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2006 SEDU 10th Anniversary Conference
October 16th - 17th

“Rising to the Challenge of Sustainable Development in Small & Island Developing States: Retrospect and Prospect”
&
The Inauguration of the John Cropper Memorial Lecture

DRAFT Agenda    DAY 1  |  DAY 2

DAY 1 - October 16th 2006
  Opening Session
    8.00 am Registration
    9.00 am

Opening Remarks :
PVC B Tewarie (to be confirmed)
Dr. H Ghany (to be confirmed)
PVC W Hunte (to be confirmed)
    9.20 am John Cropper Memorial Lecture
Dennis Pantin presentation MS Power Point Document
       
    10.00am coffee Break
       
  Session 1 Sustainable Development Policy Practice
    10.30am Vasantha Chase, Keith Nichols
Challenges to SD: an OECS perspective presentation MS Power Point Document
      Tighe Geoghegan, Valerie Isaac-St. Hill and Yves Renard
Improving the Coherence and Relevance of the regional environmental policy framework: Lessons learned from the case of the St. George’s Declaration - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document
      Cletus Springer
An Assessment of the Functionality of Multilateral Environmental Agreements in a Caribbean Context: The Case of the UNCCD Convention - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document
       
    11.30am Discussion
       
    12 noon Lunch
       
  Session 2 Sustainable Tourism Development in Caribbean SIDS
    1.00pm Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
Tourism and the Sustainability of Jamaica’s Natural Resource Base - abstract Adobe PDF Document
     

Paulette Bynoe
Community-based Ecotourism: Whither a Sustainable Livelihood Alternative - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document
     

Petal Thomas
“ Greening” the Caribbean’s All-Inclusive Hotels and Cruise Tourism:Barbados, St. Lucia & Tobago - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document
      Giselle Westfield
Valuing the Tourism Benefits of the Speyside Coral Reef - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation
       
      Discussion
       
    3.00pm Coffee Break
       
  Session 3 Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in Caribbean Sustainable Development Policy
    3.20pm Jason Alexander
Disaster Risk Management in Caribbean Economies – The Case for appropriate Risk Transfer Instruments for disaster risk reduction - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document
      Marlene Attzs
Mainstreaming gender into regional Disaster Risk Management and adaptation to climate change - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document
      Vyjanti Beharry
HIV/AIDS: Hurdles to a Sustainable Response in the Caribbean presentation MS Power Point Document

 

DAY 2 - October 17th 2006
  Session 4 Title: Caribbean Sea, Fisheries and Marine Environment 
    9.00am Ronald James & Sonja Teelucksingh
The role of fisheries in the sustainable development in small island economies: a case study of Tobago - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document
     

Joth Singh and Kelvin Alie
Whales: More Valuable Alive than Dead? A question for Caribbean decision makers? -
abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document
      CARSEA – John Agard and Angela Cropper - presentation MS Power Point Document
       
    10.30am  Coffee Break
  Session 5 Industry and Sustainable Development
    10.45am  Weslynne Ashton
Sustaining Industry on Small Islands by Harnessing Opportunities for Collaborative Resource Management - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document

 

 

 

Girjanauth Boodraj
Globalisation and sustainable agricultural development in small island states: A study of Jamaican small-scale banana exporters - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document

Oral B. Rainford & Rohan A. Richards
Sustainable Development and the Industrial Minerals Sector: Integrating the Principles of Sustainable Development within Jamaica’s Industrial Minerals Sector - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document

Emily Dick-Forde
Banking for Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Caribbean Study -
abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document

Paloma Mohammed
The question of voice: Some preliminary findings on research on communications and development from Guyana and Trinidad - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document

12noon

Discussion

12.30pm

Lunch

Session 6 Measurement/ Indicators of Sustainable Development

1.30pm

Luisito Bertinelli & Eric Strobl
Sustainable Economic Development Across the World and Time: A Stochastic Dominance Approach -
abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document

Malini Maharaj
Ecological Footprint of International Trade - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document

Marlene Andrews
Measuring Social Capital - abstract Adobe PDF Document presentation MS Power Point Document

2.30pm

Coffee Break

Session 7 Sustainable Development Collaboration

3.00pm

Justin Ram
Report of May Workshop - presentation MS Power Point Document

Joan Grant Cummings

Panel:
Sarah Mc Intosh
CANARI

Angela Cropper

Cletus Springer

 

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