Workshop: Enhancing Resilience of Coastal Caribbean Communities: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for a Changing Climate

该奖项将支持一个研讨会，以促进来自美国，古巴和墨西哥的研究人员之间在沿海依赖方面的北美合作。 讲习班将在古巴哈瓦那举行，重点是确定可用于应对加勒比区域环境变化对当地影响的比较战略。一个由生态学家、水文学家、海洋学家、经济学家、社会科学家、工程师、建筑师和利益相关者组成的跨学科小组将讨论加勒比社区沿海复原力挑战的潜在解决方案，重点是南佛罗里达、古巴和墨西哥。研讨会的讨论情况将在一份关于沿海社区实现抗灾能力的最佳做法和战略的出版物中进行总结。此外，讲习班还将促成建立一个加勒比区域沿海复原力研究人员国际网络。通过将博士后学者和早期职业研究人员作为促进者和参与者参加研讨会，他们将有机会获得专业发展。 此外，将加强研究这些重要社会重大挑战问题的科学家队伍。研讨会将邀请美国、古巴和墨西哥的科学家参加，从而建立一个广泛的研究人员小组，共同制定适应和减缓战略，以实现沿海地区的复原力，该小组将讨论关键的人力和有形基础设施对即将发生的气候变化和预计的海平面上升的脆弱性的知识状况，以及需要填补的研究空白，以增强社区的复原力。该小组还将重点关注迈阿密、哈瓦那和坎昆等主要沿海城市的城市生态，重点是不同国家提高复原力的比较战略。与会者将制定一个综合框架，其中包括自然过程，工程/建筑，经济，社会过程和网络基础设施。通过使用这种方法，参与者旨在开发潜在的变革性新视角，以应对不断变化的气候变化情景下沿海社区的挑战。具体而言，讲习班将力求：（1）更好地了解易受气候变化和海平面上升影响的加勒比沿海地区所面临的挑战;（2）制定一个研究议程，以提高这些加勒比社区的复原力和适应能力;（3）建立一个协调一致的专家框架，准备为脆弱社区制定和传播此类解决方案。

This award will support a workshop to promote North American collaborations in coastal reliance between researchers from the United States, Cuba, and Mexico. The workshop will take place in Havana, Cuba, and will focus on identifying comparative strategies that can be deployed to deal with local impacts of environmental change in the Caribbean region will take place in Havana, Cuba. An interdisciplinary group of ecologists, hydrologists, oceanographers, economists, social scientists, engineers, architects, and stakeholders will discuss potential solutions to coastal resilience challenges in Caribbean communities, with a focus on South Florida, Cuba, and Mexico. The discussions of the workshop will be summarized in a publication on shared best practices and strategies for achieving resilience across coastal communities. In addition, the workshop will result in the creation of an international network of researchers working on coastal resilience across the Caribbean region. By including postdoctoral scholars and early-career researchers in the workshop as both facilitators and participants, they will have the opportunity for professional development. Furthermore, the pipeline of scientists working on these important societal grand challenge issues will be strengthened. The workshop will engage American, Cuban and Mexican scientists, thus creating a broadly diverse group of researchers working together to develop adaptation and mitigation strategies for achieving coastal resilience.The group will discuss the state of knowledge on vulnerability of critical human and physical infrastructure to impending climate changes and projected sea level rise, as well as the gaps in research that need to be filled to enhance community resilience. The group will also focus on the urban ecology of the major coastal cities of Miami, Havana, and Cancun, with an emphasis on comparative strategies for increasing resilience in different countries. The participants will develop an integrative framework that will include natural processes, engineering/architecture, economy, social processes, and cyberinfrastructure. By using this approach, the participants aim to develop potentially transformative new perspectives to address coastal community challenges under changing climate change scenarios. Specifically, the workshop will seek to develop: 1) an improved understanding of the challenges facing Caribbean coastal regions vulnerable to climate change and sea level rise, 2) an agenda of research needed to improve the resilience and adaption of these Caribbean communities, and 3) a coordinated framework of experts poised to develop and disseminate such solutions to vulnerable communities.