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Displaying 15 of about 50 resultsHow a community recovers after a disaster like Hurricane Ian is often a “chicken and egg” question: Which returns first – businesses or households?
Businesses need employees and customers to be able to function. Households need jobs and the services businesses provide.
As an urban planning researcher who focuses on housing recovery after disasters, I…
COVID-19 is not the first health crisis to affect Canada. Previous emergencies, like the Lac-Mégantic train tragedy in 2013, showed the importance of including the affected communities to promote better adherence to preventive measures and build resilient communities. Our research shows this is largely missing for COVID-19, with high costs on society as…
In September 2017, Puerto Rico was impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria within the span of two weeks. Irma passed Puerto Rico on September 6, 2017 as one of the largest hurricanes to ever form in the Atlantic. Maria followed and made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 as a Category 4 Hurricane, the largest and most damaging storm to strike t…
Two years ago, Hurricane Maria became the third major hurricane to strike the U.S. in less than a month. This powerful storm brought further destruction to the U.S. Virgin Islands before making a crushing impact on Puerto Rico. Survivors saw homes, businesses and crops wiped out, and many were left without power or access to vital services—including saf…
The aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria highlighted vulnerabilities in Puerto Rico's water sector. Hurricane damage spanned Puerto Rico's water infrastructure, including drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and flood control, as well as its water resources. This damage was attributed to multiple causes: the preexisting vulnerability of the water se…
This research focuses on using flood damage reports in conjunction with contour maps, geographical information systems, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data, photographs, and spatial averaging to develop total (high) flood elevation data sets. It is important that a sustainable community better prepare for and design mitigation processes for major f…
An official side event at the NGO Forum of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) 2022
Monday 21 March, 14:00 - 15:30 UTC
Co-hosted by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Covid-19 knocked an estimated $3 trillion off global economic output in 2020, cast a ‘long sha…
When Hurricane Maria made landfall on September 20, 2017, it caused widespread devastation across Puerto Rico, killing as many as 1,052 people, destroying hundreds of thousands of homes, causing an island-wide blackout, and blocking over half of the 3.4 million residents from access to potable water.
At the six month mark, the situation remains critica…
Puerto Rico has a wealth of cultural, historical, and artistic resources that are integral to its cultural identity and sense of place, to tourism, to the arts industry, and to the economy. In September 2017, many of those resources were devastated in Hurricanes Irma and Maria. In this report, the authors present an overview of Puerto Rico's cultural re…
When the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI) launched the Texas Flood Registry in April 2018, the goal was to develop a needs assessment focusing on health and housing impacts of the greater Houston area, which was still recovering less than one year after Hurricane Harvey’s devastating landfall.
In 2019, Tropical Storm Imelda d…
The federal government provided $296 billion in disaster relief for catastrophic events in the US between 2001 and 2019. However, excessive bailouts may encourage economic activity to remain in exposed areas. This column shows that increased post-disaster efforts due to political motives result in more people living in hazard-prone coasta…
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The event will present the results of the first analysis conducted for the region on the digital transformation of this sector. The study focuses on the digital transformation of transport, its challenges and the opportunities it brings to catalyse an inclusive and sustainable economic recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean.…
Kenneth A Gould is professor of sociology and dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Brooklyn College (CUNY), and professor of sociology, and earth and environmental sciences at CUNY Graduate Center. His work focuses on the political economy of environment, technology and development. Tammy L Lewis is professor of sociology at Brooklyn…
This case study documents the lessons learned and contributions of the post disaster needs assessment and disaster recovery framework toward implementing recovery from the August 2021 earthquake in Haiti's Southern Peninsula.
Following the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that devastated the three departments of the Southern Peninsula of the Republic of…
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As the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 approaches its midpoint, the United Nations General Assembly has mandated a midterm review of its implementation, with specific reference made to assessing progress toward its core provision to “build back better”. The global pandemic, climate change, and s…