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This film shows how to build a safer wooden shelter and serves as tutorial on hurricane resistant techniques.
A presentation by Anna Pavan, Louise Foulkes, and Oluwaseun Okusanya examines the cost-benefit analysis of enhancing Housing Resilience against Hurricanes in Dominica
The Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), a national non-profit engineering, research and communications initiative of the insurance industry, provides the following recommendations for...
This document can also be found on the official website of the American Red Cross at https://www.redcross.org/
These standards reflect the application...
On 1 September 2019, Hurricane Dorian made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane on Abaco Islands, The Bahamas, before moving over Grand Bahama Island, The Bahamas. As of 29 October, the official...
This document can also be found on the Official website of the U.S.Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at https://www.fema.gov/
The document...
Bullet points of important lessons learned from Honduras response to Hurricane Mitch
In 1980 Hurricane Allen brushed along the southern coast of Haiti and did considerable damage to several communities. Although damage was relatively light, Allen demonstrated that the majority of...
In September 17 and 18, hurricane Jeanne affected the northwest of Haiti, killing to more than 1, 600 people and destroying crops, cattle and at least 5, 000 houses. The most important damage...
The Dominica Waste Management Mission Report covers the aftermath and disaster waste management of the two devastating hurricanes that struck the Caribbean islands in September 2017. Two...