Release Date: February 8, 2010 This content is archived. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, University at Buffalo geography students are participating in a global effort to ...
Why Haiti keeps getting hammered by disasters: geography, poverty, poor building standards, bad luck
"It's because they're so vulnerable, any event tips the balance," said Cutter, director of the school's Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. "They don't have the kind of resiliency that other ...
After discussing geography with some of the Haitians in his community, Troy, a US missionary working in rural Haiti, concludes — in what is certainly an over-generalization — that “in the Haitian ...
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