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

加勒比的“小岛屿发展中国家”处于我们不断变化的环境的最前线，对其作出反应和应付其后果的战略现在是极为重要的。2017年飓风造成的破坏清楚地表明，这些国家在应对经常性高强度灾害方面面临挑战；加勒比地区平均每年因飓风遭受8.35亿美元的损失。除此之外，还有“日常”风险带来的挑战，例如斜坡稳定性、水资源和雨季，这些风险会因随后产生的年度支出而影响长期规划。迅速、强劲和包容性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抵御能力。重视重建强大的物质基础设施很重要，但是，当战略具有包容性并明确针对当地文化、社会和物质环境量身定制时，长期效益积累得更快（Hallegatte et al., 2018）。这是联合国可持续发展目标“不让任何一个人掉队”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发现：(1)加勒比地区对危险事件的文化反应包含了关于影响、反应和恢复的强大知识；(2)它们的传播过程提供了一个强大的机制，使社区参与到自己的准备和恢复中来。(3)历史和最近的过去包含了重要的知识，加深了对人们如何以及为什么将自己置于高风险（问题）领域的理解，但揭示了国家和国际反应采取行动抵消危险事件影响的重要战略或时刻（解决方案）。这项“后续基金”提案的目的是分享这些发现，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用于帮助制定有效的战略，既可以直接用于应对未来水文气象风险的国家，同时从地球物理灾害（蒙特塞拉特）中恢复过来，也可以通过负责在危险事件期间和之后提供支持和建议的机构间接用于英国。我们将与蒙特塞拉特红十字会和蒙特塞拉特国民信托基金会合作，为蒙特塞拉特的社区创建一个新的展览，以获得广泛的当地观点。然而，我们希望进一步推动这种参与：我们的研究结果不仅为在当地分享减少灾害风险信息提供了一种更具包容性的方法，而且还包含了转型和应对的积极经验，可以为国际层面的政策和灾害响应提供信息。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，目标是那些负责制定加勒比地区英语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（Overseas Development Institute）合作，与英国红十字会建立新的伙伴关系，并听取国际发展部紧急反应小组（Emergency Response Team）的建议。我们将共同努力，了解如何创造有效的接触。最后，我们将把这两个元素结合在一起，使用一个网站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.