By: nicole

nicole — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:04:53 +0000

in what university do they offer risk management masters programme.

By: Varadero, Cuba

Varadero, Cuba — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:43:31 +0000

Please, can you PM me and tell me few more thinks about this, I am really fan of your blog…

By: free_of_charge

free_of_charge — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:40:35 +0000

Nice link between adaptation to environmental disasters and Policy implication! This is big time question to the fact that Why Western Country do not use Cuba system… Mummmm, let’s see… Why Cuba developed this system? They are yes in a socialist system but they are also isolated from the rest of the world. I am not a Cuba specialist but I think that Cubans have limited natural resource (as everyone else) and therefore they have to protect their land and people in order to survive. I think Venezuela and Cuba do some commercial trade but I don’t know at which extent (Gaz, I presume)… My point is: Did they develop this meteorological system because they have to protect their isolated environment? If no protection, then agriculture, forest, fisheries facilities are destroyed and therefore people are suffering from it (famine). What drive the development of meteorological system? It’s hard to determine… I am not 100% sure that the Cuban system is superior because of the political system (as suggested by Lino Naranjo Diaz from University of Santiago de Compostela). It may help yes (long term thinking), but I think the combination of the embargo and the permanent military aggression risk from United States really helped Cuba to be “independent” and resolved their own issues. The example of hurricanes appears to be very good… Well, it demonstrated that for hurricane protection, we should take advantage of Cuba… However, this was a “good” example… In a socialism environment, you don’t have the rights to give your opinion… If you or group thing that the socialist government goes in the wrong direction, you cannot tell them that they are wrong… You just can’t… We don’t have bad examples here, but I’m sure bad examples exist. We can seriously take this example (Hurricane research) as a very example of Hazard risk adaptation for us but how could it be achieved? Wow, this is very difficult to say… One thing I am sure is the fact that the mountain is high and very steep. One step at a time…

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