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4th retreat: Cochin India, October 4-7, 2016

DAY 1, October 4, 2016: TASK 2, 3, 4

Cocagne Grande-DigueUniversité de Moncton

Task 2, 3, 4Day 1, Tuesday October 4, 2016

The aim of this template is to facilitate the development of a common understanding while retaining the benefits of site diversity and of approach diversity.Please answer the questions/fill in the blanks using all the space you need.This is a 20' presentation with 10' of exchange.


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Contents

• Team composition table• Task 2• Central results form your site/team.

• Task 3• Central results form your site/team.

• Task 4• Central results form your site/team.


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Team composition

• Omer Chouinard, Gregory Kennedy and Céline Surette• Post Doc: Anne Fauré • Students: Ariane Juneau-Godin, Amélie Montour, Jolène Santerre• Main community partner: Groupe de développement durable du pays

de Cocagne (Serge Larochelle, Kathy Gildart, Suzanne Léger)• Academic collaborators: Julie Forgues, Alain Patoine• Other non-academic partners: South Eastern Anglers Association,

Department of Fisheries and Ocean, Kent Regional Planning Commission


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Task 4 Memories of past changes, oral history and adaptation: community-level analogs to climate change and their use as a mean to reduce coastal vulnerabilities

What is your most important result/ observation with regard to lessons from past adaptation processes?• Past adaptation in CGD occurred through the agency of households trying to meet

their subsistence needs at a time when family agriculture was no longer sufficient. For example, salary work at home in natural resource industries or abroad in factories in urban centres.• Agency (choices) of households in CGD limited by a number of factors including:

minority status and limited education, influence of political and religious elites, natural resources controlled by outsiders, competition for land-use, intensifying climate/environment change on coast.• Most households adopted similar strategies (e.g. combo of agriculture and wage

work) and this helped with the development of a particularly strong collective identity and tradition of cooperation that is culturally-informed (Acadian).


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Do they qualify as analogs of current adaptation needs/ practices, and how (or if no, why not)?• Continuity

• Individual needs are central • Collective action as useful approach, culturally-based (Acadian), but not all• Net outmigration, especially young people• Corporate control of natural resources• Competition for land-use

• Change • Environmental change is intensifying (erosion, fishery)• Integration into larger area, more heterogeneous population (competing goals, cultural

differences, market forces)• Tourism/Recreation


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• How did you come about these results/ observations?• Archival research using quantitative and qualitative methods (e.g. censuses,

parish registers, newspapers, business records, government records)• Local research with archives of community partners (e.g. GDDPC)

• Are there other results/ observations that you wish to share?• Dispossession of First Nations• Importance of women’s work• Lack of sustainable development (e.g. forestry)• People actively looking to the past (e.g. traditional agriculture)


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Task 2 contextualizing science locally: foresight for coastal climate change adaptation

• What is your most important result/ observation with regard to the use of knowledge (all knowledges) in your site?• Community groups generate lots of data (mostly through monitoring

programs) and understand their ecosystems very well, however, they lack the resources and human capacity to analyze these data or do research• There is a need to work together to answer specific research questions to better

understand how environmental changes (including climate change) impacts local ecosystems• There is a need to systemize sampling protocols and/or find novel ways to

analyse these data


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• How did you come about these results/ observations?• Did a survey of available natural science data in Cocagne (scientific and gray

litterature, consultation of available database from partners)• Climatic data - series of data going back to 1890, with gaps.• Water quality data – main physico-chemical parameters (O2, pH, temp, cond); series up to

1990, with gaps and different sampling methods (CHALLENGE!)• Fish biodiversity surveys – uninterrupted series since 2003• Other data were sporadic and based on site-specific studies

• Co-construction with GDDPC and South Eastern Anglers Association• The lack of temporal analysis was identify as a need of the community group• After preliminary analysis, we realized we would need a longer time-span analysis• So two complimentary research projects were designed


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Fish biodiversity changes

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Historical environmental changes

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• Did you observe situation where the local context somehow influenced directly the way climate science (in a broad sense) may be deploying itself locally?• Organisation and coordination at the local level have generated loads of data,

different approaches to understand their ecosystem – consequence: very pro-active community effort of land to sea changes• Differing between Climate Change effects and Land-use effects is complex, as

they are interelated• Emergence of Transition town and slow food shows attempts at

transformational adaptation


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• Task 3 Coastal institutions facing climatic change: adaptation as a multi-factorial attribution process

• What is your most important result/ observation with regard to the interplay between climate change and other changes leading to a need for adaptation?• Communities are moving to develop policies at different speed depending on the

democratic desire• The three (Cocagne, Grande-Digue and Dundas (Notre-Dame) are concern about land

use planning and development• Two (Cocagne and Grande-Digue) are working in parallel on rural planning with

Kent Regional Planning Commission (KRPC) to manage change and limit user conflicts

• Dundas (Notre-Dame) wants to have rural planning to reduce the stress of urban sprawl, especially along the river

• In Cocagne, inhabitants voted for the municipalization in part because they wanted more regulation of land-use


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• Task 3 Coastal institutions facing climatic change: adaptation as a multi-factorial attribution process

• How did (and which) institution play a role in adaptation, to climate change, to all change)• Rural community of Cocagne with KRPC are developing a framework to better adapt

• How did you come about these results/ observations?• After community-based research and education of the communities by the GGDPC• Participatory observation and interviews to understand links between rural planning

and climate change adaptation

• Are there other results/ observations that you wish to share?• Collaboration on food security to produce local food for local schools and local

markets – observation and participation of activities with Slow Food (ConviviumCocagne) and Transition Cocagne.


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Outputs of all 3 tasks

Articles (en préparation)3 masters thesis that may result in articles

“History and Biogeochemistry: An Integrated Approach to Environmental Change in Cocagne,”

“Agency, Adaptation, Environmental Change, and the Legacy of Colonialism: A Historical Synthesis of Vulnerable Coastal Communities via a Transdisciplinary Framework” (collective article Task 4 ARTISTICC)


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Outputs of all 3 tasksConference Papers• Gregory Kennedy et Amélie Montour, “Shifting Patterns in Response to Environmental

Change and Industrialization: Landscape and the Adaptation of the Household Economy in Cocagne, 1871-1921,” Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Mount Allison University, Sackville, 2016.

• Chouinard, O., Surette, C., Kennedy, G. Juneau-Godin, A., Fauré, A., (2016). Case Studies for Climate Adaptation in Acadian Coast Line in Atlantic Canada. Communication at : Coastal Adaptations :Capacities, Communities,Contexts. X1V World Congress of Rural Sociology 2016, Ryerson University, Toronto

• Surette, C. Chouinard, O. Kennedy, G. (2016). How can transdisciplinary methods help us better understand historical community adaptations to environmental change in order to develop culturally specific and participative coastal adaptation policiestoday? Communication at MSEAS 2016! Understanding marine socio-ecologicalsystems: including the human dimension in Integrated Ecosystem Assessments, UBO, Brest, France


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Outputs of all 3 tasksConference Papers• Gregory Kennedy, Omer Chouinard, Céline Surette, “Building Resilience to

Environmental Change in New Brunswick Coastal Communities through Historical and Interdisciplinary Research” Canadian Historical Association, Ottawa, 2015• Chouinard, O., Surette, C., Kennedy, G., (2014). An Eco-bio-social Approach to

Coastal Zone for a better governance adaptation in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. Deltas in Times of Climate Change II: International Conference opportunities for people, science, cities and business, Rotterdam, Netherlands


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Outputs of all 3 tasksPublic Lectures• Chouinard, O., Kennedy, G., Surette, C. Fauré, A. (2016). How can

transdisciplinary methods help us better understand historical communityadaptations to environmental change in coastal zones in order to act locally? Communication présentée au Comité spécial sur les changements climatiques dans la province du N.-B. Sackville, 30 août 2016• Gregory Kennedy et Amélie Montour, « L’histoire environnementale du

pays de Cocagne et le projet de recherche ARTISTICC, » dans la communauté de Cocagne, 2015• Omer Chouinard, Gregory Kennedy, et Céline Surette, « Les défis

d'adaptation aux changements climatiques des communautés côtières de Cocagne et Grande-Digue, » au Conseil municipal de Cocagne, 2014.

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