Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: James Eliscar Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 88 ISBN: 9783845420868
Описание
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,...
