ICURA Canadian Co-applicants’ Meeting

1. ICURA Canadian Co-applicants’ Meeting Monday-Tuesday, December 13-14, 2009 Ottawa Co-directors: Patrick Watson, Dan Lane Canadian Co-applicants: Philippe Crabbé, Sue Nichols, Don Forbes, Ralph Matthews

2. Welcome • Agenda Review • Meeting Objectives ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

3. Meeting Objectives ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

4. Meeting Objectives Milestone Framework January 15, 2010 deliverable ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

5. Project title: “Managing adaptation to environmental change in coastal communities: Canada and the Caribbean” • Storm surge and sea level rise affecting water supply and coastal resources • Enhancing community preparedness and capacity to adapt ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

6. ICURA Team MembersCaribbean Workshop, Sept 3-7, 2008

7. ICURA Communities - Canada • Charlottetown, P.E.I. • below sea level • Isle Madame, Nova Scotia • flooding, salinisation of water supply • Gibsons, British Columbia • unknown supply of water from aquafers • Iqaluit, Nunavut • changing Arctic climate impacts ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

9. ICURA Communities - Caribbean • Grand Riviere, NE Trinidad • Trinidad spawning ground for leatherback turtles (ecotourism) • Belize Barrier Reef • UNESCO World Heritage Danger List • Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines • Ecotourism site • City of Georgetown, • Capital of Guyana (below sea level) ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

10. ICURA Objectives • develop local community capacity • improve planning for adaptation • focus on immediate and downstream consequences • establish formal collaboration and mutual co-learning opportunities • Task: Link objectives to project Milestones and Outputs ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

11. Formal Proposal: Objectives • develop local community capacity to close the gaps between inevitable environmental change and the urgent need for local coastal communities to adapt their own efforts to anticipate and plan for environmental impacts to their physical, economic, and social well-being • improve planning for adaptation through the development and incorporation of new policy and management measures consistent with established planning theory and guidelines, and the local context, through the identification and implementation of practical local alternatives for coastal resource management • focus on immediate and downstream consequences to coastal communities of the insidious effects of sea level rise and the potential catastrophic impacts of extreme weather events • establish formal collaboration and mutual co-learning opportunities among the selected Canadian and Caribbean coastal communities on comparative research on policy implementation for adaptation to coastal environmental shifts ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

12. Program Objectives • Community objectives • Establish formal Community-University alliances • Strengthen community institutional arrangements • Establish long-term linkages • Prepare community action plans • University objectives • Develop academic alliances • Collaborate on global research • Develop new curricula • Joint Community-University Alliances objectives • Identify the short and long term vulnerabilities • Mobilize knowledge and innovation • Build capacity • Develop impact scenarios, and prepare adaptation action plans Link to Project Outputs ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

13. Definition of Communities • Governance and local decision makers • municipal governments, regional, provincial, federal regulations • Private and public infrastructure services • planners and design professionals, utilities and services (fire, electrical, engineering contractors, jurists, insurance, health care) • Business and economic activity organizations • corporations, small businesses, boards of trade and commerce, development associations, community associations • Citizens’ groups • environmental advocates, indigenous communities, seniors • Affected individuals • especially special interest or disadvantaged members of the local society who are socially differentiated by poverty and across gender, class, race and age ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

14. Coastal Communities:Threat Criteria • serious, immediate threats to infrastructure and or natural environments (e.g. tourism infrastructure, natural resources, habitats, species), and to area residents (e.g., livelihoods, family structure, cultural assets, and vulnerabilities derived from poverty/gender issues) • ease of access to available data • opportunities for partnerships and alliances • team member familiarity with area and/or community champions in place ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

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16. Isle Madame, Cape Breton ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

17. ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting Source: http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/climatechange/potentialimpacts/coastalsensitivitysealevelrise

18. Methodology • Problem definition • Data collection and community database (SSM, SD) • Visual modelling (GIS) • Vulnerability modelling (VI) • Adaptive capacity and resilience modelling (VI, RI) • Development and assessment of policy options (SD) • Evaluation of group decision making (AHP) • Implementation of local adaptation planning and action frameworks ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

19. Research Process ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

20. The Research Process: Activities • Study area selection • Community alliance groups (members on the ground) • Description database development and GIS presentation • Alternative scenarios • Cumulative effects analysis • Adaptive capacity • Risk and vulnerability analysis • Policy and instruments • Strategic Adaptation Plans ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

21. Project Management (General) • Annual - reporting requirements and full team meetings (situated around conferences) • Quarterly - Regional (in country meetings in sites) • Monthly – Newsletter to team • Weekly – regular Website updates; ongoinh advertisements • Budgeting • Resource availability and use (resource costing) ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

22. The Research Process: Milestones & Methods • Year 1 • Establish project website as key communication link • Establish Community-University Alliance Groups (contact teams) • Develop community profiles, establish community inventory (resources, demographics, governance, activities, plans) • Year 2 • Prepare community spatial models with baseline indices (GIS, SD) • Develop space-based scenarios • Develop sensitivity and vulnerability indices • Year 3 • Work with community groups for ‘buy-in’ (SSM) • Provide community training in spatial and vulnerability index use (VI) • Year 4 • Prepare decision making guidelines for local dissemination • Discuss, review, and feedback scenarios and prepare monitoring and tracking capabilities • Year 5 • Develop and consolidate Final Report ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

23. Project Itinerary – Year 1 • March 12, 2009 Informal notification (announcement on hold) • June 4, 2009 Informal co-applicants & collaborators mtg • June 29-30, 2009 SSHRC-IDRC Start-Up and formal notice, Ottawa • Aug-Sept, 2009 Community visits with Partners (Arichat, Charlottetown, Gibsons) • October 21-24, 2009 OMRN Conference - ICURA joint meeting; Meeting with Canadian Partners, Ottawa • December 13-15 Meeting with Canadian Co-applicants, Ottawa • January 15, 2010 Milestone Framework deliverable • Feb-March 2010 Canada + Caribbean (T&T) joint mtg; partner site alternatives; SALISES Conference submissions • June 2010 CZCA Conference, Charlottetown, P.E.I. involvement • August 2010 Annual meeting – conference, presentation of work to date; participants and invited ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting

24. Project Outcomes • Creation and Communication of Knowledge • Co-Learning • Decision Support Tools • Monitoring and EvaluationIndicators • Training • Community Adaptation Action Plans(CAAPs) • Governance Institutional Advice ICURA Canadian Co-applicants Meeting