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Disaster preparedness and climate change in Cuba : management and adaptation / edited by Emily J. Kirk, Isabel Story, and Anna Clayfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Lexington studies on Cuba.
- Lexington studies on Cuba
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Cuba.
- Climatic changes.
- Emergency management--Cuba.
- Emergency management.
- Cuba.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba discusses how, over six decades, Cuba developed a world-leading model of disaster management and climate change adaptation. Comprised of leading scholars and policy makers in the field, this volume questions what makes Cuba's effective model so distinctive and what others can learn from it.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Acronyms
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- Chapter 1: Disaster Preparedness and Management: What Makes the Cuban Approach Different?
- The Evolution of Cuba's Approach
- Distinguishing Characteristics of Cuba's Disaster Preparedness and Management System
- Conclusion
- Note
- Chapter 2: Disaster Management in Cuba: Formal, Semi-Formal, and Informal Procedures
- Formal Procedures
- Semi-Formal Procedures
- Informal Procedures
- The Significance of Cuba's Formal, Semi-Formal, and Informal Procedures
- Chapter 3: First and Last Bulwark against Natural Disasters: Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces
- The Natural Disaster Challenge in Cuba
- The Armed Forces of Cuba
- The FAR and Natural Disasters
- And How Is It all Done?
- Recent and not so Recent Trends
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 4: Cuba-Russia Cooperation: The History of Fraternal Disaster Management Collaboration
- The Cuban-Soviet alliance: An Overview
- Fraternal and Internationalist Help
- A Shared Phenomenon
- Chapter 5: Bastión: The Shaping of a Pueblo Combatiente and Natural Disaster Management
- The Guerra de Todo el Pueblo and the Launch of Bastión
- Bastión in the New Millennium: Incorporating Natural Disaster Preparation
- Chapter 6: Meteoro : The Impact of Education on Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Education in Cuba
- Meteoro
- Chapter 7: Postgraduate Education Concerning Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Cuban Health Sector
- Knowledge: The Foundation of Disaster Risk Reduction
- Human Resources Preparedness for Disasters
- CLAMED: A New Focus.
- The Challenges of Confronting Climate Change
- Chapter 8: People Power: Cuba's Path to Effective Disaster Management
- The Current Political Administrative System
- Building Organizational and Institutional Infrastructure
- Building an Educational and Scientific Base
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
- Chapter 9: Cuba's Tarea Vida: Sustainable Development and Combating Climate Change
- The Cuban Revolution Commits to Environmental Protection
- The Pivot to Sustainable Development in the 1990s
- The Challenge of Climate Change: Antecedents to Tarea Vida
- Climate Change: An Existential Threat
- Tarea Vida: The State Plan to Confront Climate Change
- Tarea Vida: Strategic Actions and Tasks
- National Mobilization and Community Participation
- Controlling Implementation
- Tomorrow will be Too Late
- Chapter 10: International Collaboration on the Environment and Marine Conservation in Cuba: Reflections from Environmental Defense Fund
- What Makes Cuba Special in Terms of Marine Conservation?
- Why Should the United States Collaborate with Cuba on Marine Conservation?
- Selected Successful International Marine Conservation Collaborations
- Cuba Continues to Lead the Way on Conservation in the Caribbean and Set the Stage for Greater Collaboration
- The Impacts of Cuba's Success in Marine Conservation: Reaching Other Countries and Motivating Action through International Collaborations
- Future U.S.-Cuba Environmental Collaboration: Based on Common Goals
- Chapter 11: Agroecology, Food, and the Climate Crisis: Transition, Adaptation, and Building Resilience in Cuba
- The Role of Family Farming in Strengthening Resilience
- Integrating Food and Energy Production for Resilience and Sovereignty.
- Agroecological Co-innovation for Resilience to Droughts
- Chapter 12: The Quest for Energy Alternatives in Post-1959 Cuba
- The Early Quest to Democratize Energy
- The Expediency of the Special Period: An Acute Energy Crisis
- Renewable Energy: Fueling the Battle of Ideas
- 2006: "Year of the Energy Revolution"
- Improving Energy Efficiency at Home
- Embedding the Energy Revolution
- A Bright and Renewable Cuba?
- The Role of Foreign Investment
- Chapter 13: The Foundation, Evolution, and Significance of Law as Part of Cuba's Adaptive Governance of Hazard Response
- The Value Foundation of the Civil Defense and its Legal Framework
- The Constituent Instruments of the Civil Defense's Legal Framework
- The Civil Defense's Legal Framework as Model of "Adaptive Governance"
- Chapter 14: Timeline: Important Events in Cuban Disaster Management and Climate Change Adaptation
- Index
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-66698-868-5
- 1-7936-5132-9
- OCLC:
- 1260690304
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