C-CHANGE Managing Adaptation to Environmental Change in Coastal Communities: Canada and the Caribbean
Gestión de la adaptación al cambio ambiental en las comunidades costeras: Canadá y el Caribe
Brief Description:
The project develops local community capacity designed to close the gaps between ongoing and anticipated environmental change, and the urgent need for coastal communities to foster and maintain their physical, economic, cultural, and social well-being. C-Change seeks to enhance community resilience through improved planning for adaptation. This may require mobilizing new knowledge and the development of new policy and management measures consistent with established local context and strategic planning. The focus is 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. C-Change acknowledges that capacity for planning adaptation and emergency preparedness must be integrated within the local context of the community using available scientific, management, and institutional governance arrangements. This project links community members and university researchers from Canada and the Caribbean region in support of applied research on coastal adaptation to environmental change from the impacts of storms and sea-level rise on susceptible coastal communities.
El proyecto desarrolla las capacidades de comunidades para cerrar las brechas entre el cambio ambiental actual y anticipado, y la necesidad urgente para que las comunidades costeras fomenten y mantengan su bienestar físico, económico, cultural y social. C-Change busca mejorar la resiliencia de la comunidad a través de una mejor planificación para la adaptación. Esto puede requerir la movilización de nuevos conocimientos y el desarrollo de nuevas políticas y medidas de gestión coherentes con el contexto local establecido y la planificación estratégica. La atención se centra en las consecuencias inmediatas y aguas abajo para las comunidades costeras de los efectos insidiosos del aumento del nivel del mar y los posibles impactos catastróficos de los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos. C-Change reconoce que la capacidad para planificar la adaptación y la preparación para emergencias debe integrarse dentro del contexto local de la comunidad utilizando los arreglos científicos, administrativos y de gobernanza institucional disponibles. Este proyecto vincula a miembros de la comunidad e investigadores universitarios de Canadá y la región del Caribe en apoyo de la investigación aplicada sobre la adaptación costera al cambio ambiental de los impactos de las tormentas y el aumento del nivel del mar en las comunidades costeras susceptibles.
Lead Organization : UWI, Trinidad and Tobago Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies
Donor: IDRC / SALISES (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)
Project Profile Manager: Patrick Watson
Contact Email: Patrick.watson@sta.uwi.edu Contact Phone:
Partners: Telfer School of Management of the University of Ottawa, OECS, World Resources Institute
Grant (USD):
$725,453.00
Total co-financing (USD):
$0.00
(Co) financing not originating from GEF:
Participating Country(s):
BelizeCanadaGuyanaSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesTrinidad and Tobago
Contributions to the 10-year CLME+ Strategic Action Programme (2015-2025)
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1. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for the protection of the marine environment
1.4. Enhance the compliance and enforcement capacity of the regional, sub-regional and national governance arrangements
2. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for sustainable fisheries
2.14. Establish and/or enhance the capacity of the regional, sub-regional and national fisheries governance arrangements for the monitoring, assessment & reporting on the state of fisheries
3. Establish and operationalise a regional policy coordination mechanismfor ocean governance, with initial focus on shared Living Marine Resources
3.5. Develop and coordinate integrated and sectoral research strategies in support of the implementation of broader ocean governance in the region, with a short and medium term focus on sLMR management
4. Enhance the governance arrangements for ecosystem-based management for reefs and associated ecosystems
4.8. Operationalise and strengthen interlinked Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for the protection of reefs and associated ecosystems and for the sustainable management of associated living marine resources
4A. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for spiny lobster fisheries
4B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for queen conch fisheries
5. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing an ecosystem approach for pelagic fisheries
5A. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing the ecosystem approach for flyingfish fisheries
5B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for large pelagics fisheries
6. Implement EBM/EAF of the Guianas-Brazil continental shelf with special reference to the shrimp and groundfish fishery
Contributions to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda (SDG’s)
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1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10 Reduce inequality within and among countries
11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.7 By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Other Regional and Global Commitments
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