Natural and Environmental Disasters
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
The St. Kitts and Nevis National Disaster Management Agency was established under the National Disaster Management Act of St Christopher and Nevis 1998. Apart from the legislation which relates directly to disaster management and mitigation, there is also a physical planning and development policies to address the implications for disaster mitigation. The Federation is particularly vulnerable to damage from tropical storms. Earthquakes are derived directly from the tectonic interaction of the...
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
Haiti has recently signed the agreement to join the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDEMA) seeking aid and cooperation mechanism in the area of disaster management at the regional level. Located in the Caribbean basin, cyclones, floods, droughts, and earthquakes together with tsunamis’ are the main natural disasters to impact Haiti. The country was severely devastated following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12 of 2010. Haiti’s high level of poverty, combined with...
courtney
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17 Jun 2011
Since 2004, Dominica has been drafting an updated Emergency Management Act (EMA), which is yet to be enacted. In the absence of a national hazard mitigation policy and plan, supportive components of various projects have addressed issues concerning the protection of Dominica’s biodiversity from the natural and environmental disasters. To this end, Dominica’s Office of Disaster Management (ODM) has been assigned to cooperate with various stakeholders and to permit development of precautionary...
courtney
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17 Jun 2011
Antigua and Barbuda has been developing its national disaster preparedness and management capacity. Cooperation with other states is also undertaken at the regional level through the Caribbean Meteorological Organization and the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology.Antigua and Barbuda’s natural climate is punctuated by the occurrence of a range of extreme climatic events such as tropical storms, hurricanes, sea surges, floods and droughts. In recent years, the country has seen a...
elena
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02 May 2011
In 2010, the Seychelles produced a report for the UNISDR on its progress towards implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action 2009-2010.
The geographic location of the Seychelles means that the country is not in the direct line of tropical storms, but trade winds from May to October result in drier conditions, producing droughts which result in severe water shortages that affect agriculture and all other sectors of the economy. The effects of climate change and sea surface temperature...
