{"id":447,"date":"2025-06-19T09:58:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/?p=447"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:04:08","slug":"bridging-local-wisdom-and-innovation-for-coastal-communities-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/2025\/06\/19\/bridging-local-wisdom-and-innovation-for-coastal-communities-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridging Local Wisdom and Innovation for Coastal Communities Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"447\" class=\"elementor elementor-447\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7feb029 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7feb029\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1147ad1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1147ad1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/files\/2025\/06\/UNDP-AIS-side-event-768x376.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-448\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/files\/2025\/06\/UNDP-AIS-side-event-768x376.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/files\/2025\/06\/UNDP-AIS-side-event-300x147.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/files\/2025\/06\/UNDP-AIS-side-event-800x391.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/files\/2025\/06\/UNDP-AIS-side-event.jpeg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79d20bd e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"79d20bd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-85abc43 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"85abc43\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The UN Development Programme Archipelagic and Island States (AIS) Forum led side-event \u2018Bridging Local Wisdom and Innovation for Coastal Communities Resilience\u2019 organised on 10 June 2025 explored how bridging local and traditional knowledge with scientific and technological innovation can strengthen climate resilience in coastal and island communities\u2014while advancing sustainable ocean-based livelihoods and inclusive development.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Researchers and practitioners working on adaptation strategies in Fiji, Vanuatu, Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Indonesia and UK shared findings on traditional knowledge systems, multidimensional adaptation tools, and community-driven resilience frameworks. By fostering scientific cooperation and knowledge exchange, this dialogue event aimed to advance inclusive, locally grounded, and scalable solutions that reinforce the science-policy interface for coastal communities\u2019 resilience\u2014a key priority of SDG 14 and the UNOC 2025 agenda.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Allanson Cruickshank, University of Malta, shared findings and experience from his research in Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to increase communities\u2019 resilience against disasters. \u00a0Dr Cruickshank highlighted the importance of combining community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) and community-based adaptation (CBA) in response to both volcanic hazards and climate change in small island developing states (SIDS).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Prof. Shaista Shameem, Vice Chancellor, the University of Fiji stressed the role of traditional and local knowledge in climate change mitigation and adaptation in coastal villages of Fiji and Vanuatu. Prof Shameem recommended for traditional knowledge to be institutionalized in national and regional climate related-policies and legislation.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr Celine Germond-Duret and Dr Senia Febrica presentation on \u2018Blue Economy and Climate Resilience\u2019 noted that acceleration in blue economy activities has often brought injustices to ocean-dependent economies such as dispossession, displacement, pollution and waste (<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/9781118786352.wbieg2166\">Germond-Duret et al., 2023<\/a>; <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/geoj.12483\">Germond-Duret et al., 2022<\/a>). Based on this knowledge, Dr Germond-Duret and Dr Febrica urged stakeholders to place communities at the heart of climate-resilient blue economy pathways including in co-designing trajectories, strategies, choices and actions.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Some of the key messages highlighted by delegates at the side-event include the importance to:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">combine community-based disaster risk reduction and community-based adaptation in response to climate hazards and disasters in small island developing states.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">formally recognized and institutionalized traditional knowledge in national and regional climate related-policies and legislation.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">enact law to safeguard traditional practices and knowledge<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">integrate traditional knowledge with modern science.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">establish community-science partnerships and research to document and validate traditional knowledge alongside modern techniques<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">recognize the negative impacts of blue economy projects on coastal communities<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">place communities at the heart of climate-resilient blue economy pathways including in co-designing trajectories, strategies, choices and actions.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">understand that while climate change is a global phenomenon, its impacts are felt locally by communities<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">conduct local risks\/vulnerabilities assessment to understand communities\u2019 perception of risks posed by climate change; risks adaptation measures that have been implemented; local knowledge (e.g. related to weather, ocean currents and winds patterns); coordination gap between various entities; and types of information and capacity building initiatives needed.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The event was co-organised by the UNDP AIS in collaboration with Lancaster University and the University of Fiji.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Development Programme Archipelagic and Island States (AIS) Forum led side-event \u2018Bridging Local Wisdom and Innovation for Coastal Communities Resilience\u2019 organised on 10 June 2025 explored how bridging local and traditional knowledge with scientific and technological innovation can strengthen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/2025\/06\/19\/bridging-local-wisdom-and-innovation-for-coastal-communities-resilience\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,28,26,27,13,25],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-blogs","tag-climate-change","tag-resilience","tag-sdg-14","tag-traditional-knowledge","tag-un-ocean-conference-2025","tag-unoc-3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/blue-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}