Assessment of the damage caused by flood rains and landslides in association with hurricane Michelle, october 2001: implications for economic, social and environmental development

Preface This study was prepared for the Government of Jamaica following the significant physical damage and economic losses that the country sustained as a result of flood rains associated with the development of Hurricane Michelle. The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) submitted a request for assistance in undertaking a social, environmental and economic impact assessment to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on 14 November 2001. ECLAC responded with haste and modified its work plan to accommodate the request. A request for training in the use of th…

Environmental value, valuation methods, and natural disaster damage assessment

It is largely agreed that successful development depends on the rational use of natural capital (World Bank, 1998). In recent years, advances have been made to measuring progress toward 'sustainable development' (Kunte et al., 1998), and in applying valuation techniques to the analysis of the environmental impacts of investment projects and public policies, both in developed and developing countries (Barbier, 1998). Natural capital is not exclusively endangered by human actions (or inactions). Environmental (quantity or quality) changes may also be induced by natural hazards which, b…

ECLAC officials assist government of Belize in a social, environmental and macroeconomic assessment of the damage caused by Hurricane Keith

ECLAC Officials Assist Government of Belize in a Social, Environmental and Macroeconomic Assessment of the Damage Caused by Hurricane Keith

Belize: assessment of the damage caused by hurricane Keith, 2000: implications for economic, social and environmental development

Natural disasters workshops

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

Los efectos socioeconómicos de las inundaciones y deslizamientos en Venezuela en 1999

Antecedentes La magnitud de los daños ocasionados por las lluvias que desde el mes de noviembre de 1999 azotaron a Venezuela en las zonas costeras e importantes centros urbanos de Venezuela, en particular los estados Vargas, Miranda y Falcón aún no han sido totalmente comprendidos en su impacto global y en sus implicaciones de corto, mediano y largo plazo. El 16 de diciembre de 1999 la Asamblea Constituyente de Venezuela declaró el Estado de Emergencia para el Distrito Federal de Caracas y otros ocho de los estados del país. El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores inició campañas de reco…

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

Disaster assessment in the subregion: ECLAC's methodology

Daños causados por el movimiento telúrico en México y sus repercusiones sobre la economía del país = Dommages causés par le tremblement de terre au Mexique et ses repercussions sur l'économie nationale = Damage caused by the Mexican earthquake...

Presenta una caracterizacion del desastre, y acciones emprendidas por las autoridades; estimaciones sobre la magnitud y alcance de los danos; un analisis de las probables repercusiones sobre las tendencias que ya marcaban la evolucion de la economia mexicana; y algunas apreciaciones sobre la forma en que la comunidad internacional puede apoyar a Mexico en las tareas de reconstruccion.…

Daños causados por el movimiento telúrico en México y sus repercusiones sobre la economía del país = Dommages causés par le tremblement de terre au Mexique et ses repercussions sur l'économie nationale = Damage caused by the Mexican earthquake...

Presenta una caracterizacion del desastre, y acciones emprendidas por las autoridades; estimaciones sobre la magnitud y alcance de los danos; un analisis de las probables repercusiones sobre las tendencias que ya marcaban la evolucion de la economia mexicana; y algunas apreciaciones sobre la forma en que la comunidad internacional puede apoyar a Mexico en las tareas de reconstruccion.…

Fact sheet about the economic and natural disasters situation in Haiti (in Spanish)

Fact sheet about the economic and natural disasters situation in Haiti (in Spanish)…

Primer curso internacional La Economía del Cambio Climático e Impactos Sociales: Métodos y Técnicas de Análisis

El cambio climático es, sin duda, uno de los desafíos más importantes que enfrenta la humanidad durante este siglo. La magnitud de sus impactos en las actividades económicas y sociales, en los ecosistemas y sus orígenes globales lo convierten en un tema de alcance planetario donde su posible solución requiere la participación organizada del conjunto de los gobiernos nacionales, de la sociedad civil y de diversas instituciones y organismos internacionales.…

Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) training session - Lima, Peru

These sessions are being conducted as part of a series of ECLAC training courses that will strengthen the ability of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess damage and losses caused by natural disasters. Considering the fact that Latin America and the Caribbean ranks as one of the regions most affected by disasters, this training will help provide countries with the knowledge to determine their own recovery and reconstruction path, and to incorporate future measures to reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience. This particular session will inform participants on the complex…

Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) training session - Cusco, Peru

These sessions are being conducted as part of a series of ECLAC training courses that will strengthen the ability of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess damage and losses caused by natural disasters. Considering the fact that Latin America and the Caribbean ranks as one of the regions most affected by disasters, this training will help provide countries with the knowledge to determine their own recovery and reconstruction path, and to incorporate future measures to reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience. This particular session will inform participants on the complex…

Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) training session - San Jose, Costa Rica

The training on the Disaster Assessment Methodology was requested by the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy (MIDEPLAN), as part of the ministry’s efforts to improve disaster risk management and reduce risk in the country. The course is imparted during three days, and combines expositions of the methodology with practical cases to allow participants to apply the different concepts and methods. The training is designed for policy makers and professionals involved directly with disaster risk management and risk reduction. Additionally, and since the methodology has a multisectoral …

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

Regional implementation meeting on access rights and sustainable development in the Caribbean region and workshop on climate change, natural disasters and coastal vulnerability