Donald David Robadue, Jr Business Address Business Name: Coastal Resources Center,Graduate School of Oceanography University of Rhode Island Business Address: South Ferry Road, Narragansett, Rhode Island, 02882 Position: Associate Coastal Resources Manager Telephone:401.874.6128 Fax: 401.789.4670 E-Mail: robadue@gso.uri.edu Home Address Home Address: 722 South Road, Wakefield, Rhode Island, 02879-7622 Telephone:401.789.1328 E-Mail: don@robadue.com Permanent Resident of: South Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA Education 2000 Advanced Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1976 University of Rhode Island, Curriculum in Community Planning and Area Development. Master of Community Planning, (environmental planning). 1974 University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Magna cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa. Summary of professional career I am presently a senior environmental planner (Associate Coastal Resources Manager) at the Coastal Resources Center, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, created in 1971 and where I have worked since I was a graduate student in 1975. CRC is a pioneering technical assistance and planning organization that developed one of the first state coastal resources management programs in the United States (1977), and led the U.S. Agency for International Development's successful effort to create and strengthen coastal resource management programs for Ecuador, Sri Lanka and Thailand beginning in 1985. Since 1995 CRC has maintained a portfolio of coastal management program design, policy formulation and evaluation initiatives in the regions of East Africa (centered in Tanzania), Latin America (focused on the Caribbean and Gulf of California coasts of Mexico) and Asia (with an anchor program in Indonesia). CRC is increasing the amount of attention it gives to global communication and capacity-building as nearly all coastal nations are now attempting to put some policy framework into place and carry out pilot projects in conservation, special area planning and state or national policy. CRC continues its practice in Rhode Island working with regional councils of government on growth management, and with state government in advancing the watershed approach to planning and decision making. My role in our organization has evolved considerably from its earliest days as the only planner among a core team of marine scientists helping to formulate innovative, participatory environmental planning techniques which have become part of global repertoire of coastal management. In the 1970s my focus was on the key state issues of energy facility siting policy and urban waterfront renewal at a time when the state faced the proposal to build twin nuclear power plants adjacent to its south shore coastal lagoons and was targetted by the petroleum exploration industry as its service base for the exploration phase of offshore oil on Georges Bank. In the early 1980s, I collaborated with Dr. Tim Hennessey to explore the US experience in managing estuaries, before the advent of the National Estuary Program, and applied these lessons to Rhode Island's first special area management plan, developed for Providence Harbor. When the University of Rhode Island won the opportunity to establish a cooperative agreement with USAID in 1985, CRC entered into a phase of rapid expansion of "field programs" in three countries in three culturally and geographically distinct regions. My role as senior planner and advisor expanded to co- manage along with an Ecuadorian colleague a $3 million USAID funded effort over eight years which leveraged a $15 million low-interest loan as one of the first coastal management projects of the Inter-American Development Bank. This experience was extensively documented in a collaborative assessment report by project leaders: Eight Years in Ecuador-The Road to Integrated Coastal Management, which I edited and translated. During the 1990s, the Ecuador case was frequently cited for its contribution to demonstrating the feasibility of participatory planning in an emerging democracy in Latin America. As our portfolio and partners expanded in the 1990s, it became essential to find ways to build capacity both within country programs and to share our expanded repertoire with a global audience as well as across the project teams working in different regions. We began a series of short (two-week) intensive courses led by 'practitioner-trainers' such as myself. I served as a lead trainer for courses held in Spanish for Latin America participants held in Ecuador, then in various sites in Central America, most recently in El Salvador for members of . country teams surrounding the Gulf of Fonseca. Beginning in 1991, CRC established a four week, biennial intensive "Summer Institute" for 25 participants from all regions based at the University of Rhode Island. I was co-lead trainer for the 2000 program, and will play the same role in the 2002 course. In addition I presently serve as lead staff providing technical assistance to USAID Mexico Conservation of Critical Ecosystems in Mexico in Quintana Roo and Gulf of California, as well as working with the University of South Pacific in Fiji to carry out a national workshop on coastal resources management in April, 2002. Selected publications: Robadue, D. 2000. Selected publications on coastal management. A collection of publicly available literature in English on Compact Disc. First edition prepared for the 2000 Summer Institute on Coastal Management, May, 2000. (Also, a collection of publicly available literature in Spanish on Compact Disc. First edition, June 1999). Narragansett, R.I.: Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island. Kerr, M. and D. Robadue. 1999. The watershed approach for Rhode Island. Draft proposal prepared for the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. Robadue, D. 1999. Charting a course through the stormy world of coastal program implementation. Intercoast Network Newsletter 33, Focus on implementation and compliance. Theme advisor. Narragansett R.I., Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island. Robadue, D. 1997. Balancing the needs of coastal communities: shrimp mariculture industry and mangrove conservation, Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Connect. UNESCO International Science, Technology, and Environmental Education Newsletter, Vol. XXII, No. 3/4. Paris, France. Robadue, D. editor and translator. 1995. Eight Years in Ecuador: The Road to Integrated Coastal Management. Narragansett, RI: Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island Twilley, R. , A. Bodero and D. Robadue. 1993. Mangrove ecosystem biodiversity and conservation in Ecuador. In J. Cohen, C. Potter, and D. Janczewski eds., The potential of biodiversity: Case studies of genetic resource conservation and development. Waldorf, Maryland: American Association for the Advancement of Science Books. Imperial, M., T. Hennessey and D. Robadue. 1993. The evolution of adaptive management for estuarine ecosystems the National Estuary Program and its precursors. Ocean and Coastal Management. Volume 20, pp. 147-180. Imperial, M., D. Robadue, and T. Hennessey. 1992. An evolutionary perspective on the development and assessment of the National Estuary Program. Coastal Management. Volume 20, pp.311-341. Perez, E. and D. Robadue. 1989. Institutional aspects of shrimp mariculture in Ecuador. In S. Olsen and L. Arriaga, eds. A sustainable shrimp mariculture industry for Ecuador. Coastal Resources Center, Technical Report E-6.