Questions for consideration for Community Activities

I N C O R P O R A T I N G C O M M U N I T I E S I N P O L I C Y R E L A T E D D E C I S I O N M A K I N G P R O C E S S E S

Practicing Sustainability

Science at Community Level

Sustainability Science?

 Partnership with stakeholders

 Evidence Based

 Policy relevant

 integrated

 Develops scenarios

 Promotes equitability (Gender, Age, Caste)

 Considering saptio-temporal context (seasons/landscape)

 Exchanging Capacity

 Building on the past Project and program activities

 Promotes Sustainable Development (implementation of sustainability science)

Questions for consideration for Community Activities

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Where does community/Indigenous K sit in the profile of s

 How do we ensure their involvement/benefit as opposed to simply abstracting information?

 How do we sample diverse intra and inter community perspectives in a practical way?

 In what context does the community exist?

government/private sector/NGO/Cultural

 How do learn about the past of communities and develop scenarios of the future?

 What are practical M&E indicator set and their limitations?

Assam, India: Create a Rural Flood Vulnerability Map

Indicators

Community PRA

Gov. Workshop

Weighting

Community within a Systems Approach: GBM Delta

Laws, policies:

Gaps, Conflicts, Implementation efficiencies

Stakeholder engagement:

Key issues, Scenario

development, Iterative learning Governance research

Knowledge integration Scenario development & quantification

Economic analysis & modelling Demographics, economics & poverty

Quantitative household survey (consumption, assets, employment, migration, health, poverty, …)

Statistical Associative model (land use, environment,

socio-economy, census) Population projections Qualitative household survey (ES vs. livelihoods) Bay Bengal:

GCOMS

Climate

HadRM3/PRECIS

Upstream Basin:

INCA

MODFLOW HydroTrend

Delta Plain FVCOM, Delft3D MODFLOW

Agriculture CROPWAT

Coastal Fisheries Size- & Species- based models

Temp, rainfall PE, etc.

Sea level, SLP, SST, winds

Water, sediment, nutrients

water, salinity,

sediment Mangrove

Quantitative Physical/Ecological Models Inland Fisheries Morphology

Land Cover Land Use

Aquaculture

Surge level

Primary productivity, T,S,O₂, currents

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Process Driven Model: A framework for community crop production

- large land owners - small land owners - sharecroppers - landless labourers

- commercial - subsistence

up to 10 crops

- house - livestock - vehicle - other

- financial - env.

hazards

- low interest rate - high interest rate

- 17 age groups

CROPWAT model Dynamic Data

Exchange

Welfare

Associative Model

The likelihood that the union is in the poorest poverty category

Q0

(moderately warmer &

wetter)

Q8

(warmer &

drier)

Q16

(warmer &

wetter)

Less Sustainable Business As Usual More Sustainable

SRES A1B (RCP4.5/6 -8.5)

Development Scenarios