Natural and Environmental Disasters
Beth
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28 Jun 2011
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The United Nations and its partners this week launched a 20-year, $200 million environmental recovery programme in south-west Haiti that aims to benefit more than 200,000 people and show that sustainable rural development, from fisheries to tourism, is indeed practical.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
By UN News
The United Nations and its partners this week launched a 20-year, $200 million environmental recovery programme in south-west Haiti that aims to benefit more than 200,000 people and...
Beth
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24 Jun 2011
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Port-au-Prince – Haiti and the Dominican Republic kicked off a joint project last month to increase vegetation cover and improve living conditions for people on both sides of the countries’ shared border.
The two neighbours, sharing the island of Hispaňola, launched a four-year project, Green Border (Frontera Verde, in Spanish), to reduce high levels of natural disaster risk for local inhabitants along the border that runs through several rivers and watersheds.
Centuries...
Da
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20 Jun 2011
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One year ago, the earth under the Haitian people convulsed and the international community understood that we were all confronted with a major tragedy, that struck a country whose inhabitants have unfortunately a long story of suffering and struggle against poverty and underdevelopment.
The State of Israel, representing the values of the Jewish people and loyal to the principles of solidarity and " Tikun Olam" that guided us during more than three millenaries of our existence,...
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
SVG has established a National Disaster Plan to deal with both natural and man-made disasters. A national vulnerability assessment is under consideration by the National Emergency Management Office (NEMO) and the National Hazard Mitigation Council under the current Emergency Recovery and Disaster Management Project (ERDM). The National Emergency and Disaster Management Act was enacted in 2006 in the country. The geographical location of SVG falls in the path of hurricanes and tropical storms...
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
St. Lucia has embarked on a series of disaster management initiatives: the country undertook a National Assessment on Risk Management in 2006 and the National Emergency Management Plan was subsequently approved in 2007. A second Disaster Management Project has been recently developed as a follow-up to the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Emergency Recovery and Disaster Management Project. St. Lucia sits on an ancient volcanic ridge with strong volcanic and seismic activity. The...
