Handbook for estimating the socio-economic and environmental effects of disasters

The sustainability of development in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges and opportunities

Summary The original aim of this study was to serve as an input for the Regional Preparatory Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 23 and 24 October 2001. This document was produced by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In preparing the study, national preparatory activities and inputs from subregional meetings were taken int…

La sostenibilidad del desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe: desafíos y oportunidades

Documento elaborado en el marco de la Conferencia Regional de América Latina y el Caribe preparatoria de la Cumbre Mundial sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible (Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica, 2002), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 23 y 24 de octubre de 2001…

Políticas públicas para la reducción de la vulnerabilidad frente a los desastres naturales y socio-naturales

América Latina y el Caribe es una de las regiones del mundo más afectada por los desastres naturales. Hasta hace poco tiempo en el análisis de los desastres naturales se ponía mucho más énfasis en los agentes causantes (fenómenos físicos como procesos geodinámicos o hidrometeorológicos); y poco en las circunstancias de las poblaciones expuestas. En los últimos años la preocupación se ha ido desplazando hacia las comunidades que sufren los daños. Bajo esta nueva perspectiva, la vulnerabilidad aparece como principal determinante de los daños causados por desastres y las acciones necesarias para …

ECLAC Conducts Training Workshops on Assessing the Impacts of Natural Disasters in the Region

CDCC - Twenty-Five Years of Cooperation and Development: 1975-2000

Seventeenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development Cooperation Committee

“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)…

XVII Reunión del Comité de Monitoreo del Comité de Desarrollo y Cooperación del Caribe

Expert Group Meeting: A Gender Perspective on Environmental Migration and Disaster Displacement in the Caribbean

As a subregion extremely vulnerable to extreme weather events and the adverse effects of climate change, the Caribbean is particularly susceptible to disaster displacement and climate migration.…