Johanna Loehr

Dr Johanna Loehr is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University. Johanna’s research focuses on increasing the net benefits tourism creates for the wider system in which it occurs with a particular focus on addressing climate change. She conducted her PhD on reducing climate change risk to destinations in Vanuatu holistically and has published on sustainable tourism, tourism and climate change, system change and environmental policy in top ranked tourism journals. Johanna brings with her years of practical experience working in the field of sustainable tourism. She has undertaken consultancy work in Australia and internationally, including for the Queensland Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, German Agency for International Cooperation and Asian Development Bank. Johanna is a Lead Expert of the Tourism Panel on Climate Change and contributed to Chapter 15 Small Islands of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6, WGII).