The Human Wellbeing and Coastal Resilience network is brought together by a common concern over the growing vulnerability of coastal people and the ecosystem services on which they depend.

The network aims to connect, and support, activities that work towards improved governance for human wellbeing and coastal resilience worldwide.

In doing so, we strive for enhanced collective learning and debate across different scientific disciplines, geographical scales, and coastal contexts, which can inform coastal governance and policy processes.

Our members span academic, civil society, consultancy, and policy making sectors from across the globe.

This network was initiated following a pilot project entitled ‘Building Capacity for Sustainable Governance in South Asian Fisheries: Poverty, Wellbeing and Deliberative Policy Networks’ (shortened to 'Building Sustainable Governance (BSG) 2009-2010'). The BSG project brought together a range of scientific, policy and political actors involved in the fisheries sector in South Asia to develop and strengthen nascent deliberative policy networks. These networks seek to advance new forms of solution to accommodate the clash between ecosystem service sustainability and the needs of human development and poverty alleviation, with a particular focus on fisheries.
The Human Wellbeing and Coastal Resilience network forms a central hub to connect the many existing and potential activities around the Building Sustainable Governance project and acts as a global dissemination platform for research outputs and on-going dialogue.
The BSG project was funded by the Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation Programme (ESPA) managed by the UK research councils NERC and ESRC, and the Department for International Development.