Several Caribbean countries experience high levels of water scarcity and
water stress. This poses an enormous development challenge for the region
given growing demand, inadequate infrastructure and low investment in
the water sector. A vast literature examines the impact of the management
of global water resources on climate change, poverty and sustainable
development. However, few studies have considered the impact of water
scarcity on growth and sustainable development in the Caribbean. This

This article contends that knowledge brokerage should be recognized as a
key function of regional universities as Caribbean states seek to advance
the 2030 development agenda. As Caribbean universities evolve, public
engagement and linkage and exchange mechanisms that support the
developmental and entrepreneurial missions of modern universities need
to be strengthened. By detailing the case of a University of the West Indies-
Trinidad and Tobago RDI Fund project to demonstrate how the societal

Countries of the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) have committed to ocean
governance, also, to sustainable development. The two pursuits are
interlinked, and must be pursued in tandem, and in an integrated way, to
achieve these goals. Often they are not, and fragmented ocean governance
and disconnect between ocean governance and sustainable development
results. The WCR needs an ocean policy to integrate its ocean governance
into an overarching vision of sustainable development to enhance its