Mere Jane Sawailau

Biographic Data

ID4462251
NAMEMere Jane Sawailau
GIVEN NAMESMere Jane
FAMILY NAMESawailau
SIGNATURESAWAILAU M J
AFFILIATIONSFiji National University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Operationalizing resilience

    Open AccessHannah Turner, Briony Rogers et al.ARTICLEClimate and Development2026

    Climate change has increased the frequency and severity of weather events worldwide, significantly affecting marginalized communities in Pacific Island Countries, especially in urban informal settlements. These communities face substantial challenges that necessitates a focus on resilience strategies. The prevalence of macro-resilience frameworks and top-down approaches, which often fail to meet the needs of the most vulnerable, has sparked calls…

  • Nothing about us without us

    Open AccessHannah Turner, Briony Rogers et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2025References: 15

    As global temperatures rise, so does the frequency and intensity of severe weather events and their risks to people and assets. These risks are especially acute for Pacific Islanders in urban informal settlements, given their socio-economic vulnerabilities and limited political influence. There is growing awareness that national adaptation strategies may not fully meet the needs of these vulnerable communities, leading to a focus on community-led…

  • An organizing framework to break down Western-centric views of knowledge in North–South research

    Open AccessHannah Turner, Briony Rogers et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2024References: 27

    The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01478-6

  • When it floods, we work on our own’

    Open AccessAllison P Salinger, Taylor D'Eramo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community & Applied…2024Cited by: 1References: 8

    More than one billion people worldwide are living in urban informal settlements where flood risks are high. Positive collective efficacy beliefs can facilitate community-level adaptive action. This sub-study of the Revitalizing Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) trial, aimed to identify social and contextual factors influencing residents' collective efficacy appraisals about their settlement's ability to implement community-level …

  • People are now working together for a common good”

    Open AccessAllison P Salinger, Isabel Charles et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2023Cited by: 3References: 14

    Communities with higher levels of social capital perform better than communities with lower social capital in community-level water and sanitation interventions and have better health outcomes. Although research recommends bolstering social capital to improve intervention outcomes, few studies provide empirical evidence on the effect of intervention activities on social capital. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of participatory design and …

  • Collaborating With Communities

    Open AccessErich Wolff, Matthew French et al.ARTICLEUrban Planning2021

    Concerns regarding the impacts of climate change on marginalised communities in the Global South have led to calls for affected communities to be more active as agents in the process of planning for climate change. While the value of involving communities in risk management is increasingly accepted, the development of appropriate tools to support community engagement in flood risk management projects remains nascent. Using the Revitalising Inform…