Hurricane Response: Learning from Disaster Management in Haiti

Hurricane Response: Learning from Disaster Management in Haiti

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For Rita Sciarra, Project Manager for the United Nations Development Programme disaster response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, preparation for disasters is key to effective response. She talks about the critical steps to creating a good disaster response program, multilateral coordination efforts with local governments, and the role of technology in ongoing disaster response. She talks about how the increasing number of hurricanes in the Caribbean could make affected islands increasingly vulnerable to more damage and the importance of preparing communities not traditionally affected by hurricanes as they become increasingly common in the Atlantic. “The statistics say we are going to have more and more disasters and less and less money,” she says. But there’s still hope. With better public sector planning in advance of disasters, governments like Mexico are learning to avoid loss of life on the scale of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Joshua Lynn on Party Realignment as Racial Realignment in the Civil War Era

Joshua Lynn on Party Realignment as Racial Realignment in the Civil War Era

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In this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies, Joshua Lynn joins Thomas Thurston to discuss the antebellum Democratic Party’s effort to transform itself into a party dedicated to “preserving the white man’s republic.”

Slavery and Its Legacies – Samantha Seeley on Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain in the Early American Republic

Slavery and Its Legacies – Samantha Seeley on Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain in the Early American Republic

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Samantha Seeley joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss her book-in-progress, “Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain in the Early American Republic.”

Slavery and Its Legacies: Manuel Barcia on piracy, the slave trade, and the trial of the Panda

Slavery and Its Legacies: Manuel Barcia on piracy, the slave trade, and the trial of the Panda

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Professor Manuel Barcia joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss an episode covered in his current book project: The Pirates, the Judge, and the Amistad Trial: Or How the Panda Slavers May Have Determined the Fate of the Amistad Africans.