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This report provides a comprehensive evaluation of the transportation sector before and after Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017.
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The authors describe the status of Puerto Rico's communities in terms of population characteristics and dynamics, community and individual preparedness, and economic pressures leading up to the landfalls of the hurricanes.
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As Puerto Rico recovers from Hurricanes Irma and Maria, effective supply-chain management and recovery governance will be vitally important to a successful outcome.
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Drawing on best-practice frameworks, available data, interviews with FEMA and COR3, and case studies, the authors analyze Puerto Rican municipalities' capacity and needs in four key areas: strategy, management, operations, and finance and administration.
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This report describes the work done on estimating the costs of, and identifying potential funding sources for, Puerto Rico’s economic and disaster recovery plan.
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This guide emerges as a response to the need to design community centres with the capacity to face climate, social and economic changes. And at the same time, serve as community educational and socio-economic development centres throughout the year. This

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Cette étude porte sur les changements côtiers et les inondations suite au passage d’un ouragan de catégorie 5 (Irma) les 5 et 6 septembre 2017 sur les îles de Saint-Martin et Saint-Barthélemy aux Antilles. Selon l'étude, les systèmes côtiers ont répondu

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Landslides in Puerto Rico range from nuisances to deadly events. Centuries of agricultural and urban modification of the landscape have perturbed many already unstable hillsides on the tropical island. One of the main triggers of mass wasting on the

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