Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba

Emily J. Kirk; Isabel Story; Anna Clayfield

doi:10.5771/9781793651327

Summary

As a result of climate change, ocean temperatures are warming and sea levels are rising. Natural disasters have been increasing in frequency and ferocity. Yet, over six decades, Cuba has developed a world-leading model for disaster preparedness and risk reduction. Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Management and Adaptation discusses the island’s ongoing resilience against the impacts of climate change. Its commitment to disaster preparedness and management are lauded by international bodies, such as the United Nations and World Health Organization, and by governments from across the globe. Comprised of research from leading scholars, policy makers, and activists, this comprehensive, multidisciplinary analysis of Cuba’s model explores why Cuba’s approach to emergency disaster response is such a success and the aspects that make it so distinct, while also informing readers about the much-needed improvement of international approaches and policies. Scholars of communication, environmental studies, and Latin American studies will find this book particularly interesting.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5131-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5132-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 248
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Acronyms No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Bibliography No access
1. The Evolution of Cuba’s Approach No access
2. Distinguishing Characteristics of Cuba’s Disaster Preparedness and Management System No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Note No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. Formal Procedures No access
2. Semi-Formal Procedures No access
3. Informal Procedures No access
4. The Significance of Cuba’s Formal, Semi-Formal, and Informal Procedures No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. The Natural Disaster Challenge in Cuba No access
2. The Armed Forces of Cuba No access
3. The FAR and Natural Disasters No access
4. And How Is It all Done? No access
5. Recent and not so Recent Trends No access
6. Conclusions No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. The Cuban–Soviet alliance: An Overview No access
2. Fraternal and Internationalist Help No access
3. A Shared Phenomenon No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. The Guerra de Todo el Pueblo and the Launch of Bastión No access
2. Bastión in the New Millennium: Incorporating Natural Disaster Preparation No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. Education in Cuba No access
2. Meteoro No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. Knowledge: The Foundation of Disaster Risk Reduction No access
2. Human Resources Preparedness for Disasters No access
3. CLAMED: A New Focus No access
4. The Challenges of Confronting Climate Change No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. The Current Political Administrative System No access
2. Building Organizational and Institutional Infrastructure No access
3. Building an Educational and Scientific Base No access
4. Disaster Risk Reduction and Management No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. The Cuban Revolution Commits to Environmental Protection No access
2. The Pivot to Sustainable Development in the 1990s No access
3. The Challenge of Climate Change: Antecedents to Tarea Vida No access
4. Climate Change: An Existential Threat No access
5. Tarea Vida: The State Plan to Confront Climate Change No access
6. Tarea Vida: Strategic Actions and Tasks No access
7. National Mobilization and Community Participation No access
8. Controlling Implementation No access
9. Tomorrow will be Too Late No access
10. Notes No access
11. Bibliography No access
1. What Makes Cuba Special in Terms of Marine Conservation? No access
2. Why Should the United States Collaborate with Cuba on Marine Conservation? No access
3. Selected Successful International Marine Conservation Collaborations No access
4. Cuba Continues to Lead the Way on Conservation in the Caribbean and Set the Stage for Greater Collaboration No access
5. The Impacts of Cuba’s Success in Marine Conservation: Reaching Other Countries and Motivating Action through International Collaborations No access
6. Future U.S.–Cuba Environmental Collaboration: Based on Common Goals No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. The Role of Family Farming in Strengthening Resilience No access
2. Integrating Food and Energy Production for Resilience and Sovereignty No access
3. Agroecological Co-innovation for Resilience to Droughts No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. The Early Quest to Democratize Energy No access
2. The Expediency of the Special Period: An Acute Energy Crisis No access
3. Renewable Energy: Fueling the Battle of Ideas No access
4. 2006: “Year of the Energy Revolution” No access
5. Improving Energy Efficiency at Home No access
6. Embedding the Energy Revolution No access
7. A Bright and Renewable Cuba? No access
8. The Role of Foreign Investment No access
9. Conclusion No access
10. Notes No access
11. Bibliography No access
1. The Value Foundation of the Civil Defense and its Legal Framework No access
2. The Constituent Instruments of the Civil Defense’s Legal Framework No access
3. The Civil Defense’s Legal Framework as Model of “Adaptive Governance” No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. Bibliography No access
Conclusion No access Pages 235 - 238
Index No access Pages 239 - 244
About the Contributors No access Pages 245 - 248