Citation
(2001), "Hurricanes", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 10 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2001.07310dag.004
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
Hurricanes
Hurricanes
World Neighbourswww.wn.org/newsevents.asp www.wn.org/Mitch.pdf
World Neighbours is a non-profit, charitable organization that works with rural poor in 18 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to strengthen the ability of individuals and communities to solve their own problems of hunger, poverty and disease. World Neighbours programs integrate improved agriculture, community-based health and family planning, environmental conservation, water and sanitation, and small business.
At the second URL above, the organization recently published an extensive report on post-Hurricane Mitch recovery entitled Reasons for Resiliency: Toward a Sustainable Recovery after Hurricane Mitch. The basic premise is that much of the Hurricane Mitch damage was, fundamentally, human-caused and preventable – not an act of God.
Funded by the Ford, Rockefeller, and Summit foundations, the study shows that land use in Central America amplified the storm's damage, whereas alternative farming methods in the future could cut erosion by more than half, save topsoil, and reduce run-off.