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 Lagos Bangkok Manila UWO, UW, UT SFU UM Working with START and IRDR IRDR IPO IRDR ICoE 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: oPromotes research & assessment on regional aspects of global change oShares knowledge, expertise and data oBridges between science & society to support decision making oMobilizes financial, institutional and human resources.

Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change (AIACC) Integrated assessment

Example: AIACC Mekong Basin assessment

Second International Conference on Cities at Risk: Building Adaptive Capacities for Managing Climate Change Risks in Asian Coastal Cities (CAR II) Taipei, Taiwan, April 11-13, 2011 Approximately 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

IRDR Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Objective-1:Characterization of hazards, vulnerability and risk Objective 2:Effective decision making in complex and changing risk contexts Objective 3:Reducing risk and curbing losses through knowledge-based actions Cross-Cutting Themes 1.Capacity building 2.Case studies and demonstration projects 3.Assessment, data management and monitoring

IRDR WMO - World Weather Research Program Storms, floods Socio- Economic Research Activities ICSU-WMO-IOC/Unesco - World Climate Research Program Climate extremes ICSU-ISSC-UNU Land-Ocean Interactions in Coastal Zone Forensic 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 3 rd Year – formal assessment - redirection 5 th Year – assessment Exchanges – feedbacks from client workshops... Theme and Project managers

An International Scientific Advisory Board Professor 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, Malaysia Representatives of IDRC and others to be decided.

Focus on Outcomes and Legacy Regular communications Use of “meetings of opportunities”...