'Disaster passed'. Resilient Caribbean futures via shared knowledge of recent disasters.

加勒比的“小岛屿发展中国家”(小岛屿发展中国家)处于我们不断变化的环境的最前线，应对和应对其后果的战略现在至关重要。2017年飓风造成的破坏鲜明地表明了这些国家在应对反复发生的高强度灾害方面面临的挑战；加勒比地区平均每年遭受8.35亿美元的飓风损失。此外，“日常”风险所带来的挑战，例如斜坡稳固、水资源和雨季等，都会影响较长远的规划，而其后每年的开支亦会影响长远规划。迅速、强劲和包容的复苏减少了对生计和福祉的影响，并提高了对未来事件的复原力。重视重建强大的有形基础设施很重要，但是，如果战略具有包容性并明显适应当地的文化、社会和物质环境，长期惠益积累得更快(Hregatte等人，2018年)。这是联合国可持续发展目标的“不让任何人掉队”战略的基础，并要求减少灾害风险战略高度重视《仙台减少灾害风险框架(2015-2030年)》所规定的广泛知识。我们最近的研究包括三个基本结论：(1)加勒比地区对危险事件的文化反应包含关于影响、反应和恢复的强大知识；(2)这些事件的传播过程提供了一个强有力的机制，将社区纳入其自身的备灾和恢复工作。(3)历史和最近的历史包含重要的知识，这些知识加深了对人们如何以及为什么将自己置于高风险(问题)地区的理解，但揭示了国家和国际应对行动以抵消危险事件(解决方案)影响的重要战略或时刻。这项“后续基金”建议的目的是分享这些调查结果，以突出文化和历史知识在加勒比地区减少灾害风险方面的重要性。我们希望将我们的研究付诸实施，以帮助形成有效的战略，既直接在一个国家直接应对未来的水文气象风险，同时从地球物理灾难中恢复(蒙特塞拉特)，也间接在英国通过负责在危险事件发生期间和之后提供支持和建议的机构间接地在蒙特塞拉特建立一个新的展览，与MVO合作，让蒙特塞拉特红十字会和蒙特塞拉特国家信托基金参与进来，获得当地广泛的观点。然而，我们希望进一步推动这一接触：我们的调查结果不仅为在当地分享减少灾害风险信息制定了一种更具包容性的方法，而且还包含了积极的转型和应对经验，可以为国际一级的政策和灾害应对提供参考。因此，我们还想为英国创建一个展览，展示我们在多米尼加、圣文森特和蒙特塞拉特的发现，旨在展示那些负责制定加勒比地区讲英语的小岛屿发展中国家的反应和政策的人。为此，我们正在与海外发展研究所合作，与英国红十字会建立新的合作伙伴关系，并响应国际发展部应急小组的建议。我们将共同努力，了解如何创造有效的接触。最后，我们将利用一个网站将这两个要素结合在一起，作为不同社区之间的数字工具，作为进一步加强这些群体之间对话的手段，并记录和继续分享和学习的过程，包括我们自己的。

The 'Small Island Developing States' (SIDS) of the Caribbean are at the frontline of our changing environment and strategies to respond and cope with their consequences are now of paramount importance. The damage from the hurricanes of 2017 demonstrate starkly the challenge such countries face in dealing with recurrent high intensity hazards; on average the Caribbean incurs $835 million of losses from hurricanes per annum. This is in addition to the challenges posed by 'everyday' risks e.g. slope stability, water resources and the rainy season where longer term planning is blighted by the annualised expenditure subsequently incurred. Swift, strong, and inclusive recovery reduces impact on livelihoods and well-being and improves resilience towards future events. Attention to re-building strong physical infrastructure is important, but, long term benefits accumulate faster when strategies are inclusive and clearly tailored to the local cultural, social and physical environment (Hallegatte et al., 2018). This underpins the 'leave no one behind' strategy of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and demands disaster risk reduction strategies that place a strong emphasis on a wide range of knowledges as set out by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030). Our recent research includes three fundamental findings: (1) cultural responses to hazardous events in the Caribbean contain powerful knowledge about impacts, response and recovery and (2) the process of their transmission provides a strong mechanism to include communities in their own preparedness and recovery. (3) the historical as well as the recent past contains important knowledge that deepens understanding of how and why people place themselves in areas of high risk (problems) but reveals important strategies or moments when national and international response acted to counteract the impacts of hazardous events (solutions). The aim of this 'Follow-on-Fund' proposal is to share these findings to highlight the importance of cultural and historical knowledge in disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean. We want to put our research to work to help shape effective strategies, both directly in a country where they are responding to future hydro-meteorological risks while recovering from a geophysical disaster (Montserrat) and indirectly in the United Kingdom via agencies responsible for providing support and advice during and after hazardous events.We will create a new exhibit for communities on Montserrat, working throughout with MVO, involving the Montserrat Red Cross and Montserrat National Trust to access a wide cross-section of local views. However, we want to push this engagement further: our findings do not just map out a means for a more inclusive approach to sharing disaster risk reduction information locally, but contain positive experiences of transformation and coping that could inform policy and disaster response at an international level. Thus we also want to create an exhibit for the UK, demonstrating our findings across Dominica, St. Vincent and Montserrat aimed at those responsible for shaping response and policy in the English-speaking SIDS in the Caribbean. To do this we are working with the Overseas Development Institute, creating new partnerships with the British Red Cross, and responding to advice from the Emergency Response Team from the Department for International Development. Collectively, we will work together to understand how to create effective engagement. Finally, we will draw both elements together using a website as a digital tool to bridge between the different communities, as a means to further enhance conversations between these groups and to document and continue the process of sharing and learning, including our own.