Darryn Mcevoy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darryn Mcevoy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcevoy |
| SIGNATURE | MCEVOY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4144-4137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Advancing just climate adaptation in the global South: Socio-technical assistance for nature-based solutions in the Pacific
Socio-technical assistance projects advancing the use of urban nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining currency in the global South, but many gaps exist in our understanding of how they can lead to more just outcomes. We examine the literature of informal settlement upgrading and climate adaptation in the global South to conceptualize contemporary socio-technical assistance projects using NbS. Building upon selected case studies in small island …
Rethinking Climate Extreme Events and (Im)mobility From a Place-Based Perspective
The frequency and intensity of climate extreme events (both slow and rapid onset) are projected to increase due to human-induced climate change. Thus, as a response, people's decisions of whether to move (mobility) or stay (immobility) from the face of climate extreme events will become increasingly important. To date, literature has established that these (im)mobilities are not linear responses to climate extreme events, and instead is a dynamic…
Localized nature-based solutions for enhanced climate resilience and community wellbeing in urban informal settlements
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are considered to hold promise for addressing the pressing and multi-faceted challenges of climate resilience. Addressing this contemporary agenda, this research paper explores the potential value of NbS in urban contexts based on the experience of implementing four NbS pilots to address climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction in an informal settlement in Honiara, Solomon Islands. The project, funded by the Swe…
Community profiling to support inclusive urban community-based climate adaptation: Experiences of a survey-based approach in urban informal settlements in Honiara, Solomon Islands
Urban centres in the Pacific region are fast growing, with cities presenting as complex sites of risk and vulnerability. Within these cities, urban informal settlement communities are often some of the most vulnerable to climate change and impacts and urban climate planning needs to explicitly consider the priority needs of these often-marginalized communities if strategies are to be equitable. Hence, inclusive urban community-based adaptation is…
Implications of climate change for shipping: Ports and supply chains
Ports are an important economic actor—at local, national, and international scales—that have been identified as being vulnerable to future changes to the climate. This paper details the findings from an international review of state‐of‐the‐art knowledge concerning climate risks, and adaptation responses, for ports and their supply chains. Evidence from both academic and gray literature indicates that there has already been major damage and disrup…
Leveraging endogenous climate resilience: Urban adaptation in Pacific Small Island Developing States
Pacific Small Island Developing States are often referred to as the “frontline” of climate change, facing an array of worsening climate-related shocks and stressors. However, despite their underlying exposure to climate change impacts, the role of Pacific Island cities as both an avenue for adaptation and sites of climate vulnerability is often overlooked. This paper reflects on two ongoing participatory action research projects conducted by UN-H…
Climate change, equity and the Sustainable Development Goals: An urban perspective
Climate change is acknowledged as the largest threat to our societies in the coming decades, potentially affecting large and diverse groups of urban residents in this century of urbanization. As urban areas house highly diverse people with differing vulnerabilities, intensifying climate change is likely to shift the focus of discussions from a general urban perspective to who in cities will be affected by climate change, and how. This brings the …
Perceptions of Climate Vulnerability, Tenure Security and Resettlement Priorities: Insights from Lami Town, Fiji Islands
The future impact of climate change will be a considerable challenge for all countries, and in particular Small Island Developing States. Challenges related to climate vulnerability and tenure security are exacerbated in areas of rapid urbanisation and urban growth, with highly vulnerable informal settlements a common result. Drawing on research into vulnerable informal settlements in the Greater Suva Urban Area in Fiji, this research seeks to be…
Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation: The Importance of Framing
In the Australian policy context, there has recently been a discernible shift in the discourse used when considering responses to the impacts of current weather extremes and future climate change. Commonly used terminology, such as climate change impacts and vulnerability, is now being increasingly replaced by a preference for language with more positive connotations as represented by resilience and a focus on the ‘strengthening’ of local communi…
Resilience: A Bridging Concept or a Dead End?“Reframing” Resilience: Challenges for Planning Theory and PracticeInteracting Traps: Resilience Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afgh…
Introduction The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929) We live in challenging times with a heightened sense of uncer...
The role of tourism in a changing climate for conservation and development. A problem-oriented study in the Kailash Sacred Landscape, Nepal
Imagining the unimaginable: Synthesis of essays on abrupt and extreme climate change
The climate change challenge: Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and mitigation
Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in the Urban Environment: Assessing Climate Change Related Risk in UK Urban Areas
This paper presents a conurbation‐scale risk assessment methodology which aims to provide a screening tool to assist with planning for climate change‐related risks in the urban environment. This work has been undertaken as part of a wider, interdisciplinary project, Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in the Urban Environment (ASCCUE). The main focus of ASCCUE is to help improve understanding of the consequences of climate change for urban a…
Managing the Flow of Construction Minerals in the North West Region of England: A Mass Balance Approach
This article, focusing on the flow of bulk construction minerals, establishes a mass balance framework for the North West of England, a region that imports more aggregate material than any other in the United Kingdom. The problems associated with construction minerals are of a different nature than most other resource flow issues: Depletion of resources and contamination are not considered major problems; rather it is the environmental impact res…
Bulk mineral flows and the sustainable development of the North West of England
Although industrial economies depend on natural resources to fulfil fundamental societal needs and to improve quality of life, increasing exploitation of these resources is exerting increasing pressure on our planet's ecological integrity. This paper, focusing on construction minerals, establishes a mass balance framework for the chosen case study – the North West of England – and uses the results to examine the implications for the sustainabilit…
Toolkits for regional sustainable development
Reducing Residential Carbon Intensity: The New Role for English Local Authorities
The residential sector is a substantial source of CO 2 in the UK, accounting for over 25 per cent of all end-use emissions. Improvements in energy efficiency are often cited as important elements of carbon reduction packages, with policy-makers emphasising the significant `untapped' potential of improved energy use in the home. The design and implementation of policies at a local level have a particularly important role to play, recognised by nat…
The employment implications of a low-carbon economy
The threat of global warming and unacceptable levels of unemployment are two items high on policy agendas in the 1990s. Increasing emphasis on ‘sustainable development’ ensures that debate surrounding the relationship between jobs and the environment is kept under the research microscope. In the past, the supposed incompatibility of environmental protection and employment was a fairly deep-rooted and little-contested belief. However, recent ‘revi…
Climate change, equity and the Sustainable Development Goals: An urban perspective
Climate change is acknowledged as the largest threat to our societies in the coming decades, potentially affecting large and diverse groups of urban residents in this century of urbanization. As urban areas house highly diverse people with differing vulnerabilities, intensifying climate change is likely to shift the focus of discussions from a general urban perspective to who in cities will be affected by climate change, and how. This brings the …
Leveraging endogenous climate resilience: Urban adaptation in Pacific Small Island Developing States
Pacific Small Island Developing States are often referred to as the “frontline” of climate change, facing an array of worsening climate-related shocks and stressors. However, despite their underlying exposure to climate change impacts, the role of Pacific Island cities as both an avenue for adaptation and sites of climate vulnerability is often overlooked. This paper reflects on two ongoing participatory action research projects conducted by UN-H…
Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in the Urban Environment: Assessing Climate Change Related Risk in UK Urban Areas
This paper presents a conurbation‐scale risk assessment methodology which aims to provide a screening tool to assist with planning for climate change‐related risks in the urban environment. This work has been undertaken as part of a wider, interdisciplinary project, Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in the Urban Environment (ASCCUE). The main focus of ASCCUE is to help improve understanding of the consequences of climate change for urban a…
Implications of climate change for shipping: Ports and supply chains
Ports are an important economic actor—at local, national, and international scales—that have been identified as being vulnerable to future changes to the climate. This paper details the findings from an international review of state‐of‐the‐art knowledge concerning climate risks, and adaptation responses, for ports and their supply chains. Evidence from both academic and gray literature indicates that there has already been major damage and disrup…
The climate change challenge: Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and mitigation
The role of tourism in a changing climate for conservation and development. A problem-oriented study in the Kailash Sacred Landscape, Nepal
Perceptions of Climate Vulnerability, Tenure Security and Resettlement Priorities: Insights from Lami Town, Fiji Islands
The future impact of climate change will be a considerable challenge for all countries, and in particular Small Island Developing States. Challenges related to climate vulnerability and tenure security are exacerbated in areas of rapid urbanisation and urban growth, with highly vulnerable informal settlements a common result. Drawing on research into vulnerable informal settlements in the Greater Suva Urban Area in Fiji, this research seeks to be…
Reducing Residential Carbon Intensity: The New Role for English Local Authorities
The residential sector is a substantial source of CO 2 in the UK, accounting for over 25 per cent of all end-use emissions. Improvements in energy efficiency are often cited as important elements of carbon reduction packages, with policy-makers emphasising the significant `untapped' potential of improved energy use in the home. The design and implementation of policies at a local level have a particularly important role to play, recognised by nat…
The employment implications of a low-carbon economy
The threat of global warming and unacceptable levels of unemployment are two items high on policy agendas in the 1990s. Increasing emphasis on ‘sustainable development’ ensures that debate surrounding the relationship between jobs and the environment is kept under the research microscope. In the past, the supposed incompatibility of environmental protection and employment was a fairly deep-rooted and little-contested belief. However, recent ‘revi…
Toolkits for regional sustainable development
Reducing Residential Carbon Intensity: The New Role for English Local Authorities
The residential sector is a substantial source of CO 2 in the UK, accounting for over 25 per cent of all end-use emissions. Improvements in energy efficiency are often cited as important elements of carbon reduction packages, with policy-makers emphasising the significant `untapped' potential of improved energy use in the home. The design and implementation of policies at a local level have a particularly important role to play, recognised by nat…
Managing the Flow of Construction Minerals in the North West Region of England: A Mass Balance Approach
This article, focusing on the flow of bulk construction minerals, establishes a mass balance framework for the North West of England, a region that imports more aggregate material than any other in the United Kingdom. The problems associated with construction minerals are of a different nature than most other resource flow issues: Depletion of resources and contamination are not considered major problems; rather it is the environmental impact res…
Bulk mineral flows and the sustainable development of the North West of England
Although industrial economies depend on natural resources to fulfil fundamental societal needs and to improve quality of life, increasing exploitation of these resources is exerting increasing pressure on our planet's ecological integrity. This paper, focusing on construction minerals, establishes a mass balance framework for the chosen case study – the North West of England – and uses the results to examine the implications for the sustainabilit…
Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in the Urban Environment: Assessing Climate Change Related Risk in UK Urban Areas
This paper presents a conurbation‐scale risk assessment methodology which aims to provide a screening tool to assist with planning for climate change‐related risks in the urban environment. This work has been undertaken as part of a wider, interdisciplinary project, Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in the Urban Environment (ASCCUE). The main focus of ASCCUE is to help improve understanding of the consequences of climate change for urban a…
The climate change challenge: Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and mitigation
Imagining the unimaginable: Synthesis of essays on abrupt and extreme climate change
Resilience: A Bridging Concept or a Dead End?“Reframing” Resilience: Challenges for Planning Theory and PracticeInteracting Traps: Resilience Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afgh…
Introduction The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929) We live in challenging times with a heightened sense of uncer...
The role of tourism in a changing climate for conservation and development. A problem-oriented study in the Kailash Sacred Landscape, Nepal
Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation: The Importance of Framing
In the Australian policy context, there has recently been a discernible shift in the discourse used when considering responses to the impacts of current weather extremes and future climate change. Commonly used terminology, such as climate change impacts and vulnerability, is now being increasingly replaced by a preference for language with more positive connotations as represented by resilience and a focus on the ‘strengthening’ of local communi…
Climate change, equity and the Sustainable Development Goals: An urban perspective
Climate change is acknowledged as the largest threat to our societies in the coming decades, potentially affecting large and diverse groups of urban residents in this century of urbanization. As urban areas house highly diverse people with differing vulnerabilities, intensifying climate change is likely to shift the focus of discussions from a general urban perspective to who in cities will be affected by climate change, and how. This brings the …
Perceptions of Climate Vulnerability, Tenure Security and Resettlement Priorities: Insights from Lami Town, Fiji Islands
The future impact of climate change will be a considerable challenge for all countries, and in particular Small Island Developing States. Challenges related to climate vulnerability and tenure security are exacerbated in areas of rapid urbanisation and urban growth, with highly vulnerable informal settlements a common result. Drawing on research into vulnerable informal settlements in the Greater Suva Urban Area in Fiji, this research seeks to be…
Implications of climate change for shipping: Ports and supply chains
Ports are an important economic actor—at local, national, and international scales—that have been identified as being vulnerable to future changes to the climate. This paper details the findings from an international review of state‐of‐the‐art knowledge concerning climate risks, and adaptation responses, for ports and their supply chains. Evidence from both academic and gray literature indicates that there has already been major damage and disrup…
Leveraging endogenous climate resilience: Urban adaptation in Pacific Small Island Developing States
Pacific Small Island Developing States are often referred to as the “frontline” of climate change, facing an array of worsening climate-related shocks and stressors. However, despite their underlying exposure to climate change impacts, the role of Pacific Island cities as both an avenue for adaptation and sites of climate vulnerability is often overlooked. This paper reflects on two ongoing participatory action research projects conducted by UN-H…
Community profiling to support inclusive urban community-based climate adaptation: Experiences of a survey-based approach in urban informal settlements in Honiara, Solomon Islands
Urban centres in the Pacific region are fast growing, with cities presenting as complex sites of risk and vulnerability. Within these cities, urban informal settlement communities are often some of the most vulnerable to climate change and impacts and urban climate planning needs to explicitly consider the priority needs of these often-marginalized communities if strategies are to be equitable. Hence, inclusive urban community-based adaptation is…
Localized nature-based solutions for enhanced climate resilience and community wellbeing in urban informal settlements
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are considered to hold promise for addressing the pressing and multi-faceted challenges of climate resilience. Addressing this contemporary agenda, this research paper explores the potential value of NbS in urban contexts based on the experience of implementing four NbS pilots to address climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction in an informal settlement in Honiara, Solomon Islands. The project, funded by the Swe…
Advancing just climate adaptation in the global South: Socio-technical assistance for nature-based solutions in the Pacific
Socio-technical assistance projects advancing the use of urban nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining currency in the global South, but many gaps exist in our understanding of how they can lead to more just outcomes. We examine the literature of informal settlement upgrading and climate adaptation in the global South to conceptualize contemporary socio-technical assistance projects using NbS. Building upon selected case studies in small island …
Rethinking Climate Extreme Events and (Im)mobility From a Place-Based Perspective
The frequency and intensity of climate extreme events (both slow and rapid onset) are projected to increase due to human-induced climate change. Thus, as a response, people's decisions of whether to move (mobility) or stay (immobility) from the face of climate extreme events will become increasingly important. To date, literature has established that these (im)mobilities are not linear responses to climate extreme events, and instead is a dynamic…
Geography (16 works) · Environmental planning (15 works) · Environmental resource management (14 works) · Climate change (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (9 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)