Community-Based Environmental Management: A Tool For Natural Disaster Risk Reduction In Haiti?
Abstract
This report provides an in-depth analysis of how Haiti can successfully apply community-based
environmental management as a tool for reducing its risks to natural disasters. The
approach to answer this policy challenge is three-pronged. First, this report analyzes
Haiti’s disaster risk
profile and establishes the various linkages between environmental degradation and
natural disasters. Second, the report utilizes community-based environmental management
literature and worldwide ‘Best Practice Examples’ of local disaster risk reduction
initiatives to create a framework for risk-reducing community-based environmental
management. Third, the report
evaluates the soundness of this new framework by applying it to one Haitian community
– Fondwa. On a more global scale, this study contributes valuable information on how
communities can adapt and implement community-based environmental management practices
in order to reduce their vulnerabilities to disaster impacts while simultaneously
tackling environmental degradation.
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Eichler, Lisa (2006). Community-Based Environmental Management: A Tool For Natural Disaster Risk Reduction
In Haiti?. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/68.Collections
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