Hurricane Mitch in Central America
Author | : Brookside Publishers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1999-05-01 |
Genre | : Disaster relief |
ISBN | : 9780967062730 |
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Author | : Brookside Publishers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1999-05-01 |
Genre | : Disaster relief |
ISBN | : 9780967062730 |
Author | : Marisa O. Ensor |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816549303 |
Around the world disaster vulnerability is on the rise. The incidence and intensity of disasters have increased in recent decades with lives being shattered and resources being destroyed across broad geographic regions each year. As it swept across the Honduran landscape, the exceptional size, power and duration of Hurricane Mitch abruptly and brutally altered the already diminished economic, social, and environmental conditions of the population. In the aftermath of the disaster a group of seven socio-environmental scientists set out to investigate the root causes of the heightened vulnerability that characterized pre-Mitch Honduras, the impact of the catastrophe on the local society, and the subsequent recovery efforts. Edited by Marisa O. Ensor, this volume presents the findings of their investigation. The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch offers a comprehensive analysis of the immediate and long-term consequences of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras. Based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork and environmental assessments, this volume illustrates the importance of adopting an approach to disaster research and practice that places “natural” trigger events within their political, cultural, and socio-economic contexts. The contributors make a compelling case against post-disaster recovery efforts that limit themselves to alleviating the symptoms, rather than confronting the root causes of the vulnerability that prefigured the disaster.
Author | : Jim Carrier |
Publisher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2000-11-20 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0071374558 |
"Utterly compulsive and unputdownable--the most exciting, authentic, and humanly moving of all the recent Storm books. Brilliantly paced and perfectly balanced. . . . Carrier is a marvelously trustworthy narrator. . . . A terrific book."--Jonathan Raban, author of Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings and Bad Land: An American Romance "A wonderful story. An extremely well-written account of the events as I knew them. I commend Jim Carrier for a magnificent job."--Jerry D. Jarrell, Director, National Hurricane Center In October 1998, the majestic schooner Fantome came face-to-face with one of the most savage storms in Atlantic history. The last days of the Fantome are reconstructed in vivid and heartbreaking detail through Jim Carrier's extensive research and hundreds of personal interviews. What emerges is a story of courage, hubris, the agony of command, the weight of lives versus wealth, and the advances of science versus the terrible power and unpredictability of nature.
Author | : Sarah Bradshaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Disaster relief |
ISBN | : |
An excellent analysis of the effects of Hurricane Mitch and the strategies to confront the disaster, with focus on the impact of reconstruction programs on gender as well as how the storm reflected decision-making and gender roles in regional homes.
Author | : Bruce Molnia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Hurricane Mitch, 1998 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin Mowforth |
Publisher | : CIIR |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781852872328 |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Hurricane Mitch, 1998 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Melinda Hofstetter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Civil-military relations |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Isis Rowan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Hurricane Mitch, 1998 |
ISBN | : |