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Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with Vulnerable Populations after the Cameras Have Gone - A Worldwide Study (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with Vulnerable Populations after the Cameras Have Gone - A Worldwide Study (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This volume focuses on the status of the elderly and the disabled
after disasters globally as well as the challenges of
post-earthquake rebuilding in Haiti.The International Federation of
the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has estimated that between
1987 and 2007, about 26 million older people were affected each
year by natural disasters alone and that this figure could more
than double by 2050 due to the rapidly changing demographics of
ageing. People with disabilities (physical, medical, sensory or
cognitive) are equally at risk of utter neglect during and after
disasters. The Australian Agency for International Development
estimates that 650 million people across the world have a
disability and about 80 per cent of them live in developing
countries.Similarly, before the January 2010 earthquake, Haiti was
a "country with tremendous development needs and numerous
impediments to development," according to Congresswoman Maxine
Waters when introducing a Resolution in the US House of
Representatives to cancel Haiti's debts in March 2007. These
impediments included an overwhelming burden of international debt;
lack of personal and community assets; and, very little or no
internal and external capacities, all of which have been
exacerbated by the aftermath of the earthquake.It was against this
background that the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities
after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts Boston organized
two international Conferences in 2010 - in April, on Rebuilding
Sustainable Communities in Haiti in the wake of the January
Earthquake; and, in July, on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities
with the Elderly and Disabled People after Disasters.This edited
book consists of selected papers that were presented at these
academic events. The topics include Disaster Experiences of the
Elderly and the Disabled in Nigeria; The Vulnerability of Elderly
People in the Aftermath of Earthquakes in Iran; Methods for
Assessing and Developing Understanding of Resiliency in
Communities; The Tuareg's traditional Shelter for Disaster
Mitigation and Reconstruction in Libya; and, People with
Disabilities in Haiti Before and After the 2010 Earthquake.
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