Disaster displacement and environmental migration are among the most serious humanitarian challenges facing the Caribbean. As a subregion of small...
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The application of technologies, research, development, promotion of innovative approaches and local knowledge to confront complex issues posed by...
La nueva generación de estándares de sostenibilidad para la minería, muchos de ellos aún en desarrollo, dan un tratamiento más integral a las...
The Caribbean region is prone to disasters due to its geographic location. The exposures and resulting impacts of these disasters are aggravated...
Flooding as an extreme event has become progressively evident in the Caribbean sub-region, as a result of an increased number of intense rainfall...
This set of policy briefs has the objective of profiling disaster risk management (DRM) policies in five selected member States of the Caribbean...
This policy brief has the objective of profiling disaster risk management policies in five selected member states of the Caribbean Development and...
In Caribbean countries, modern telecommunications infrastructure is vulnerable to an array of natural disasters, as exemplified by the impacts of...
Los objetivos de este trabajo son revisar la experiencia de CEPAL en la estimación de impacto económico y social de los desastres naturales. Para...
This paper will contend that the post-2015 development agenda presents a major opportunity for Caribbean countries to reverse decades of lagging...
This document summarizes the regional implementation meeting on access rights and sustainable development in the Caribbean and the workshop on...
This paper examines the role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for disaster risk management (DRM) with a specific focus on the...
Tourism has been a very dynamic activity worldwide over the last fifteen years (until the 2008-2009 economic crisis);. Some developing...
"En los 15 años anteriores a la crisis económica de 2008 y 2009, el turismo había sido muy dinámico a nivel mundial. En algunos países en...
Over the last 35 years the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has assessed major disasters in the...
Las metodologías recogidas en este documento -basadas en los conceptos y criterios del Manual de la CEPAL- se utilizan actualmente en el Centro...
The increasing frequency and economic losses from natural disasters within the framework of decreasing agricultural prices is becoming crucial in...
This assessment of the socio-economic impact of the May 2006 floods in Suriname was carried out at the request of the Government of Suriname,...
This paper is a first conceptual discussion and proposal to formalize the inclusion of the valuation of cultural assets after a disaster. Over...
Los meteoros ocurridos en 2004 y 2005 evidenciaron una vez más tanto el crecido impacto global de los desastres como la necesidad de disponer de...