PROJECTS DRRC jointly hosted a workshop with CDERA on “The role of Education on disaster risk reduction with focus on Tertiary education”. October, 2006.
DRRC funded a research project on the economic impact of a 1907 earthquake on Jamaica if repeated in 2007.
DRRC funded an overview of early warning systems in the Caribbean
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The DRRC and USAID/OFDA hosted a 3-day workshop in March 2009 to critique a course in Disaster Risk Reduction.
The DRRC has secured a 2 - year grant from the World Bank to produce a Caribbean Risk Atlas for floods, hurricanes and earthquakes for a selected number of CARICOM countries. |
PUBLICATIONS
A Socioeconomic Impact Assessment of a 1907-type Earthquake on the Jamaican Economy. Ahmad, R, & Mason M. 2007, 78 pp. Report, Disaster Risk Reduction Centre, The University of the West Indies.
The socioeconomic impact of the 1907 earthquake on the Jamaican economy. Mason, M., 2007 Second Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management, December 10-14, 2007 Barbados. http://cdm.cdera.org/cccdm/2007/cd/startup.htm
GIS-based flood susceptibility mapping: a tool for environmental change monitoring of the Caribbean region. 2007. Second Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management, December 10-14, 2007 Barbados. Opadeyi, J., Cooper,V. & Spence, B. http://cdm.cdera.org/cccdm/2007/cd/startup.htm
The disaster risk management benchmarking tool for the Caribbean. Opadeyi, J. and Spence, B. 2007. Second Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management, December 10-14, 2007 Barbados. http://cdm.cdera.org/cccdm/2007/cd/startup.htm
The Disaster Risk Reduction Centre: An Insight, Mason, M. July 9, 2008. UN-SPIDER workshop, Barbados. www.cdera.org/workshop/un-spider/index.html.
Proceedings of a Symposium on Recent Developments in Disaster Risk Reduction: A University of the West Indies Contribution. July 10, 2008.
Mainstreaming of comprehensive disaster management at the education sector level of the Anglophone Caribbean. Jackson, T. 2008. Third Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management, December 8-12, 2008, Barbados. http://cdm.cdera.org/cccdm/2008/cd/startup.htm