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Andrew Tate
Framing Disaster Policy: An Analysis of Hazard Management, Relief and Reconstruction in Jamaica, with Reference to Hurricane Ivan
The context of this research project is an examination of Jamaican hazard management policy and practice (notably the incorporation of the concept of vulnerability), together with a macro and micro-scale analysis of the effects of Hurricane Ivan. Jamaican hazard management is revealed as comprehensive in structure - although the primary emphasis is on self-initiative, increasingly focus is directed towards building the capacity of vulnerable communities through education, training and mapping. Macro-scale disruption with respect to Hurricane Ivan is exposed as primarily infrastructural, the water sector being particularly afflicted (lack of water supplies led to a national rise in water related disease transmission). The greatest degree of devastation was found to be at the micro-scale, for which a case study of Portland Cottage is presented (a community that was heavily impacted by the passage of the storm). Focus at this level is directed to the level of devastation sustained, the post-disaster relief and reconstruction programme, and the general successes in building community capacity to cope in event of a similar disaster. Methodological techniques implemented in the course of enquiry include semi-structured interviews (both intensive and proforma based), transect walks and secondary data analysis.
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