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2. Haiti: Aftershocks
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Heymann,David L. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 2010
- Published:
- London, UK: Royal Institute of International Affairs
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The World Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 66(2) : 4-6
- Notes:
- Hundreds of thousands are likely to have died, millions are in need, their homes having been lost. Many wait for medical care. Safe water is in short supply and the rainy season starts in May. Could it have been different in Haiti? Would good planning have eased the pain of the shocks?
3. Haiti: post-earthquake lessons learned from traditional construction
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Audefroy,Joel F. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2011
- Published:
- London, UK: Sage Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Environment & Urbanization
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(2) : 447-462
- Notes:
- Considers the potential contribution of traditional construction techniques and materials to rebuilding in Port-au-Prince and other areas in Haiti that were devastated by the 2010 earthquake. Based on different examples of housing that collapsed or was damaged by the earthquake, it shows how traditional construction systems often demonstrated better resilience to earthquakes than buildings constructed with modern materials.
4. Implementing low-cost landslide risk reduction: a pilot study in unplanned housing areas of the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Anderson,Malcolm (Author), Holcombe,Liz (Author), Flory,Rob (Author), and Renaud,Jean-Philippe (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2008
- Published:
- Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Natural Hazards
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(3) : 297-315
- Notes:
- Landslides pose a serious physical and environmental threat to vulnerable communities living in areas of unplanned housing on steep slopes in the Caribbean. Some of these communities have, in the past, had to be relocated, at costs of millions of dollars, because of major slides triggered by tropical storm rainfall. Even so, evidence shows that: (1) risk reduction is a marginal activity; (2) there has been minimal uptake of hazard maps and vulnerability assessments and (3) there is little on-the-ground delivery of construction for risk reduction. This article directly addresses these issues by developing a low-cost approach to the identification of the potential pore pressure changes that trigger such slides.
5. Methodology for benefit-cost analysis of seismic codes
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Peterson,Jomari (Author) and Small,Mitchell J. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Natural Hazards
- Journal Title Details:
- 63(2) : 1039-1053
- Notes:
- A benefit-cost analysis was performed on varying levels of standard buildings codes for Haiti and Puerto Rico. It was found that in the two areas studied, the expected loss of life was reduced the most by use of high seismic building code levels, but lower levels of seismic building code were more cost-effective when considering only building damages and the costs for code implementation.
6. Producing landslide-susceptibility maps for regional planning in data-scarce regions
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Graff,Jerome V. (Author), Romesburg,H. Charles (Author), Ahmad,Rafi (Author), and McCalpin,James P. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2012
- Published:
- Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Natural Hazards
- Journal Title Details:
- 64(1) : 729-749
- Notes:
- In many of the lesser developed areas of the world, regional development planning is increasingly important for meeting the needs of current and future inhabitants. Illustrates how matrix assessment methodology was applied to produce a landslide-susceptibility map for the Commonwealth of Dominica, an island nation in the eastern Caribbean, and how with a follow up study the relative landslide-susceptibility mapping was validated. A second Caribbean application on Jamaica demonstrates how this methodology can be applied in a more geologically complex setting.
7. Reform of the national police and the construction Democratic in Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fortin,Isabelle (Author) and Pierre,Yves-Francois (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2011
- Published:
- Ottawa, Canada: University of Ottawa
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'etudes du developpement
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(1) : 64-78
- Notes:
- The recurrence of violence in Haiti since February 1986 has generated strong demands for reforms to the security and justice system, in the broader context and process of democratic construction. Important transformations have been implemented, but certain factors have hampered change. Challenges include an institutional culture that resists certain changes, weak links between the police and justice, inadequate support from international actors, and a deeply constraining economic context.
8. Still Trembling: State Obligation Under International Law to End Post-Earthquake Rape in Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Davis,Lisa (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2011
- Published:
- Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- University of Miami Law Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 65(3) : 867-892
- Notes:
- Examines how post-earthquake conditions in Haiti have left women and girls in a heightened state of vulnerability as well as the ineffectiveness of the U.N. and government to uphold obligations under international law to include grassroots women's leadership in the planning and implementation sessions to address sexual violence in displacement camps.
9. The growing role of web-based geospatial technology in disaster response and support
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kawasaki,Akiyuki (Author), Berman,Merrick Lex (Author), and Guan,Wendy (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2013
- Published:
- Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Disasters (Disasters)
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(2) : 201-221
- Notes:
- This paper begins by reviewing briefly at historical changes in the employment of geospatial technologies in major devastating disasters, including the Sichuan and Haiti earthquakes. It goes on to assess changes in the available dataset type and in geospatial disaster responders, as well as the impact of geospatial technological changes on disaster relief effort. Finally, the paper discusses lessons learned from recent responses and offers some thoughts for future development.