The COVID-19 pandemic altered almost every aspect of people’s lives and undermined human wellbeing. Now that restrictions have lifted, we need to identify the lingering effects of the pandemic to strategically direct the ongoing recovery process. We conducted a mixed-methods longitudinal analysis of material, relational and subjective wellbeing in five coastal fishing communities in Kenya before, during and after the implement...

The global community has been faced with multiple shocks in recent years, including the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing climate-driven environmental changes. Whether and how people can respond to such shocks depends on multiple factors, collectively referred to as adaptive capacity. Here, we explore how people in five coastal Kenyan communities drew on multiple domains of adaptive capacity to respond to the food security, liv...