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.

Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change (AIACC)

Integrated assessment

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

Registration and Abstract Submission Open

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.

Focus on Outcomes and Legacy

• Regular communications• Use of “meetings of opportunities”• ...