Book
The Storms of 98: Hurricanes Georges and Mitch, Impacts, Institutional Response, and Disaster Politics in Three Countries
(2001)
Abstract
The 1998 Atlantic storm season will be remembered principally for two hurricanes: Georges and Mitcb. Hurricane Georges was a September storm that was especially damaging to the Dominican Republic and then Haiti before making U.S. landfall in Mississippi. Hurricane Mitcb was an October storm that followed an unusual track out of the southwest Caribbean and then over Central America, where it inflicted catastrophic losses, especially in Honduras and Nicaragua. Indeed, Mitcb
has joined that relatively small number of terrible storms whose names have been retired. This study examines the impacts, institutional response, and the "disaster politics" (including media attention) associated with Hurricane Georges in the Dominican Republic and Hurricane Mitcb in Honduras and Nicaragua. A particular focus is the marginalization or "sidelining" of agencies in the three countries that were supposed to be the official response and coordinating organizations.
Keywords
- hurricanes,
- Caribbean,
- Dominican Republic,
- Haiti,
- Mitch,
- Georges
Disciplines
Publication Date
2001
Publisher
University of Colorado Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
Citation Information
Richard S. Olson, Ricardo A. Alvarez, Bruce P. Baird, Amelia Estrada, et al.. The Storms of 98: Hurricanes Georges and Mitch, Impacts, Institutional Response, and Disaster Politics in Three Countries. Boulder, CO(2001) p. 1 - 67 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/juan-sarmiento/39/