): www.cdera.org
Disaster management is about life and death. A significant responsibility rests on the shoulders of the disaster manager. A similar responsibility rests with the media, which is one of the crucial communication links between the disaster manager and the general public, particularly during a disaster.
It is against this background that this manual was conceptualised and written in 1995 and again revised in 2004 both in print and also made available via the World Wide Web at http://www.cdera.org/doccentre. Download
This Multi-Hazard Contingency Planning Manual integrates three previously developed documents:
• Hurricane Procedures Manual, 2006 revision, revised by CDERA. November 2006;
• Model Institutional Framework for Disaster Management for the Tourism Sector in Caribbean Countries, prepared
by CDERA, November 2006; and
• Multi-Hazard Plan for Caribbean Tourism, drafted by Criterion Strategies, Inc., January 2007.
While the Institutional Framework and Multi-Hazard Plan (which included the sections on terrorism preparedness and response and the overall recovery section), were developed for this initiative, the Hurricane Procedures Manual was a revision of a document first published in 1990 following Hurricane Hugo. The manual was revised in 1998 to meet the recurring needs of the tourism/hotel sectors for hazard mitigation and published by the CHA and the CTO. The 1998 revision included a chapter on “Structural Vulnerability and Loss-Reduction Techniques,” developed with support from the Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project (CDMP), implemented by the OAS Unit of Sustainable Development and Environment for the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and the Caribbean Regional Program. The 1998 version was designed by Ms. Eleanor Jones from ESL Management Solutions Ltd.
: http://hurricane.terrapin.com/
: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
: http://www.fema.gov/hazard/hurricane/index.shtm
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