The bulletin provides detailed information about the number of lives lost, missing people, injured, dwellings damaged, and critical buildings and structures damaged in Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, and Costa Rica. It also describes the health impacts on each country, and discusses infectious diseases, food availability and consumption, food aid, impacts on basic sanitation, and resources provided by PAHO and others. A table that summarizes rehabilitation and reconstruction needs, and their costs, is also provided. The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. Available from Island Press, Dept.
Society has a limited number of hazard mitigation dollars to invest.
In 1997, the H. John Heinz Center convened a panel of experts to help develop new strategies to identify and reduce the costs of weather-related hazards associated with coastal development. This book presents the findings of that two-year effort. Using Hurricane Hugo, which struck South Carolina in 1989, as a case study, the book provides information on the full range of economic costs of a major coastal disaster, including unreported, undocumented, and hidden costs such as losses due to business interruption, reduction in property values, interruption of social services, psychological trauma, damage to natural systems, and others. The authors recommend a comprehensive framework for developing and implementing community-based hazard mitigation. Hurricane Evacuation Traffic Analysis and Operational Measures .