Flooding from rising sea levels endangers people, infrastructure, and agriculture across Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nations, including Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and St Lucia.
Flooding from rising sea levels endangers people, infrastructure, and agriculture across Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nations, including Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and St Lucia. Scientists from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) were among an international delegation visiting Guyana last week, at the start of a four-year project to reduce these flooding impacts on coastal communities in the region.
Taking a collaborative approach, the project will explore the relationships between land, freshwater and coastal systems and flood-affected communities. It will support improved policy and management, and provide decision support tools to help reduce social, economic, and environmental damages from climate change.
Among the outputs will be a flood resilience framework, including a co-developed risk hazard model. This will boost flood prediction capabilities, and provide new insights into impacts on local livelihoods and food security, ultimately strengthening the ability of communities, agencies, and research institutions across CARICOM to respond to future change.
Read more at: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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