Strategic partnerships and Managing Networks - Coastal Cities at Risk (CCaR)

1. Strategic partnerships and Managing Networks - Coastal Cities at Risk (CCaR) Professor Anond Snidvongs, Chulalongkorn University and Southeast Asia START Regional Research Center (SEA-START), Bangkok, Thailand Professor Gordon McBean, CM, OOnt, FRSC, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada President- START International

2. CCaR Strategy • Interdisciplinary - natural, engineering, socio-political-economic and health scientists • Cities - Bangkok, Lagos, Manila, Vancouver • Building on Strategic International Partnerships with: • START • Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Program • Land-Ocean Interactions in Coastal Zone • Venice Coastal Project • World Weather Research Program of the World Meteorological Organization • World Climate Research Programme • Building on strategic Canadian partners

3. Working with START and IRDR The Canadian Team Cities and International Team IRDR IPO UM SFU IRDR ICoE UWO, UW, UT Vancouver Manila Bangkok Lagos

4. Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training: START The objective of START’s research-driven capacity building activities is to engage the scientific communities of developing regions in collaborative scientific research on GEC, applications and action/policy. START: • Promotes research & assessment on regional aspects of global change • Shares knowledge, expertise and data • Bridges between science & society to support decision making • Mobilizes financial, institutional and human resources.

5. Integrated assessment Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change (AIACC)

6. Example: AIACC Mekong Basin assessment http://www.aiaccproject.org/Final%20Reports/final_reports.html

7. Cities at Risk Theme Second International Conference onCities at Risk: Building Adaptive Capacities for Managing Climate Change Risks in Asian Coastal Cities (CAR II)Taipei, Taiwan, April 11-13, 2011 • Approximately 60-70 scientists for three days of presentations and discussions. • CCaR – Snidvongs, McBean, Harford, Stewart, Loyazaga, Poria, Adelekan, -... • Strategy for CCaR and linking to additional activities in Taipei, Jakarta, Mumbai, Hanoi, Shanghai, Hong Kong, ... CCaR - Canada

8. IRDR Integrated Research on Disaster Risk • Objective-1:Characterization of hazards, • vulnerability and risk • Objective 2:Effective decision making • in complex and changing risk contexts • Objective 3:Reducing risk and curbing • losses through knowledge-based actions • Cross-Cutting Themes • Capacity building • Case studies and demonstration projects • Assessment, data management and monitoring

9. ICSU-WMO-IOC/Unesco - World Climate Research Program Climate extremes WMO - World Weather Research Program Storms, floods Socio-Economic Research Activities IRDR • UNESCO-IOC-Tsunami risk ICSU-ISSC-UNU Land-Ocean Interactions in Coastal Zone Forensic Invest. Int’l Centers of Excellence Risk-Interpret-Action Disaster Loss Data Disaster Assessment

10. Registration and Abstract Submission Open

11. Building on strategic Canadian partners • Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, associated with and supported by the Insurance Bureau of Canada - workshops and discussions - insurance companies (Kovacs, McBean, Simonovic, Stewart, ...) • Climate Change as a security Issue- (McBean, Simonovic, Lannigan, Mortsch, Davies) • Integrated System Dynamics Model for Analyzing Behaviour of the Social-Economic-Climatic System (Simonovic, McBean and Davies) • Simon Fraser University ACT (Adaptation to Climate Change Team) (Harford, Whitfield, McBean ACT’s 2009 “Climate Change and Extreme Weather: Designing Adaptation Policy”)

12. Moving ahead, keeping cohesion, producing results • Visioning workshops – year 1 • Annual Workshops • 3rd Year – formal assessment - redirection • 5th Year – assessment • Exchanges – feedbacks from client workshops • ... • Theme and Project managers

13. An International Scientific Advisory Board Professor Roland Fuchs, East-West Center, University of Hawaii (Chair). Professor Fuchs is formerly Director of START and Vice-Rector of the United Nations University Paul Kovacs, Executive Director, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, CEO of Property and Casualty Insurance Compensation Corporation and formerly Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist, Insurance Bureau of Canada Professor Chao Han Liu, Vice-President, Academia Sinica Taipei and former President National Central Taiwan University Milton K. Wong, Chairman, Perceptonix, Vancouver, member Board of Directors, International Institute for Sustainable Development, formerly Chancellor, Simon Fraser University Professor Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Director, UNESCO International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan and Vice-Chair, SC IRDR Dr. Yuichi Ono, Chief, Disaster Risk Reduction Section, Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division, United Nations, Bangkok, Thailand Dr. Hassan Virji, Executive Director, START Dr. Jane Rovins, Executive Director, Integrated Research on Disaster Reduction, Beijing Professor Nordin Hasan, Director, ICSU Regional Office for Asia and Pacific, Malaysia Representatives of IDRC and others to be decided.

14. Focus on Outcomes and Legacy • Regular communications • Use of “meetings of opportunities” • ...