Dominica has partnered with a full-scale engineering, building, and administration agency to cut back the coastal vulnerability of its residents.
Smith Warner Worldwide (SWI) will spearheaded this venture for coastal communities known as the Coastal Hazard Vulnerability Undertaking (CHVP). SWI is an organization headquartered in Jamaica and has satellite tv for pc workplaces in Canada, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
With CHVP, the intention is to “enhance entry to knowledge,” which can finally strengthen “decision-making autonomy of communities, and key sectors of Dominica who’re reliant on coastal assets.”
“With its ecosystem-based method, the venture tries to keep away from combating towards the ocean by in search of extra sustainable options that work with the ocean,” Dominica News Online wrote.
Two of Dominica’s major aims in endeavor CHVP embrace “a complete coastal erosion and vulnerability evaluation, and a resilience publication.”
“We at Smith Warner did an evaluation a few years in the past in 2007 so positively now in 2023 expertise is much more superior. We’ve got drones, a lot better satellite tv for pc imagery, we’re additionally going to do seashore profiles evaluation, and shoreline evaluation,” mentioned Gabrielle Abraham, a GIS specialist and Undertaking Supervisor at SWI.
Not like the same old assessments the place satellite tv for pc imagery is the principle supply of knowledge, the CHVP will make use of individuals who can really are available do the surveys, and do the evaluation on the bottom in Dominica. The federal government hopes the venture improves the coastal vulnerability knowledge in Dominica.
This isn’t the primary time Dominica has contracted the companies of SWI. In 2007, SWI founder David Smith was a part of the UN Fee that performed the evaluation on damages following Hurricane Dean’s. And only in the near past, in 2021, a non-public Dominican citizen contacted SWI to boost the seashore space in entrance of Anichi Seashore Improvement.
Dominica is probably the most disaster-vulnerable international locations on Earth, experiencing disastrous hurricanes and typhoons all through the years. Since Hurricane Maria in 2017, the island has been engaged on turning into the world’s first climate-resilient nation.
The federal government has partnered with worldwide entities such because the World Financial institution and Worldwide Financial Fund, to develop its sustainable infrastructure. Dominica has additionally contracted Dubai-based creating firm MMC Development Ltd. to construct residential items, healthcare services, and the island’s worldwide airport.
