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Book The Honduras Hurricane

Download or read book The Honduras Hurricane written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch

Download or read book The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch written by Marisa O. Ensor and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch

Download or read book The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch written by Marisa O. Ensor and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 anaturala 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.

Book Honduras

    Book Details:
  • Author : World Bank. Office of the President
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 19 pages

Download or read book Honduras written by World Bank. Office of the President and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hurricane Mitch   Peak Discharge for Selected River Reaches in Honduras

Download or read book Hurricane Mitch Peak Discharge for Selected River Reaches in Honduras written by Mark E. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Debt to Disaster

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  • Author : Christian Aid
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book In Debt to Disaster written by Christian Aid and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From the Outposts

Download or read book From the Outposts written by Sir John Burdon and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Honduras Hurricane Assessment Mission Report

Download or read book British Honduras Hurricane Assessment Mission Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hurricane Mitch in Central America

Download or read book Hurricane Mitch in Central America written by Elam D. Lapp and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the country, in terms of the amount of area affected. This hurricane passed through Central America late October & early November of 1998. Mitch leaves the nation in ruins, no water, no food, no electricity, no phone, in some areas no houses remained, no roads, no bridges, but plenty of mud, some places as far as the eye can see. Damage to infrastructure & agriculture is estimated in the billions of dollars. Appealing for international help, Honduran President announced that his country's developments had been set back 50 years. You can read about the drama; experiences as told by survivors in this 160 page, 8-1/2 x 11 book with more than 160 color pictures of damage related happenings, (some quotes from survivors.) Rebuilding will be an awesome job. The Choluteca River reeks of sewage, but the dozen men digging in its bank don't mind, they are looking for buried treasures, a tire would be great, a car would be like a gold mine. Rainfall in some areas was up to 75 inches, causing the Volcano Casto in Nicaragua to explode & wash a total village away, killing hundreds of people. This book is a must for school libraries & bookstores, also including information & data on the hurricane. This book is available from: Brookside Bookstore, 420 Weaver Rd., Millersburg, PA 17061. Phone: 717-692-4759.T

Book Flood hazard Mapping in Honduras in Response to Hurricane Mitch

Download or read book Flood hazard Mapping in Honduras in Response to Hurricane Mitch written by Mark C. Mastin and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Storm Warnings

Download or read book Storm Warnings written by Martin Mowforth and published by CIIR. This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hurricane

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  • Author : Terry Trueman
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2012-07-24
  • ISBN : 0062216961
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Hurricane written by Terry Trueman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful story of a boy's fear and courage in the face of a force of nature too huge to even imagine. Based on Hurricane Mitch's devastation of Honduras in 1998, Terry Trueman's acclaimed Hurricane is a gripping, realistic story told from the perspective of a hurricane survivor. After hours of cowering in the dark with no lights, no warmth, and the terrible noises of the rain and wind pounding on the walls, José walks out his front door and steps into a nightmare. Everything is gone. Everything except for the desperate courage of those who survived that terrifying night. But his nightmare has only begun as he and the few who are left in his small village dig for survivors, search for food and water, and try to start pulling their lives back together.

Book From Strangers to Neighbors

Download or read book From Strangers to Neighbors written by Ryan Alaniz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural disasters, the effects of climate change, and political upheavals and war have driven tens of millions of people from their homes and spurred intense debates about how governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should respond with long-term resettlement strategies. Many resettlement efforts have focused primarily on providing infrastructure and have done little to help displaced people and communities rebuild social structure, which has led to resettlement failures throughout the world. So what does it take to transform a resettlement into a successful community? This book offers the first long-term comparative study of social outcomes through a case study of two Honduran resettlements built for survivors of Hurricane Mitch (1998) by two different NGOs. Although residents of each arrived from the same affected neighborhoods and have similar demographics, twelve years later one resettlement wrestles with high crime, low participation, and low social capital, while the other maintains low crime, a high degree of social cohesion, participation, and general social health. Using a multi-method approach of household surveys, interviews, ethnography, and analysis of NGO and community documents, Ryan Alaniz demonstrates that these divergent resettlement trajectories can be traced back to the type and quality of support provided by external organizations and the creation of a healthy, cohesive community culture. His findings offer important lessons and strategies that can be utilized in other places and in future resettlement policy to achieve the most effective and positive results.

Book Gender and Post disaster Reconstruction

Download or read book Gender and Post disaster Reconstruction written by Patricia L. Delaney and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Governing Affect

Download or read book Governing Affect written by Roberto E. Barrios and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roberto E. Barriospresents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters: southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; Chiapas, Mexico, after the Grijalva River landslide; and southern Illinois following the Mississippi River flood. Focusing on the role of affect, Barrios examines the ways in which people who live through disasters use emotions as a means of assessing the relevance of governmentally sanctioned recovery plans, judging the effectiveness of such programs, and reflecting on the risk of living in areas that have been deemed prone to disaster. Emotions such as terror, disgust, or sentimental attachment to place all shape the meanings we assign to disasters as well as our political responses to them. The ethnographic cases in Governing Affect highlight how reconstruction programs, government agencies, and recovery experts often view postdisaster contexts as opportune moments to transform disaster-affected communities through principles and practices of modernist and neoliberal development. Governing Affect brings policy and politics into dialogue with human emotion to provide researchers and practitioners with an analytical toolkit for apprehending and addressing issues of difference, voice, and inequity in the aftermath of catastrophes."--

Book Health and Human Rights in Honduras

Download or read book Health and Human Rights in Honduras written by Luke Rawlings and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: