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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

In Haiti, a third of the population lacks secure access to food. A changing situation The eminent anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith argued [vi] that in Haiti colonialism has left an enduring legacy of vulnerability to disasters. Nowhere more than in Haiti has disaster been made inevitable by the nexus of poverty and vulnerability.