Pacific Standard
21 March 2020
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Canaan, Haiti
A survivor of Haiti's earthquake sought out a new home on an unclaimed plot of land which is home to one of the country's largest cemeteries. Madame Roy built a neighborhood from the ground up with the help of architects and funding from people who wanted to be residents of the future city. Roads, homes, a cistern, a soccer field, and a school were all built without the help of the Haitian government. 200,000 residents who lost everything in the earthquake have found a chance to start over in the new city of Canaan.
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/16032016/mercaptans-eight-mile
Neela Banerjee
Inside Climate News
17 March 2016
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Eight years after a mercaptan spill in Eight Mile, Alabama, its mostly black and working class residents still suffer from respiratory issues, rashes and headaches.
http://qz.com/621038/how-nasa-accidentally-found-a-way-to-make-buildings-safer-during-earthquakes
Margo Pierce
Quartz
22 February 2016
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NASA developed a new stabilizing technology, known as the LOX Damper, in 2013 after working on a violently shaking rocket. Testing revealed that the technology could help design earthquake-proof buildings.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jul/14/volunteers-bangladesh-learn-life-or-death-difference-disaster-rana-plaza
Amy Yee
The Guardian
14 July 2015
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In the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, Bangladeshi civilians—often first on the scene of disasters in poorer countries–are being trained to support emergency teams.
http://www.citylab.com/weather/2015/04/another-way-to-help-humanitarian-efforts-in-nepal-start-mapping/391523/#b05g04t20w15
Laura Bliss
CityLab
27 April 2015
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Citizen cartographers around the globe are tracing and checking roads, buildings, and open spaces to assist people on the ground. You can help.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-25/they-survived-earthquake-now-theyre-determined-keep-their-village-healthy
Sonia Narang
Public Radio International (PRI)
25 April 2016
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For one village in Nepal, there's a silver lining to the earthquake: A year later, a new and better health clinic is rising from the rubble of the old. And it includes a birthing center.
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/for-refugees-the-price-of-dignity
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
1 September 2011
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American humanitarian aid and programs by the United Nations have proved beneficial to equip Middle Eastern refugees with resources for self-settlement outside of camps. The self-settlement model has empowered refugees to become more productive members of society when they return home.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35472936
Allan Urry
BBC
9 February 2016
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After record-breaking rainfall and flooding, the city of York was at a loss for relief and reconstruction ideas. They turned to the Dutch city of Nijmegen, which had experienced similar flooding and found a solution in building a relief channel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/magazine/how-to-build-a-perfect-refugee-camp.html
Mac McClelland
The New York Times
13 February 2014
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Refugee camps typically look like a prison with squalid conditions and barbed wire tops. By contrast, the Kilis refugee camp in Turkey is orderly, secure, and clean; has schools for children; has grocery stores, and is powered with electricity. The camp is not run by the United Nations, but rather it is Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency that oversees every detail and pours billions of dollars into maintaining it every year.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/preparing-for-disaster-by-betting-against-it
Georgia Levenson Keohane
The New York Times
12 February 2014
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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, necessity has bred an interesting kind of financial invention for the New York MTA: the world’s first “catastrophe” bond - a reinsurance for the insurer - designed to protect public transportation infrastructure, specifically against storm surge. These bonds privatize risk for public gain, creating a kind of tool that may protect economic development against all kinds of natural and man-made disasters around the world.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/in-bangladesh-more-shelter-from-the-storms
Amy Yee
The New York Times
24 July 2013
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In a country of limited resources — and perhaps for that very reason — preparing for natural disasters is top of the agenda in Bangladesh. Various grassroots, collaborative programs have been put in place over the years to help address many facets of the calamities caused by cyclones, from improved emergency shelters to long-term support for those who lose their livelihoods in the storms.
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