Climate and Development, 8 (3), 256-269. doi: 10.1080/17565529.2015.1016884
Newspaper Article
Chandra, Alvin and McNamara, Karen Elizabeth (2017, 07 25). In Philippines, climate change and conflict both conspire against rural women The Conversation
Thesis
Chandra, Alvin (2017). Climate-smart agriculture in practice: insights from smallholder farmers, Timor-Leste and the Philippines, Southeast Asia. PhD Thesis, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.880