The role of social capital in resiliency: Disaster recovery in Puerto Rico

A Delilah Roque, D Pijawka… - Risk, Hazards & Crisis in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The disasters that occurred during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season not only became an
economic burden for federal and local governments but also for those who had their houses …

Geographies of Caribbean vulnerability in a changing climate: Issues and trends

K Rhiney - Geography Compass, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
While it is generally recognized that the projected changes in the global climate will have
serious negative consequences for the Caribbean as a whole, it is becoming more and more …

A social justice framing of climate change discourse and policy: Adaptation, resilience and vulnerability in a Jamaican agricultural landscape

J Popke, S Curtis, DW Gamble - Geoforum, 2016 - Elsevier
It is now widely recognized that climate change is likely to have detrimental impacts across
the Caribbean region, with the burden likely to fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable …

Shocks and cherries: The production of vulnerability among smallholder coffee farmers in Jamaica

Z Guido, C Knudson, T Finan, M Madajewicz… - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
Coffee is a global commodity that supports the livelihoods of 100 million people worldwide,
many of whom are smallholder farmers. While smallholder farmers are known to be …

Environmental change and the livelihood resilience of coffee farmers in Jamaica: A case study of the Cedar Valley farming region

D Campbell - Journal of Rural Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid socio-ecological changes are transforming coffee production systems causing
hardship and uncertainty among farmers across the Caribbean. The uncertainty and …

Climate (in) justice, vulnerability and livelihoods in the Caribbean: The case of the indigenous Caribs in northeastern St. Vincent

RAJ Smith, K Rhiney - Geoforum, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper examines climate justice from the perspective of three remote indigenous Carib
communities located in northeastern St. Vincent, amidst their vulnerability to climatic …

Climate change and coffee: Assessing vulnerability by modeling future climate suitability in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico

SJ Fain, M Quiñones, NL Álvarez-Berríos… - Climatic Change, 2018 - Springer
Coffee production has long been culturally and economically important in Puerto Rico.
However, since peaking in the late nineteenth century, harvests are near record lows with …

[HTML][HTML] How do stakeholder interactions influence national food security policy in the Caribbean? The case of Saint Lucia

AS Saint Ville, GM Hickey, LE Phillip - Food Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
Increasingly, multi-stakeholder processes have been recognized as being necessary to the
development of public policies seeking to promote systemic innovation in response to …

Development justice, a proposal: Reckoning with disaster, catastrophe, and climate change in the Caribbean

L Gahman, G Thongs - Transactions of the Institute of British …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper proposes that “development justice” be taken up as an analytical concept and
praxis‐driven framework for research on disasters, resilience, and climate change. The …

Strategic framework of Unmanned Aerial Systems integration in the disaster management public organisations of the Dominican Republic

HR Vanderhorst, S Suresh, S Renukappa… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the Caribbean region, there is a significant yearly number of natural events incidents. The
impact of those events has affected the well-being, social and economic structures of the …