Книга: James Eliscar «Environmental and Natural Disasters in Haiti»
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Производитель: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing" Haiti is a country prone to environmental and natural disasters. Haiti s environmental vulnerability is the result of over-exploitation of natural resources and failures of policies and other reforms. The incapacity, weakness, and to certain extent, unwillingness of the Haitian government; the neglect of civil society; and the unwillingness of the international community to effectively respond and contain the exacerbating problem of environmental degradation and poorly enforced environmental policies have rendered the situation not only a grave concern for Haiti, but also a problem for adjoining nations in the region and beyond with severe implications. In the post-1994 reforms, decentralization of government systems was embraced as a way to redress deficiencies, because by decentralizing government systems, power would no longer be centralized in Republic of Port-au-Prince centralization which was done under the Duvalier regime as means of control and to secure the regime,... ISBN:9783845420868 Издательство: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing" (2011)
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