International - documents and other resources
LEARNING FROM PAST EVENTS
For an excellent set of resources, see the report Learning from Recovery (50 pp.) and several additional useful documents on the same site. The Long-term Recovery Platform (2007) was sponsored by Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC), International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) secretariat and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Based on the experience in Aceh, Indonesia, these resources should be useful in Haiti and other places as well.
For a personal account of the positive outcomes in Aceh, see this news report, which compares the Aceh recovery characteristics with those in Haiti.
NEWS CLIPS
The single best source for aggregated new clips is the site maintained by the MCEER Information Services staff, in my opinion. That site has a special page for the Haiti event and now the Chile earthquake.
Feb. 2, 2010
Reuters Alert Net. (Feb. 3, 2010) Transparency International targets corruption in Haiti aid effort, beyond
Lessons From Haiti, by former U.N. Relief Director
Jan. 31, 2010. Makes a compelling case for resilience.
BBC News. The Challenge of Rebuilding Haiti
Jan. 29, 2010 . Interesting 5 page article.
At least two Canadian sources have some hard-hitting perspectives on plans for economic redevelopment in Haiti.
(1) See Monthly Review magazine, The Vultures Circle Haiti at Every Opportunity, Natural or Man-mady by Regan Boychuck (2/2/10); and
(2) Naomi Klein's website. She is the author of The Shock Doctrine (2008)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Bar Association. Disaster Resources, including some new ones specific to the Haiti earthquake. (2/5/10)
Engineering News-Record ( www.enr.com) 1/25/10
Engineers Urge Overhaul of Haiti's Building Codes and Practices. very important article
RESEARCH CENTERS:
Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC), U.K. A research center that does short-term topical studies and provides research help desk. Wish there were something like this in the U.S. See recent report Technical Assistance for Post-Disaster Recovery. Jan 2010.
ALNAP and Provention Consortium ( U.K.)
Excellent report on lessons learned from past quakes. Responding to earthquakes 2008; learning from earthquake
relief and recovery operations
Univ. of CO/Boulder, Hazards Center – Haiti Info.
Social science research primarily
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)- Haiti-info
International professional association
Multi-Hazards Center for Earthquake Engineering (MCEER)
Excellent resources on earthquake engineering, related disciplines
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)
Earthquake engineering
UN and OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Relief Web
Gateway to numerous officials sources; administered by the U.N. Office of
Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
A partnership composed of many international and European organizations.
See especially their new site dealing with Home Safety:
http://www.housingreconstruction.org/housing/
PREVENTION Web
From the Benfield Centre, U.K.
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MAPS: See NY Times article and map, dated Jan. 25, 2010.
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