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Caribbean Multi-Hazards Resilient Construction Strategy The main challenge in achieving resiliency against the impacts of natural hazards (hurricane, floods, tsunami, earthquakes, volcanoes) in the built environment (mainly housing), particularly within a vulnerability risk reduction context and as related to the ultimate goal of strengthening communities’ long-term socio-economic sustainability, is to come up with a comprehensive and operational framework capable of rallying and integrating all the actors and stakeholders of that sector around the common goal of achieving long-term resiliency in that sector, while taking into account the relative interests of each participating group. For the Construction sector, those actors and stakeholders with whom that sustainable framework needs to be established are the following:
The effectiveness of the legal framework and the construction practices prevailing in a country’s building sector fundamentally determine the nature of the synergy existing amongst all the entities involved in that sector, which in turn, directly affect the level of resiliency of the built environment (all things being equal). In that regard, achieving hazard resiliency in home construction appears to be more a public administration/ management issue, than being solely a structural engineering/ technical one, assuming that knowledge of multi-hazards resilient designs and techniques are mastered by the building professionals. |
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