Working Title: Can we build community resilience to climate change through ecological restoration? The case for deliberative governance.

Resource dependent settlements and communities in reef environments are highly vulnerable to climate change and face an uncertain social, economic and environmental future. In order to avoid some of the worst impacts of climate change, scientists, governments and communities have turned to notions of community resilience as a potential strategy for adapting to and mitigating climate change. Concepts of resilience have been considered in human...