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Disaster Recovery, Social Inequity, and Increased Vulnerability
- Policy analysts warn against poorly planned disaster recovery efforts that can actually exacerbate resource degradation and perpetuate social inequities. "The past 40 days have seen two major earthquakes in Mexico, three hurricanes striking the Caribbean and the southern United States, and floods across Bangladesh, India and Nepal. Rebuilding efforts will take years. If things go as usual, these could leave the worst off relatively worse off and the environment more vulnerable."- Excerpt from Nature. Examples of these emergency response techniques include constructing seawalls, weakening hazardous waste regulations, and racing to increase tourism opportunities through destructive coastal development in important habitats like mangroves and wetlands.
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