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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
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
Vancouver
LagosBangkok
Manila
UWO, UW, UT
SFU UM
Working with START and IRDR
IRDRIPO
IRDRICoE
The Canadian Team
Cities and International Team
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:
o Promotes research & assessment on regional aspects of
global change
o Shares knowledge, expertise and data
o Bridges between science & society to support decision making
o Mobilizes financial, institutional and human resources.
Example: AIACC Mekong Basin assessment
http://www.aiaccproject.org/Final%20Reports/final_reports.html
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
Cities at Risk Theme
IRDRIntegrated Research on Disaster Risk
Objective-1:Characterization of hazards, vulnerability and riskObjective 2:Effective decision making in complex and changing risk contextsObjective 3:Reducing risk and curbing losses through knowledge-based actions Cross-Cutting Themes1.Capacity building2.Case studies and demonstration projects3.Assessment, data management and monitoring
IRDR
WMO - World Weather Research Program
Storms, floods
Socio-Economic Research Activities
ICSU-WMO-IOC/Unesco - World Climate Research
ProgramClimate extremes
ICSU-ISSC-UNU Land-Ocean
Interactions in Coastal ZoneForensic Invest.
Risk-Interpret-Action
Disaster Loss Data
Disaster Assessment
•UNESCO-IOC-Tsunami risk
Int’l Centers of Excellence
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”)
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
An International Scientific Advisory BoardProfessor 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,
MalaysiaRepresentatives of IDRC and others to be decided.