The aim of this exploratory paper is to provide some critical perspectives and insights on the role of the private sector in disaster risk reduction, in particular with regards to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the recovery process. The Caribbean countries of the Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, and …
Landslides have large negative economic and societal impacts, including loss of life and damage to infrastructure. Slope stability assessment is a vital tool for landslide risk management, but high levels of uncertainty often challenge its usefulness. Uncertainties are associated with the numerical model used to assess slope stability and its …
SAN JUAN – The government of St. Lucia announced Tuesday the launch of a 10-year plan to regulate the use and conservation of defined forest areas. The key priorities for National Forest Strategy are maintaining healthy ecosystems and species, ensuring sustainable flows of products that support local economies and biodiversity, …
Malcolm Turnbull promises to contribute $1 billion over the next five years to fight climate change and to ratify the second commitment period of the Kyoto protocol. What we learnt at the first week of Paris talks Australia will support the inclusion of a goal of limiting global warming to …
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is providing US$14.8 million to support St Lucia’s efforts to deliver a reliable, climate resilient supply of potable water to the northern districts of the island. It said that the money will be used to fund improvements to the …
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – At least three Eastern Caribbean islands were Thursday rocked by a 4.7 magnitude earthquake. The Seismic Research Centre at the University of the West Indies has confirmed that an earthquake was felt in St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Martinique shortly after 10:00 …
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) -- The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) is urging Caribbean farmers to adopt climate-smart agricultural practices that can help lessen the impacts of climate change. "Climate change has resulted in flooding, landslides, the loss of soil nutrients, and it has a dramatic effect on …
Divers recently filmed a coelacanth fish in St Lucia marine protected area of South Africa. Coelacanths were thought to be extinct for a long time but six of them were spotted in St Lucia last year (see Down To Earth, Vol 9, No 16, January 15, p12). Pieter Venter, one …
W hales and dolphins of St Lucia island are being killed in large numbers, according to the International Whaling Commission ( iwc ). At least 96 dolphins and 65 whales were killed on the island during 1999. "These numbers amount to one of the largest officially recorded inten-tional mammal kills …
