Objectives of this report. The overall aim of this report is to set out a transferable method for generating data on the economic costs of climate change impacts in cities. City-wide costs were generated for London, Antwerp and Bilbao, the three core case study cities of the RAMSES project. These costs, together with damage costs generated from WP1, WP3 and WP6 of the RAMSES project, and have been uploaded onto the RAMSES Common Platform database which will be linked to the European Clearinghouse database, ClimateAdapt (xxxx://xxxxxxx-xxxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xx/). In this report, we develop an economic cost methodology through which the costs of various climate change hazards, acting through different channels, can be evaluated. We focus on the effect a climate hazard has on inputs of the production activity – for example, by decreasing capital or labour levels, or reducing their productivity – to work out the overall effect to urban production. By focusing on one hazard and one channel through which it affects costs at a time, the model remains tractable, which facilitates the interpretation of the results. This is vital for identifying the most effective climate change adaptation strategies. One of the overarching goals of RAMSES is to deliver quantified evidence of the impacts of climate change with a focus on cities, as well as of the costs and benefits of a wide range of adaptation measures. This deliverable constitutes a step forward in providing a clearer methodology for quantifying these costs.
Objectives of this report. This report presents the findings of a Rapid Fisheries Sector Assessment (RFSA) on the fisheries in the northeast part of Haiti in the 3BNP. This park is one of four seascapes (Jamaica; the Dominican Republic; Haiti; and the Grenadines-Grenada, St. Xxxxxxx and the Grenadines) being evaluated by The Caribbean Marine Biodiversity Program (CMBP). The program, which is funded by USAID for $US 10m over five years, is addressing major problems in these seascapes. Its goals are to diversify livelihoods and change other activities to protect biodiversity and develop sustainable fisheries. Among the four seascapes, Haiti faces the most challenges due to its high degree of poverty and lack of support. This report seeks to diagnose and analyze important problems, weaknesses, and opportunities to create a sustainable fisheries sector in the northeast part of Haiti. The assessment is based on meetings with stakeholders, focus groups, and fishermen, as well as questionnaires that involved double checking of responses carried out over a month in seven fishing communities within the 3BNP. The total population of these communities is estimated at 25,000. No census on these small towns was available, but an estimated 1,000 fishermen are primary users of the resource, in addition to 5,000–6,000 secondary users. These estimates account for about 25% of the total population in the seven fishing communities: Bord de Mer Limonade, Madras, Caracol, Jacquezyl, Phaeton, Fort Liberté, and Derac. The project is clearly a stakeholder-driven effort, built on extensive participatory efforts, often under challenging conditions. Due to the lack of statistics and the difficulties in obtaining accurate information, the findings of this assessment are somewhat irregular. They underline the need for serious data collection over time among the fishing communities. A concerted data collection effort should include a census of fishermen, gear, and vessels; organizations of fishers (associations or cooperatives); catch effort; seasonal trends; marketing; information that could be used to develop an efficient value chain; identification of major species; spatial overlap between fishers and spawning and nursery areas; and potentially length and maturity data of catch. Unfortunately, there are no catch data to answer many of the most pressing questions. Boundaries for fishing by community are not defined. However, the fishermen are starting to understand that their open-access fishery is contribut...
