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Resilience  Thinking  and  the  Future  of  Watersheds  

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Today’s  Speakers  Ryan  Plummer  Director,  Environmental  Sustainability  Research  Centre  Senior  Research  Fellow,  Stockholm  Resilience  Centre  

Simon  Courtenay  ScienFfic  Director,  Canadian  Water  Network  

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RESILIENCE THINKING & THE FUTURE OF WATERSHEDS

Ryan Plummer a b, Julia Baird a, Katrina Krievins a , Michele-Lee Moore c, Oliver Brandes d

a Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University b Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University

c Water Innovation and Global Governance Lab, University of Victoria d POLIS Project on Ecological Governance

A PARTNER WITH

Conventional Approach to Natural Resource Management

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Command-and-control

Optimization EFFICIENCY

Eliminating  redundancies    

Maximum sustainable yield Stability

Predictability

Linear relationships

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A new way of understanding the world…

“It is clear that the environmental problems we face will not be solved using the failed

approaches of the past. But they can be solved if we embrace resilience thinking”

(Walker & Salt, 2006)

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Kristianstads Vattenrike

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Leadership, networks, and bridging organizations

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Social-Ecological Inventory in the St. John River Basin, NB

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Activities for River Health

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Land management planning

Biological monitoring

Water monitoring

Water treatment/management

Riparian and land management activities

Fish passage and population activities

Research and other information gathering

Governance (advisory, council membership)

Advocacy

Outreach and education

Tourism and recreation

Searching/applying for funding

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ENGOs Watershed organizations Municipal government Provincial government Federal government US agencies Industry Private consultants First Nations

Collaboration Network

Legend Government (all levels) Watershed organizations First Nations ENGOs & regional environmental organizations Local environmental associations Consultants & industry

Can Adaptive Capacity in Watershed Groups be Enhanced through Resilience

Practice?

Cowichan River Basin, BC

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Study Context

Hammond River Basin, NB

Aimed to introduce participants to resilience thinking and illustrate how it could be applied in

practice

Workshop Design

Learning Indicators Type Indicators of learning effects NB BC

Cognitive learning

Acquisition of new knowledge 10-30% improvement

10-30% improvement

Restructuring of existing knowledge Some evidence Some evidence

Normative learning

Changes in norms Moderately Somewhat to moderately

Change in values Somewhat to moderately

Somewhat to moderately

Change in paradigms Moderately Somewhat to moderately

Convergence of group opinion Some evidence None

Relational learning

Improved understanding of mindsets of others

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Building of relationships Moderately to a great deal Moderately

Enhanced trust and cooperation Moderately Moderately

Learning typology from Baird et al. 2014

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CLIMATE CHANGE

WATER POLLUTION

Increased frequency &

severity

Rising sea levels

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Flooding New regulations���

Public-private partnership with insurance���

Inedible shellfish

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Diminishing fish returns

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Lack of biodiversity

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Riparian ownership RIVER CONFLICT

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Too many users for multiple competing

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Resilience Thinking

NAVIGATING GOVERNANCE

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There is no ‘solution’ or blueprint

Substantial shifts are required, these will NOT be simple or

quick

Learn from experiences & experiments with innovative

governance strategies

Build capacity for resilience, adaptation & transformation

Support & Acknowledgements

*All references and photo captions from this presentation available upon request.

Canadian Watershed Research Consortium

Resilience Thinking & the Future of Watersheds Creating a Blue Dialogue Webinar Series POLIS Project on Ecological Governance

Water Sustainability Project

26 June 2014 Simon Courtenay Scientific Director, CWN

CWN is a national organization that:

•  Brings together key decision-makers to determine shared water management needs across municipalities, industry and governments from local to national.

•  connects these groups with leading knowledge in a way that addresses the practical realities of water management, and

•  ensures that research is actionable and leads to solutions

CWN’s Consortium Approach

•  Has included: •  Pathogens-in-Groundwater Research Consortium •  Canadian Municipal Water Consortium •  Secure Source Waters Consortium •  Canadian Watershed Research Consortium

Duinker and Greig 2006 Environ. Manage. 37(2)

“Despite a huge amount of talk and a flurry of developmental activity associated with CEA concepts, it has not lived up to its glowing promise of helping to achieve sustainability of diverse valued ecosystem components”

Lorne Greig

Lorne Greig Kelly Munkittrick

Canadian Watershed Research Consortium (2010 - 2015)

•  develop 5-6 regional monitoring frameworks and partnerships, across Canada, at the watershed level in support of CEA

•  Provide 3 years of seed money each partnership can match for research

•  legacy project: partnerships and monitoring programs are expected to continue on beyond CWN funding

Saint John Harbour

SJH Pilot: 2010

Slave River and Delta 2012

Grand River Population growth, water supply & quality

Muskoka River Water quality

Tobacco Creek

Agri-ecosystem sustainability Red River Valley & Lake Winnipeg Basin

North- umber-

land Strait

Declining fisheries & environmental quality Terrestrial impacts on estuaries

, 4 more sites by competition in 2011

The Pilot Project: Saint John Harbour – Environmental Monitoring

Partnership (SJH-EMP)

•  Formed February 2010 •  Why Saint John Harbour?

- lots of studies done on SJR in CWN phase 1 - projected development as energy hub - management through Canadian Rivers Institute @ UNBSJ

•  Seven meetings by November 2010

The Saint John Harbour Environmental Monitoring

Partnership (SJH-EMP)

•  ACAP Saint John •  Aquila Tours •  Bay Ferries Ltd •  Canadian Coast Guard •  Canaport LNG (Repsol) •  Emera, Brunswick Pipeline •  Emera, Bayside Power •  Enterprise Saint John •  Environment Canada (EC)

Environmental Stewardship Branch

•  Fisheries and Oceans Canada

•  Fundy North Fishermen Association

•  Irving Oil •  JD Irving •  NB Environment •  Port Authority •  Potash Corp N. B. Division •  Saint John Board of Trade •  City of Saint John (Water) •  Saint John Waterfront

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Who?

Harbour Dredging

Need to maintain advertised chart depth Dredge 250,000 cubic meters annually Port’s single largest expense – $4 Million

Reasons for monitoring Timing Site Condition of approval to operate

Regular Fixed

Condition of EIA Regular Fixed

Government monitoring program

Regular Fixed

Protect public concern Regular Fixed

Dredging requirement Regular Variable (within small areas)

Gulfwatch Annual Fixed

Regulatory decisions Occasional Fixed

Spills or releases Occasional Fixed

Research Occasional Variable

Disposal Intermittent Variable (to be fixed)

Why, When and Where are Partners Monitoring?

Fish Water Quality

Benthos Sediment Quality

Reference Site Birds

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Map Existing Monitoring Sites for Each Program

Collect  data  in  the  region  to  meet  these  needs  

Identify and Prioritorize Issues

What to Monitor?

• February 2011 – RFP posted • March 2011 – proposals received, reviewed by international

expert panel for scientific excellence and by SJH-EMP for fit to RFP

• April 2011 – successful proposals announced, projects begin • Fall 2014 – projects end

6 reference sites

If we do all this, where might we be in 5 years?

http://www.healthywaterways.org/EcosystemHealthMonitoringProgram/ ProductsandPublications/AnnualReportCards.aspx

Monitoring and reporting the health of watersheds in

South East Queensland, Australia

Moreton Bay Waterways and Catchments Partnership (Healthy Waterways)

Biological, physical & chemical indicators of water quality at 127 freshwater sites and 248 sites in the estuarine and marine environments

Looking Ahead at the Canadian Watershed Research Consortium:

what is the conversation?

•  Development of new nodes •  Maintaining partnerships and monitoring programs after

CWN funding •  Connecting monitoring to management •  Continuing to interact with other nodes in a national

consortium •  The role of CWN  

scourtenay@cwn-rce.ca www.cwn-rce.ca

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