Storms of 98

Citation

(2003), "Storms of 98", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 12 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2003.07312aae.001

Storms of 98

Below are summaries of some of the recent, most useful publications on hazards and disasters received by the Natural Hazards Center. All items contain information on how to obtain a copy. A complete bibliography of publications received from 1995 to the present can be found on Web site: www.colorado.edu/hazards/bib/bib.html

Storms of 98

The publication The Storms of '98: Hurricanes Georges and Mitch. Impact, Institutional Response, and Policies for Disasters in Three Countries (authors Olson, Richard So; Alvarez, Ricardo A; Baird, Bruce P.; Estrada, Amelia; Gawronski, Vincent To; Sarmiento Prieto, Juan Pablo) was published earlier in English by the "Natural Hazards Research Center" of the University of Colorado.

This excellent publication has been translated into Spanish and is now available through the Webpage of the Regional Disaster Information Center (CRID) at: www.crid.or.cr/digitalizacion/pdf/spa/doc13932/doc1392.htm.

This study analyses, with a critical eye, the impact, the institutional response, and the "disaster policies" of Hurricane Georges in the Dominican Republic (September 1998) and Mitch in Honduras and Nicaragua in (October 1998), including the way the press dealt with both disasters. Special attention is paid to the way in which agencies and organisations in these three countries, which should have been responsible for response and coordination, were marginalized.

Download the Spanish version of the publication from the CRID Web site at the address above. The English version is on the Web site of the Natural Hazards Center of the University of Colorado at: www.colorado.edu/hazards/sp/ssp38/sp38.html

(Disaster: Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas, No. 87, April 2002.)