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1 ISLANDS AN INCUBATORS OF CLIMATE RESILIENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Kalim Shah, Ph.D. School of Public & Environmental Affairs Indiana University, United States October 5, 2016 Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC.

2 Funafuti, the main island of the nation state of Tuvalu in the South Pacific. (Associated Press, 2014) Islands are Complex Socio-Ecological Systems Climate Change Stresses Climate Resilience

3 CHARACTERISTICS OF CLIMATE RESILIENT SYSTEMS Diversity and Redundancy Inter connectivity Manages Slow Variables, Feedback and shock Integrative Thinking Photo: Mott MacDonald 2016 Encourages Learning Broadens Participation Photo: World Wildlife Fund 2016 Polycentric Governance Systems

4 AGENTS AND INSTITUTIONS BUILD CLIMATE RESILIENT SYSTEMS Government Business & Industry Community / Civil Society Implementing Agencies /Donors Barbados News 2015

5 CASE STUDIES IN BUILDING RESILIENCY In Action BHP Billiton and the Turtle Village Trust (TT) Parish Councils System (Barbados) Tropical Shipping and Ports (Caribbean) PAHO Green Hospitals (St. Kitts, BVI) Climate Resilience For (more) Action Hotels, hospitality & value chains Business & industry associations Production & manufacturing Clusters

6 1. BHP BILLITON AND THE TURTLE VILLAGE TRUST (TT) Government Business & Industry Community / Civil Society

7 1. BHP Billiton and the Turtle Village Trust (TT) Turtle populations stabilized; attendant coastal ecosystems Community based economic activities Build eco-tourism marketing networks; Tobago Climate Resilience Eco-tourism; NGO community meeting place Micro-business generation beyond seasonality Fill Legitimacy gaps in partnerships; adaptive cycle Coastal ecology; fisheries; entrepreneurship

8 PARISH COUNCILS SYSTEM (BARBADOS) Government Business & Industry Community / Civil Society

9 2. PARISH COUNCILS SYSTEM (BARBADOS) Builds out and extends from traditional parish church and village assemblies Distributed efforts to control invasive snail population Climate Resilience Build Back Better opportunities in partnership with government and businesses Women in Leadership and Gender/ Diversity mainstreaming Network with other government programs; agencies; resources Several leadership and networking opportunities for Women Sustainable agricultural systems; micro-businesses

10 TROPICAL SHIPPING AND PORTS Government (C ARIBBEAN) Busines Business s & Industr Industry y Community Community / / Civil Civil Society Society

11 3. TROPICAL SHIPPING AND PORTS (CARIBBEAN) Energy efficiency and conservation practices Incorporation of local operational norms Climate Resilience Emergency management; health and safety; customs hardware and software Technology; Resiliency for competitiveness and national development Caribbean wide networking among port authorities; sharing best practices Port authority training; community involvement More efficient early warning systems; port operations; asset management

12 PAHO GREEN HOSPITALS (ST. KITTS, BVI) Government Implementing Agencies /Donors

13 4. PAHO GREEN HOSPITALS (ST. KITTS, BVI) Eco-efficiency upgrades and re-engineering Inclusion of community norms in operations Climate Resilience Storm resistant building rehabilitation; winds, floods Build back Better; adapting crosssectorally; crossjurisdictionally Community health and preventative services outreach Improved emergency medicine capabilities; emphasis on women, elderly, special needs Improved services of community hospital including in emergencies

14 CHARACTERIZING WHAT WORKS IN AGENT BASED RELATIONSHIPS Building Legitimacy and Trust among diverse and distant agents and maintaining throughout policy/ program cycle is critical to ongoing sustainability of efforts. Responsiveness through co-ordination and collaboration matrices: Ability to organize, or reorganize in a timely manner; response to operational threat, or organizational failure (e.g. political environment changes); and to respond quickly in its aftermath. Manage and leverage resource dependencies: Capacity to mobilize assets and resources for action. This includes the ability to access financial and other assets, including those of other agents and systems. Capacity to learn: Agent groups internalize past experiences, avoid repeated failures and innovate to improve performance. This includes the capacity to build and retain knowledge over time.

15 RELEVANCE OF FINDINGS TO CLIMATE RESILIENT ISLAND DEVELOPMENT Sustainability of efforts and not pockets of fireworks Scale Up, Scale Out South-South transferability Shared Burden, Shared Rewards Resource Alignment and Optimization

16 MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR AGENT ENGAGEMENT TO BUILD CLIMATE RESILIENCY IN ISLANDS Production and Manufacturing Clusters Industrial Park Clusters Value Chains and Networks in Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation Business and Industry Associations

17 THANK YOU ISLANDS AN INCUBATORS OF CLIMATE RESILIENT DEVELOPMENT Kalim Shah, Ph.D. School of Public & Environmental Affairs Indiana University NW, United States ; Phone: (219) ; (219)

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