WEDNESDAY, 28 JULY 2010 - AFTERNOON

13:00 - 14:30 PAPER SESSIONS WORKSHOP CHARRETTE

Room: McDougall 243 Room: Duffy 135 Room: McDougall 242 Room: McDougall 329 Room: Kelley 211
Session theme: COASTAL Session theme: Session theme: Topic: SCOPING A MARINE AND Topic: VOICES FOR CHANGE:
ISSUES VULNERABILITY AND COASTAL ENGINEERING COASTAL RIGHTS REGISTRY FOR ACHIEVING THE WELL MANAGED
Chair: Michael Phillips, ADAPTATION TO AND TECHNOLOGY CANADA: NEEDS AND PRIORITIES COAST
Swansea Metropolitan CLIMATE CHANGE Chair: Mike Pearson, Convenors: Jean Gagnon, Natural Moderator: Colleen Mercer Clarke
University Chair: Marc Ouellette, GeoNet Technologies Inc Resources Canada and Darren Williams,
Fisheries and Oceans Fisheries and Oceans Canada A charrette is a problem-oriented
multi-participant forum that promotes
Canada
A Marine and Coastal Registry (Marine collaborative efforts to resolve specific
13:05 - 13:25 Coverage of coastal zone TBA Modelling the effects of
Cadastre) Task Team has been issues in planning and design. In this
issues in undergraduate reduced sea ice on
established to prepare a business case session conference participants will
physical geography storm waves, currents
for securing a long-term commitment focus on finding practical and effective
textbooks, Terence Day, and sediment transport
for investment in the development of a solutions to the barriers that
Okanagan College on the north shore of
national marine and coastal rights challenge coastal management in
Prince Edward Island,
management regime for Canada. The Canada.
Gavin Manson,
purpose of the Workshop is to present
University of Guelph and Charrette Plenary: A brief outline will
the work of the Task Team to date and
Geological Survey of be provided on the structure and
to receive feedback on the need for and
Canada, Natural expectations of the charrette process.
the expected outcomes of Marine
Resources Canada Participants will identify the issues to
Cadastre.
13:25 - 13:45 Remote sensing of The relationship Mesoscale measure- be addressed by teams working in
suspended particulate between coastal erosion ment and modelling of Note: Workshop continues until 17:00. break-out sessions.
matter concentrations in and sandy beach coastal foredune
the upper Bay of Fundy, invertebrate community dynamics, Greenwich Break-out session topics may include:
• defining the coasts in Canada
Gary Bugden, Fisheries structure on the north Dunes, Prince Edward
• overcoming jurisdictional conflicts
and Oceans Canada shore of Prince Edward Island, Robin Davidson-
• improving economic evaluation
Island, Mitchell Arnott, University of
• bridging the gulf between science
MacMillan, University of Guelph
Prince Edward Island and management
• using the Internet to advance
knowledge and action
13:45 - 14:05 Particle dynamics of Le littoral acadien du Application of
• sharing existing planning tools
integrated multi-trophic sud du Golfe du St- ecosystem-based
• building coastal provincial and
aquaculture sites, Laurent : vulnérabilité management principles
territorial coastal policy
Lindsay Brager, Dalhousie et résilience, Omer to design erosion
• empowering local action, and
University Chouinard, Université de mitigation alternatives
• improving coastal science.
Moncton for Point Pelee National
Park in Ontario, Peter Charrette Plenary: Teams will
Zuzek, W.F. Baird & regroup to present their proposed
Associates Coastal solutions, milestones and individual
Engineers Ltd and organizational assignments.
Note: The charrette continues until
14:05 - 14:25 The role of sufficiency Living by our wits: Geocontainment
17:00.
economy philosophy in linking climate change technology in coastal

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 Coverage of coastal zone
issues in undergraduate
physical geography textbooks

Terence Day, Ph.D.,

Okanagan College, Kelowna, B.C.
 Introductory Physical Geography
• One or two semester course
• 5-10,000 students per year across Canada (a
guestimate)
• Students like it: memorable experience,
especially if fieldwork involved
• 38% of Canadians live within 20km of coast
• Randall Angus: “The ones you forget to invite
will slow down the process”
 Errors
• “Tides are complex daily oscillations in sea
level, ranging worldwide from barely
noticeable to several metres.” C&B, 524
 Errors
• “Along the coasts of British Columbia,
northern California, Oregon and Washington,
high energy conditions usually prohibit sand
from being deposited on the beach, and larger
particles make up the beach fabric.” (deB, 603)
 Errors
• “At this discontinuity the continental slope
begins and plunges steeply downwards.” deB,
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Coastal and marine physical geography

Good coverage Less good coverage

• Beach dynamics (except issues • Sand dune formation
of timescales) • Impacts of sea level rise
• Hurricanes: history and range • Impacts of climate change on
of effects coastal and marine
• Coastal climate biodiversity
• Waves • Methods of data collection
• Impacts of human activities on and analysis
beaches (although issue of • Coastal and marine pollution
blame)
 Coastal sand dune formation:
What’s missing?
• Description (size, shape, patch metrics)
• Rates of change
• Climate and seasonal effects (especially wind and
precipitation)
• Study techniques, (e.g. remote sensing, vegetation quadrants)
• Influence of sea/lake level (isostatic and eutstatic)
• Variability of sediment inputs (e.g tidal effects)
• Why do they form in some areas and not in others?
• What are they made of? (e.g. clay dunes in S. California)
• Controls on vegetation (e.g. slope, aspect, precipitation, soil
moisture content, fences, raking, introductions)
• Mechanisms of disturbance
 Impacts of sea level rise:
What’s missing?
• Hurricane frequency, intensity and precipitation totals,
and their interactions with storm surges
• Direct impacts on biodiversity, e.g. turtle nesting
• The assessment of inundation extent, e.g. LiDAR,
algorithms for DEMs
• Assessment of accuracy and uncertainty in DEM data
• Effects on water table, lake levels, coastal wetlands
etc., and consequent effects on biogeography
• History of sea level change and recent trends
• Relative impacts of thermal expansion and ice melting
• Effects of past sea level change
Impacts of climate change on coastal and
marine biodiversity: What’s missing?
• Temperature impacts on primary productivity
• Ecosystem impacts
• Effects of offshore shoals and mangrove loss
on sedimentation patterns
• Management of scientific uncertainty in
decision-making
 Methods of data collection and
analysis: What’s missing?
• Historical map / remote sensing image
interpretation
• Terrestrial LiDAR
• Marine environmental data: temperature, pH,
water depth, salinity (field versus remote sensing)
• Sediment traps
• Quadrant analysis
• Pollutant Release Inventories
• Etc…
 Coastal and marine pollution: What’s
missing?
• Thresholds for biodiversity impacts
• Land-based sources: especially nutrient
loading and “dead zones”
• Relationship of coastal pollution with SST
• Impacts
 Less relevant material
• Seawater chemistry
• Origin of tides: simplify (and correct) the
explanations
 Modelling The Effects of Reduced
Sea Ice on Storm Waves, Currents
and Sediment Transport on the
North Shore of Prince Edward
Island, Canada

Gavin Manson 1,2

1Ph.DCandidate, University of Guelph, Guelph ON

2Coastal Geoscientist, Geological Survey of

Canada, Dartmouth, NS

CZC 2010
Charlottetown
July 25-29, 2009
Outline

• Study area/Model domain

• Sea ice and waves

• Modelling approach

• Verification

• Re-evaluating sea ice in the model

• Conclusions

• Acknowledgements
 Study Area
• Study area is the Brackley Bight section of the North Shore of Prince Edward Island
• Sandy shoreline, most sand resides in onshore dunes, but sand is present offshore in
sheets on the upper shoreface
• Subject to storm winds from various directions, northeasterlies are probably most effective
in transporting sand (northwesterlies are second)
• Sea ice is present in varying concentrations from January to April, reducing the time
waves are effective in driving currents sand-transporting currents
Results from CGCM2 for the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence
• Suggest accelerating winter wind speeds and decreasing sea ice into 2050, then
stabilization of mean wind speeds and absence of sea ice
• Inferred increase in wave energy over the next 40 years and then stationarity(?)
• One research objective is to understand the implications of reduced sea ice for
sediment transport and coastal change
• To do that, one needs to quantify effects of sea ice on waves and wave-driven
currents

Manson, Forbes and Parkes. Wave Climatology. Supporting Document 4 in Coastal Impacts of Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise on Prince
Edward Island. GSC Open File 4261.
 Effect of sea ice on waves
• Reduced wave
formation

• As formed waves travel

through ice:
– Attenuation of wave
height

– Alteration of wave
direction
• Initial refraction to
become perpendicular
to ice edge
• Later direction
becomes isotropic due
to scattering

– Effects on period?

Manson, Forbes and Parkes. Wave Climatology. Supporting Document 4 in Coastal Impacts of Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise on Prince
Edward Island. GSC Open File 4261.
Sea ice in Brackley Bight – March 8, 2001
Mike21 Wave and Hydrodynamic Module Inputs and Interactions

Sea Ice
Sea Ice
Wave Breaking
Domain
(DEM, Boundaries, Bed Resistance
Bottom Friction Flexible Mesh)
Surface Friction
Wave
Generation
Spectral Wave Hydrodynamic Hindcast Winds
Module Module
Hindcast Winds Predicted Water
and Waves Levels

Wave Field Wave Radiation Water Levels Flow Field

Stresses
Model Verification – no ice
Model run with temporally varying sea ice
• Ice is treated as land i.e.
wind stress is zero over
some threshold of ice
concentration

• Threshold concentration
set at 50%

• Here spatially constant

concentration was raised
from 4/10 to 5/10 at
23:00 30/11/1999 and
lowered back to 4/10 at
23:00 02/12/1999

• Clear over-sensitivity to a
small change in ice
concentration
Alternative Approach Modified Wave
Radiation
Stresses
Wave Breaking
Domain
Domain
Bed Resistance
Bottom Friction

Surface Friction
Wave
Generation
Spectral Wave Hydrodynamic Hindcast Winds
Module Module
Hindcast Winds Predicted Water
and Waves Levels

Wave Field Wave Radiation Water Levels Flow Field

Stresses

Modified Wave
Sea Ice Module Radiation
Stresses
Sea Ice module

• Theory from Wadhams (1986)

E x  E0 exp( i x )
i  pi / di ln1  ri 
• E0 is the un-attenuated wave energy, Ex is wave energy at distance x in ice pack

• Simple case:
– Spatially and temporally constant 5/10 ice, 100 m floes
– x = distance to model boundary in direction from which waves are coming
– p = 0.5, d = 100

• r = 0.1 (i.e. 10%)

– A reasonable value from Greenland field experiments in the early 1980s

• Lambda is therefore constant = -5.268

Algorithm/Work Flow

• For each element at each time step

– Calculate E0

gh s L
2
E0 
8
– Calculate fetch
– Calculate Ex and Ex/E0
– Modify wave radiation stresses e.g. Sxx_ice = Sxx*Ex/E0

• Invert Ex for hs at distance x

• Run Hydrodynamic Module with modified wave radiation stresses

 Results

• Wave height is reduced

during storm

• Effect is greatest for

highest waves

• Effect is also greatest

for longer periods

• Counter to theory and

observation

• However, wave height

is attenuated at a point
in the pack ice

• No data to verify this

Conclusions and Next Steps
• Sea ice is an important factor that must be
included when considering future rates of
sediment transport in Brackley Bight

• Current strategies in Mike21 are overly

sensitive to small changes in concentration

• An alternative approach shows

– Effect is greatest for highest waves
– Effect is also greatest for longer periods
• Counter to theory and observation

• However, wave height is attenuated at a point

within the pack ice

Next Steps
• Examine frequency-dependency relationships
• Careful consideration of assumptions
• Run selected events under different ice
conditions
– Wave, Hydrodynamic and Sand Transport
Modules
Thanks to:

• Committee Members:
Robin Davidson-Arnott (U of Guelph)
Jeff Ollerhead (Mount Allison)
Bernard Bauer (UBC Kelowna)

• NRCan:
funding from the ESS Program on Enhancing Resilience to
Climate Change and the Professional Enhancement Program

• University of Guelph, Department of Geography: funding

through two scholarships, 2006-2007
Mitchell MacMillan, Veronique Dufour and Pedro Quijon , University of Prince Edward Island
 Reference study
 No known publications on PEI sandy beach
invertebrate communities
▪ Erosion rates expected to increase in future

 No known comparison of sandy beach

invertebrate communities along an erosion
gradient

 Sandy beaches – marine meets terrestrial systems

 Coastal erosion - natural process
 Increased air & sea temperatures
 Increased sea levels, storm
severity/occurrence...
 Increased coastal erosion
 Shoreline sediment constantly in motion
 Wind, waves, tides, currents, drainage

 Sediment budget
 Accretion or Erosion
 Physically controlled

Reflective Dissipative

 Implications:
 Changes in grain size and slope
 Sandy beaches of different geomorphologic
type exhibit different intertidal
characteristics, and consequently exhibit
different invertebrate communities
 Transects
 Invertebrates – core samples
 Density, Species Richness
 Sediment samples
 Erosion rate – Parks Canada
 Slope
 1.2 A A B

1
Mean Erosion Rate

0.8
(m/year)

0.6

0.4

0.2

0
Dune Till Sandstone
Coast Type
 3.5 A A B

3
(individuals/transect)
Mean Log Density

2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
Dune Till Sandstone
Coast Type
 4 A B A

3.5
Mean Species Richness
(# species/transect)

3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
Dune Till Sandstone
Coast Type
 3000

2500
(individuals/transect)
Mean density

2000
y = 822.19x1.9834
1500 R² = 0.5869

1000

500

0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2
Mean erosion rate (m/year)
 4.5
4 y = 2.1459x + 1.072
Mean species richness
(# species/ transect)

3.5 R² = 0.7274
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2
Mean erosion rate (m/year)
 700
y = 0.2308x2 - 11.232x + 254.55
600 R² = 0.0485
(individuals/transect)

500
Mean Density

400
300
200
100
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
1/Slope
 Erosion rates:
 Till & Sand dunes > Sandstone

 Densities:
 Till & Sand Dunes > Sandstone

 Species Richness:
 Till > Dune & Sandstone
 Seaweed

Stress: 0.05

Sandstone

Dune & Till

 Two new potential indices for predicting
sandy beach communities
 Coast type & Erosion rate

 No substantial relationship between slope

and density

 Mechanism driving community structure?

 Sediment grain size ( analysis currently underway)
 Implications for conservation
 Piscine and avian wildlife

 Link between physical factors, invertebrates and

vertebrate predators
 Donna Giberson
 Darren Bardati
 Megan Tesch
 Christina Pater
 Bradley MacMillan
 Jessica Willis
 Marianne Parent
 Parks Canada
 Environment Canada
 Implications for Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA)

Coastal Zone Canada 2010, July 25-29, Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Lindsay Brager
Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University
CIMTAN
Canadian Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture Network

 NSERC Strategic Research Network

 26 research scientists
 8 universities
 6 provinces
 6 federal laboratories (Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
 1 provincial laboratory (New Brunswick Research and Productivity Council)

 Industrial Partners –

 Cooke Aquaculture Inc. (East coast)

 Marine Harvest Canada Ltd. (West coast)
Kyuquot Seafoods Ltd. (West coast)
 CIMTAN
INTEGRATED MULTI-TROPHIC AQUACULTURE

Combines the cultivation of:

Fed aquaculture species Extractive aquaculture

• E.g. finfish species
• E.g. seaweeds (dissolved
nutrients)
• E.g. suspension feeders (organic
particulates)

IDEA:
ACTIVELY RECAPTURE MATERIALS FOR USE IN THE
PRODUCTION OF COMMERCIALLY VALUABLE EXTRACTIVE
CROPS
CIMTAN DOMAINS
Network addresses the following areas of IMTA:

DOMAIN • Environmental system

performance and species
1 interactions

DOMAIN • System design and

2 engineering

DOMAIN • Economic analysis and

3 social implications
 Research Objectives
GOAL:
Better understanding of particulate waste plume dynamics
at finfish aquaculture sites.
QUESTIONS:
1. Does a particulate waste plume exist at the finfish
aquaculture study sites?
2. What are the spatial and temporal dynamics of the
plume?
3. How do the dynamics differ between study sites?
Study Sites
St. Andrew’s Bay, New Brunswick
MF-377
St. Andrew’s Bay, N.B.
 Open-water site

 Highly energetic

 Atlantic salmon
Study Sites
Kyuquot Sound, British Columbia

British Columbia
CANADA

PACIFIC SEA-LAB
Pacific SEA-Lab
Kyuquot Sound, B.C.
 Sheltered site

 Low energy

 Black cod
Methods
The ACROBAT
 Rapid Towed

High-
Undulating
resolution

Particle
Survey Sensor
Vehicle
The Equipment
CTD

Fluorometer

Transmissometer
Back to THE QUESTIONS…
Does a particulate waste plume exist at the finfish aquaculture study sites?

 Detect using TRANSMISSOMETER

 Currently working on calibrations

Predict concentrations (mg/L) of total particulate matter (TPM)

based on the transmission of light.

Light Source Receiver

Does a particulate waste plume exist at the finfish aquaculture study sites?

 Predict compositional variability of plume using

TRANSMISSOMETER and FLUOROMETER
 Currently working on calibrations

Predict concentrations (μ/L) of chlorophyll based on the amount of

fluorescence (fCHL).

fCHL / TPM
 Back to THE QUESTIONS…
What are the spatial and temporal dynamics of the plume?

SPATIAL DYNAMICS:

• Near- and far-field surveys

• More intensive vertical profiles

TEMPORAL DYNAMICS:

• Survey at different stages of tidal cycle

• Stationary time-series
Back to THE QUESTIONS…
How do the dynamics differ between study sites?

 Perform all of the

above at both sites

 Deploy current
meters for
hydrographic
measurements
 The Acrobat Data

Data is logged every half-second

and is used to create high-
resolution 3-D maps of the plume.

What can we map?

•TPM distributions
• Chl/TPM ratio distributions
“SURF”-ING
Other Methods

 Sediment Traps

 Dye Dispersion Studies

 Settling Column Video Analysis

Putting it all together…

Plume detection, and understanding its ‘behaviour’, is

important for the system design of IMTA

Project is integral in assessing the potential for IMTA

IMTA has the ability to strengthen Canada’s position as a

responsible aquaculture production nation
Acknowledgements

The Jon Grant Lab (Dalhousie University)

Peter Cranford (BIO-DFO)

CIMTAN

Coastal Zone Canada Association

 Littoral acadien du sud du Golfe du St.-Laurent:
vulnérabilité et résilience
Question de démocratie…
Des océans en santé par des communautés
côtières fortes
Omer CHOUINARD, Gilles MARTIN, Serge Jolicoeur
Université de Moncton
Steve PLANTE, Université du Québec à Rimouski
et les municipalités et DSL, RNNB, ENVNB, Ass. de dvpt.
durable de Bathurst, Citoyens de Pte Carron.
chouino@umoncton.ca; steve_plante@uqar.qc.ca
Tel : 506-858-4761 418-723-1986 (2277)

Zones côtières Canada, UPEI

Vulnérabilité et adaptation au Changement climatique
28 juillet 2010
 Plan de la présentation

1. Aires de recherche

2. Objectifs de la recherche

3. Démarche et méthodologie

4. Principaux résultats

5. Éléments de synthèse

centre de recherche sur le

développement territorial
UQAC – UQAR – UQAT – UQO
 Zone d’étude en
Base-Côte-Nord

Zone d’étude Baie Zone d’étude

des Chaleurs en péninsule
acadienne

Zone d’étude
dans le Sud
du Golfe
Le travail entrepris vise à accompagner ces communautés dans la réalisation
d’un plan préliminaire en adaptation

centre de recherche sur le

développement territorial
UQAC – UQAR – UQAT – UQO
 Objectifs de la recherche

À l’aide d’une recherche-action participative:

1) sensibiliser les acteurs du secteur public, du secteur privé
et de la société civile à l’importance des impacts du
changement climatique (émission de carbone);
2) encourager les communautés côtières à prendre en main
leur avenir par une planification des activités pour en
minimiser les impacts (Plan d’adaptation);
3) faciliter et coordonner l'élaboration d'un consensus autour
d'un arrêté municipal et de ou de priorités d’actions visant
une uniformisation des pratiques de protection côtière
(murs anti-érosion)
 Démarche de gestion intégrée
Processus de prise de décision qui repose:
- sur des interactions entre des acteurs;
- un cadre légal;
- des traditions et des normes sociales.
Processus de prise de décision qui :
- aborde des questions env., écono. et culturelles;
- cherche co-construire une vision commune
pour une co-production des actions à faire;
- doit être adaptatif et proactif (fonction des
acteurs et des territoires).
centre de recherche sur le
développement territorial
UQAC – UQAR – UQAT – UQO
 Démarche d’engagement

Il s’agit d’une recherche à caractère ascendant

qui découle des besoins et des aspirations des
communautés (ancrage territorial).
Un processus d’engagement:
– identification des perceptions, préoccupations et des
connaissances locales;
– identification des mesures en adaptation utilisées,
développer des activités de sensibilisation et
d’information;
– accompagnement dans la prise de décision lors de
groupes de discussion.

centre de recherche sur le

développement territorial
UQAC – UQAR – UQAT – UQO
 Méthodologie
•Étape 1: Au moyen d’entrevues semi-dirigées et de groupes de
discussion (2003-2008), identification des:
– perceptions et connaissances locales;
– approches en adaptation utilisées;
– difficultés et obstacles à l’adaptation.

•Étape 2: Sensibilisation et information du public cible (2003-2009):

– au sujet des impacts du CC;
– au sujet des prédictions sur la montée du niveau marin;
– au sujet des stratégies en adaptation;
– au sujet des impacts soc. et env. possibles liés à certaines approches en
adaptation.

•Étape 3: Groupes de discussion pour la planification (validation -

contre validation – activité de « mapping »);

•Étape 4: Entrevues ou échanges formels pour évaluer le processus

(Bathurst à venir).
centre de recherche sur le
développement territorial
UQAC – UQAR – UQAT – UQO
centre de recherche sur le
développement territorial
UQAC – UQAR – UQAT – UQO
Résultats
Identification des perceptions et connaissances locales:

-Témoins de nombreux événements et des transformation du climat;

- Changement des cycles de migration de plusieurs espèces
(poissons, crustacés, insectes);
- Grande vulnérabilité du territoire (érosion, inondation, eau potable,
réduction de la couverture de glace);
- Attachement fort au milieu côtier et craintes;
- Préoccupés par les initiatives peu ou pas planifiés d'adaptation
(enrochement, perte d'accès, esthétique...);
- Préoccupés de la perte de valeur potentielle de leurs propriétés
résultant de l'attention médiatique à leur cas.
Résultats
Mesures initiales en adaptation dans les communautés

- Tentatives individuelles et collectives choisies par imitation

ou par essai erreur (mur, pont de glace);
- Peu perçoivent le retrait ou l’abandon comme une option
d’adaptation;
- Approches d’accommodement (relever les maisons) ou
plus douce dans certaines localités;
- Incertitudes au sujet de la nécessité ou non de construire
des ouvrages de protection.

« Quelle que soit la méthode utilisée, ses effets sont limités dans le
temps et il faut à terme reconstruire les ouvrages. »
« … il faut faire attention aux charlatans… »

centre de recherche sur le

développement territorial
UQAC – UQAR – UQAT – UQO
Résultats
Principales contraintes (barrières) à l’adaptation

- Manque de ressources (humaine et financière);

- Manque de connaissance et d’information;
- Inquiet mais ne se sentent pas toujours concernés
(inclusion);
- Manque d’orientation claire de la part des autorités ou
gouvernements et peu enclin à l’écoute;
- Absence d’outils appropriés pour gérer le développement de
manière à éviter les problèmes à long terme;
- Complexité, inégalité et inefficacité dans l’application des
procédures réglementaires lorsque présentes.
Résultats
Transformation des perceptions envers la gouvernance

- Sentiment d’urgence et volonté d’agir à l’échelle locale pour mieux

préparer l’avenir;
- Fait ressortir les incertitudes face à certaines mesures;
- Besoin urgent d’information et de ressources HUNAINES pour aider les
communautés dans leurs efforts;
- Absence de gouvernance locale en milieu rural (coordination entre
fonctionnaires et gouvernements,distance et langue);
- Coordination entre les communautés, les instances locales, provinciales
et fédérales de même que la participation d’universités et autres secteurs
est essentielle (gouvernance);
- Dans certaines zones du sud-est, la bande tampon de 30 mètres devra
être augmentée en fonction des prévisions d’augmentation du niveau
marin.

centre de recherche sur le

développement territorial
UQAC – UQAR – UQAT – UQO
Résultats
Avantages du transfert de connaissances
-Reconnaitre le besoin de bâtir la capacité des communautés
envers l’adaptation (retrait-protection-accomodement);
- Permettre aux habitants de discerner les éléments d’ordre
scientifique et de connaissance locale ;
- Intégrer davantage les impacts sociaux et les outils de
gestion du risque liés aux effets du CC;
- Élaborer des plans d'adaptation construits en tenant compte
des valeurs des acteurs locaux et ce, dans une perspective
d'appropriation d'outils d'adaptation face aux risques.
- Outils de solution de problèmes et de prise de décision.
Résultats
Perspectives envers le processus d’engagement
- Attitude proactive permettrait de contrer les risques à la santé
et la sécurité tout en minimisant les coûts associés aux
impacts;
- Accompagner les communautés dans les étapes de la prise
de décision, cette co-construction permet une appropriation
par la délibération des données scientifiques/locales par les
acteurs locaux;
- Appropriation collective du projet et sa transformation au
cours du processus: coproduction d’outils de sensibilisation, de
rapport et d’un énoncé de règlement.
- Importance de la masse critique : politique municipale
pour construire et contribuer à la résilience
centre de recherche sur le
développement territorial
UQAC – UQAR – UQAT – UQO
Éléments de synthèse:

1) Le processus d’accompagnement dans la planification pour

l’adaptation requière un approche adaptative de gestion intégrée;
2) Les groupes de travail de chacune des communautés doivent valider
auprès de leur population leur vision;
3) Les démarches pour solliciter les appuis des différents paliers de
gouvernement sont, dans certains cas, déjà en cours (approche
proactive);
4) Les participants sont d’avis que le processus leur a permis
d’approfondir leur vision (diminution des craintes, etc.);
5) La démarche permet de donner une crédibilité aux efforts déjà
entrepris par les communautés;
6) Le succès de l’engagement dépend du lien de confiance entre les
divers acteurs et peu de leur vulnérabilité biophysique.
7) Deux plans d’action (anglais et francais) un règlement et une brochure
(booklet) ont été développé avec les acteurs (stakeholders)
Merci pour votre attention

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