University of Delaware/University of the West Indies
Country:
Jamaica
Award Date:
2000
Award Amount:
$97,940.00
Cost Share:
$25,990.00
Other Partners:
National Environmental Planning Agency (Jamaica); University of Massachusetts Boston; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The partners collaborated to promote the dissemination of best practices in the fields of coastal ecosystem management and tourism management and to improve integrated coastal management (ICM) capacity in the Caribbean and the United States. Among the most significant accomplishments of the collaboration was the development of an 11-module course on ICM in the Caribbean region. The module topics include basic ICM concepts and practices, geographic information systems, conflict resolution, social analysis, and case studies specific to the Caribbean. The course is now offered under an M.S. program at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and is geared toward graduate students, government officials, NGOs, academics, and researchers in the Caribbean. In 2003, the partners implemented an intensive two-week course on ICM at the University of Miami involving participants from the United States, Jamaica, and Brazil. The country of Belize unexpectedly benefited from the collaboration when one of the UWI graduate students who had participated in the partnership project was hired by the Belize government as the Director of its Coastal Zone Management Institute.