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$200 million in gold extracted in Amazon mine through illegal licenses

Hyury Potter

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Esri

ADVANCING DISASTER RISK REDUCTION MEASURES AGAINST NATURAL DISASTERS, INCLUDING CLIMATE EXTREME EVENTS IN GRENADA, HAITI AND ST. LUCIA

FAO, FAO

Alert and Ongoing Disasters

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

ArcGIS Living Atlas - Indicators of the Planet

Esri

Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM): Management and Socioenvironmental Impacts in the Northen Amazon of Ecuador

Carlos Mestanza-Ramon, University of Calabria
Demmy Mora-Silva, Green Amazon Research Center
Giovanni D'Orio, University of Calabria
Enrique Tapia-Segarra, Escuela Superior Politecnica de Chimborazo

Ayiti-Séisme

Ayiti-Séisme

CDEMA Haiti Earthquake No. 3

CDEMA

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

International Convention

Cumulative Exposure to Climate Change

Esri

Direct Relief's Hurricane Prep Program

Direct Relief

Earthquake Geospatial Data Dataverse

Center for Geographic Analysis

Earthquake Info

Esri

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Esri

Esri 2020 Land Cover Downloader

Esri

Esri Disaster Response Program: Earthquakes

Esri

Exploring the Impact of Crisis and Trauma on the Mental Health and Psychological Well-Being of University Students in Northern Haiti

Michael Galvin
Guesly Michel
Henri Claude Saintelmond
Carolyn Lesorogol

Global Active Earthquake Faults

Esri

Global Forest Watch Forest and Land Cover Change

Global Forest Watch

Guided by Experience/ A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Military Responses to Natural Disasters in Haiti (2010 and 2021)

Christopher Davis

Haiti - Landslide Susceptibility

Esri

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USAID

Haiti Earthquake Multimedia

New York Times

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USGS

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Esri

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The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

Haiti Hazards

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Haiti – Complex Emergency

USAID, USAID

HUMANITARIAN ACTION FACT SHEET May 2018

UNFPA, UNFPA

Hurricane Aware

Esri

Hurricane Matthew - Haiti Disaster Reporting System

The Rotary Club of Petion-Ville, Haiti

Hurricanes and Tropical Cyclones Overview

Esri

INTERNATIONAL (HUMANITARIAN) AID FOR HAITI: The failure of “International (Humanitarian) Aid for Haiti” before and after the earthquake of 2010

Nils Mevenkamp
Martin Schmid

IPC Acute Food Insecurity Snapshot | August 2023 - June 2024

IPC, IPC

Live Feeds from ESRI's Living Atlas: Earthquakes

Esri

Local incentives and national tax evasion: The response of illegal mining to a tax reform in Colombia

Santiago Saavedra, Universidad del Rosario
Mauricio Romero

M 7.2 - Nippes, Haiti

USGS

M 7.2 Nippes Earthquake, 14 August 2021 (Haiti)

USGS

Major Earthquakes

Maps.com

Mapping Global Air Quality

Esri

Missing Maps, Haiti

Orla McManus
Esri Ireland

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NOAA

One year after devastating earthquake, more than 250,000 children in southwest Haiti do not have access to adequate schools

UNICEF, UNICEF

OpenStreetMap Land use Areas for Central America

Esri

Participación de las Fuerzas Armadas en la seguridad ambiental. Caso Perú – Ecuador. 2018-2019

Ana Franzua Rugel Oyola, CAEN

Recent Earthquakes

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Recent Hurricanes, Cyclones and Typhoons (Current Year) - Web App

Esri

Recent USGS Earthquakes

USGS

Recent USGS Earthquakes

USGS

Roots for Peace: Uncovering Climate Security Challenges in Haiti and What to Do About Them

Beatrice Mosello
Nina Schmelzer

The Dark Side of Judicialization: Criminalizing Mining Protests in Peru

Angela Lindt

The past, present and future of Haiti as a post-colonial, post-conflict and post-disaster destination

Hugues Seraphin

Tropical Cyclone Wind Exposure in the United States - Graphics

NOAA

UNITAR: Haiti Maps

United Nations Insitute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

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United Nations

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UNOSAT

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Esri
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USGS

2010
Friday, January 1st
12:00 AM

Assessing the Damage in Haiti 2010

New York Times

2011
Saturday, January 1st
12:00 AM

Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon: Global Prices, Deforestation, and Mercury Imports

Jennifer J. Swenson
Catherine E. Carter
Jean-Christophe Domec
Cesar I. Delgado

2012
Sunday, January 1st
12:00 AM

Latin America's Mining Boom

Elizabeth Deheza, Tufts University
Ugo Ribet, University of London

2013
Tuesday, January 1st
12:00 AM

Elevated rates of gold mining in the Amazon revealed through high-resolution monitoring

Gregory P. Asner
William Llactayo
Raul Tupayachi
Ernesto Raez Luna

2016
Friday, January 1st
12:00 AM

Chapter 3: Quantifying Illegal Logging and Related Timber Trade

Jianbang Gan, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Paolo Omar Cerutti, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Mauro Masiero, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Davide Pettenella, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Ciénaga de Ayapel, afluente hídrico en aprietos

Carlos Augusto estupiñán Aponte, School of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

The Nexus of Illegal Gold Mining and Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains: Lessons from Latin America

Verite

2017
Sunday, January 1st
12:00 AM

Conflicto y recursos naturales: ¿qué ha dicho la literatura sobre el asunto?

David Monroy Londoño, University of the Andes

"Continuous Improvement" in Illegal Practices in the Peruvian Forest Sector

Center for International Environmental Law

La minería ilegal en las regiones Andina y Pacífica de Colombia

Maria Angelica Nivia Latorre, Militar University of New Granada

Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Laura J. Sonter
Diego Herrera
Damian J. Barrett
Gillian L. Galford

The socioeconomic determinants of legal and illegal smallholder logging: Evidence from the Ecuadorian Amazon

Cristian Vasco, Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador; Department of Forest Resources Management, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Bolier Torres, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Km 2 ½ vía Tena, Puyo, Ecuador
Pablo Pacheco, Center for International Forestry Research(CIFOR), Jalan CIFOR Situ Gede, Bogor Barat 16115, Indonesia
Verena Griess, Department of Forest Resources Management, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

2018
Monday, January 1st
12:00 AM

Developing a disaster risk management index for Latin American countries

Claudio Garuti
Carmen Paz Castro
Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Florida International University

Do treaties matter? Climate change, water variability, and cooperation along transboundary river basins

Shlomi Dinar, Florida International University
David Katz, University of Haifa
Lucia De Stefano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Brian Blankespoor, The World Bank, USA

Emergency decision making for natural disasters: An overview

Lei Zhou, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
Xianhua Wu, Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
Zeshui Xu, Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China
Hamido Fujita, Fac. of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University,

Extreme events in the context of climate change

Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, currently an ARC Future Fellowship, a chief investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, and am a senior lecturer at the School of Science, UNSW Canberra.
Andy Pitman, The University of New South Wales

Illegal logging as a disincentive to the establishment of a sustainable forest sector in the Amazon

Leticia Santos de Lima, Departamento de Engenharia Hidra´ulica e Recursos Hı´dricos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-EnvironmentSystems, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Frank Merry, Conservation Strategy Fund, Washington, D.C., United States of America
Britaldo Soares-Filho, Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Hermann Oliveira Rodrigues, Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

La importancia del abordaje académico de la actividad minera durante el periodo de post-acuerdo

María Alejandra Ramos, University of Rosario
Miguel Matías Cortes Cuenca, University of Rosario

Natural disasters and agricultural protection: A panel data analysis

Jeroen Klomp, Section Economics, Wageningen University
Barry Hoogezand, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

Natural disasters and agricultural protection: A panel data analysis

Jeroen Klomp, Section Economics, Wageningen University
Barry Hoogezand, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

Natural disasters and human capital: The case of Nepal’s earthquake

Jayash Paudel, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Resource Economics
Hanbyul Ryu, University of California, Riverside, Department of Economics, 900 University Ave

Organized Crime and illegal gold mining in Latin America

Eva Brunner, Global Americans
Ricardo Grande, Global Americans

Organized crime and illegal gold mining in Latin America

Eva Brunner
Ricardo Grande

Paradojas de la preservación: Sierra de la Macarena y conflicto armado en Colombia. Análisis de riesgo ambiental en el posconflicto

Yeimy Caterine Daza Hernández, Nueva Granada Military University

Private Sector Study Preparedness for Enhanced Resilience After Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Dominica and the British Virgin Islands

United Nations Office for DisasterRisk Reduction

2019
Tuesday, January 1st
12:00 AM

Abordando el Primer Delito Ambiental: TalaIlegal: Los Seis Momentos Del Crimen

Proetica

Authorized to Steal: Organized Crime Networks Launder Illegal Timber from the Peruvian Amazon

Rolando Navarro Gómez, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)

Child Abuse in Natural Disasters and Conflicts: A Systematic Review

Hamed Seddighi, Student Research Committee, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Ibrahim Salmani, Department of Health in Disaster and Emergency, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Mohhamad Hossein Javadi, Department of Social work, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Saeideh Seddighi, Social Science Department, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

Climate and Security in Latin America and the Caribbean

Igarapé Institute

Climate Change and Human Rights: Contributions by and for Latin America and the Caribbean

United Nations EconomicCommission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Countering China's Efforts toIsolate Taiwan Diplomatically in Latin America and the Caribbean The Role of Development Assistance and Disaster Relief

Scott W. Harold, RAND Corporation
Lyle J. Morris, RAND Corporation
Logan Ma

Evidence for sharp increase in the economic damages of extreme natural disasters

Matteo Coronese, Institute of Economics and EMbeDS–Economics and Management in the Era of Data Science, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa
Francesco Lamperti, Institute of Economics and EMbeDS–Economics and Management in the Era of Data Science, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa; bRFF-CMCC European Institute of Economics and the Environment
Klaus Keller, cDepartment of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University
Francesca Chiaromonte, Institute of Economics and EMbeDS–Economics and Management in the Era of Data Science, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa; dDepartment of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University

Exposure and vulnerability tonatural disasters for world'scities

Danan Gu, Population Division, United NationsDepartment of Economic and Social Affairs

Illegal Selective Logging and Forest Fires in the Northern Brazilian Amazon

Tiago M. Condé, State University of Roraima (UERR), Department of Forest Engineering, 69373-000 Rorainópolis, Brazil; Forest Management Laboratory (LMF), National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), 69060-001 Manaus, Brazil
Niro Higuchi, Forest Management Laboratory (LMF), National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), 69060-001 Manaus, Brazil
Adriano J. N. Lima, Forest Management Laboratory (LMF), National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), 69060-001 Manaus, Brazil

Impact of hurricanes Irma and Maria on the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center initial tsunami warning capability for the Caribbean region

Victor Sardina, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, NOAA, US National Weather Service, Honolulu, Hawaii
David Walsh, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, NOAA, US National Weather Service, Honolulu, Hawaii
Kanoa Koyanagi, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, NOAA, US National Weather Service, Honolulu, Hawaii
Stuart Weinstein, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, NOAA, US National Weather Service, Honolulu, Hawaii

Impact of illegal mining activities on forest ecosystem services: local communities' attitudes and willingness to participate in restoration activities in Ghana

Elizabeth Asantewaa Obeng, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
Kwame Antwi Oduro, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
Beatrice Darko Obiri, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
Haruna Abukari, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana

International Illegal Logging: Background and Issues

Congressional Research Service

Law enforcement and deforestation: Lessons for Indonesia from Brazil

Luca Tacconi, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Rafael J. Rodrigues, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Ahmad Maryudi, Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Gadjah Mada,Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Multiple Impacts of Illegal Logging: A key to Deforestation Over the Globe

Fatima Khalid, Department of Environmental Sciences, BahriaUniversity Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Babar Taj, Department of Chemistry, Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan; Department of Chemistry, University of Malaya, Kualalampur, Malaysia; Department of Chemistry, Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan
Asma Jamil, Department of Environmental Sciences, BahriaUniversity Islamabad, Pakistan
Huda Kamal, Department of Environmental Sciences, Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan

Natural Disasters

Hannah Ritchie, Our World In Data
Max Roser

Natural Disasters and Trade Research Study I

World Trade Organization

Natural Disasters and TradeResearch Study II

Giovanna Adinolfi, Professor of International Law,University of Milan

Peru: Deforestation in Times of Climate Change

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs(IWGIA)

Rainforest Mafias: How Violence and Impunity Fuel Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon

Human Rights Watch

Research trend: Bringing the private to the public: Private actors in timber legality systems

Carolina Serra, Laboratorio de Investigación de Sistemas Ecológicos y Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
Sarah L. Burns, Laboratorio de Investigación de Sistemas Ecológicos y Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

Study on Shock Responsive Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean Summary of key findings and policy recommendations

Rodolfo Beazley, Oxford Policy Management
Ana Solórzano
Valentina Barca

The influence of land tenure and dwelling occupancy on disaster risk reduction. The case of eight informal settlements in six Latin American and Caribbean countries

Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Florida International University
Vicente Sandoval, Florida International University
Meenakshi Jerath, Florida International University

Timber Laundering in Peru: The Mafia in the Middle

James Bargent, InSight Crime

Widespread Deposition in a Coastal Bay Following Three Major 2017 Hurricanes (Irma, Jose, and Maria)

Trevor N. Browning, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
Derek E. Sawyer, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
Gregg R. Brooks, Department of Marine Science, Eckerd College
Rebekka A. Larson, Department of Marine Science, Eckerd College

Friday, February 1st
12:00 AM

Three decades of degradation lead to diminished impacts of severe hurricanes on Caribbean reefs

Peter J. Edmunds, Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, California

Twenty-Five Years (1992–2016) of Global Tsunamis: Statistical and Analytical Overview

Viacheslav K. Gusiakov, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics (ICMMG), Novosibirsk, Russia
Paula K. Dunbar, Cooperative Institute for Research inEnvironmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA; NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Asheville, USA
Nicolas Arcos, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA; NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Asheville, USA

Saturday, June 1st
12:00 AM

Condenando el Bosque: Ilegalidad y falta degobernanza en la Amazonía colombiana

Environmental Investigation Agency

2020
Wednesday, January 1st
12:00 AM

An alternative approach to classify illegal logging: The case in Vietnam

Ngoc Anh Cao
Huu Nam Nguyen

Between Informality and Organized Crime: Criminalization of Small-Scale Mining in the Peruvian Rainforest

Eva Bernett Kempers, University of Antwerp

Climate Change Impacts on Environment: Human Displacement and Social Conflicts in Nigeria

T.E. Olagunju, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Alex Ekwueme Federal University
S.O. Adewoye, Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
A.O. Adewoye, Department of Earth Sciences, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology

Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: The Caribbean

Carlos Fuller, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
Hannah Elisabeth Kurnoth, adelphi
Beatrice Mosello, adelphi

Corruption and environmental crime in Latin America

Jorum Duri, Transparency International

Criminal activity and deforestation in LatinAmerica

Laura Bolton, Institute of Development Studies

Data-driven approach for highlighting priority areas for protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction

Morgan E. Visalli, University of California
Benjamin D. Best, EcoQuants LLC
Reniel B. Cabral, University of California
William W.L. Cheung, University of British Columbia
Nichola A. Clark, University of Wollongong
Cristina Garilao, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung
Kristin Kaschner, Albert-Ludwigs University
Kathleen Kesner-Reyes, International Rice Research Institute
Vicky Q.Y Lam, University of British Columbia
Sara M. Maxwell, University of Washington

DNA from wood - A simple approach facing a challenging matrix - A preliminary study

Renato T. F. Paranaiba, DNA Laboratory, National Institute of Criminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police. SAIS Quadra 7, Lote 23, Brasília, DF, 70610-200, Brazil; Natural Products Laboratory, School of Health Sciences, University of Brasília, 70910-900, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil
Carlos B. V. Carvalho, DNA Laboratory, National Institute of Criminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police. SAIS Quadra 7, Lote 23, Brasília, DF, 70610-200, Brazil
Renata Silva Paiva, DNA Laboratory, National Institute of Criminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police. SAIS Quadra 7, Lote 23, Brasília, DF, 70610-200, Brazil
Bruno Rodrigues Trindade, DNA Laboratory, National Institute of Criminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police. SAIS Quadra 7, Lote 23, Brasília, DF, 70610-200, Brazil

Drug trafficking and illegal gold mining share planes and pilots in the Amazon

Hyury Potter

Effects of illegal logging on Amazonian medium and large-sized terrestrial vertebrates

Elildo A.R. Carvalho Jr., Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Carnívoros, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade; Faculty of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Science
Eloísa N. Mendonça, Reserva Biológica do Gurupi, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade
Alexandre Martins, Projeto Tamanduá
Torbjørn Haugaasen, Faculty of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Environmental Change and Human Migration: Stylized Facts from Puerto Rico and Honduras

David Griffith, Department of Coastal Studies, East Carolina University

Environmental Crime in the Amazon Basin: A Typology for Research, Policy, and Action

Adriana Abdenur, Igarapé Institute
Brodie Ferguson, Igarapé Institute
Ilona Szabo de Carvalho, Igarapé Institute
Melina Risso, Igarapé Institute

Examining the Scale, Impacts of, and Response to, Illegal Logging in the Global Context

Cao Ngoc Anh

From Poverty to Disaster and Back: a Review of the Literature

Stéphane Hallegatte, The World Bank
Adrien Vogt-Schilb, The Inter-American DevelopmentBank
Julie Rozenberg, The World Bank
Mook Bangalore, The World Bank

GameChangers 2019: Illegal Mining, Latin America’s Go-To Criminal Economy

James Bargent
Cat Rainsford

Geointelligence against Illegal Deforestation and Timber Laundering in the Brazilian Amazon

Franco Perazzoni, Social Sustainability and Development (SSD),Universidade Aberta, 1269-001 Lisboa, Portugal; Commissioner of Federal Police, Brasília 70610-902, Brazil
Paula Bacelar-Nicolau, Department of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Aberta, 1269-001 Lisboa, Portugal; Centre for Functional Ecology CEF, Universidade de Coimbra, 3000-453 Coimbra, Portugal
Marco Painho, NOVA Information Management School,Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1070-312 Lisboa, Portugal

Health risk assessment and levels of toxic metals in fishes (Oreochromis noliticus and Clarias anguillaris) from Ankobrah and Pra basins: Impact of illegal mining activities on food safety

Nii Korley Kortei, University of Health and Allied Sciences
Marcus Ekow Heymann, University of Health and Allied Services
Edward Ken Essuman, University of Health and Allied Services
Fidelis Mawunyo Kpodo, University of Health and Allied Services

How Columbia Regulators Became Purveyors of Illegal Wood

Cesar Molinares
Natalia Moreno

How Drug Cartels Moved into Illegal Logging in Mexico

Deborah Bonello

How Will International Migration Policy and Sustainable Development Affect Future Climate-Related Migration?

Robert McLeman, Migration Policy Institute

Illegal Mining, Guerrillas and Disease: The Revolution’s Legacy to the Indigenous Peoples of the Upper Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve in Venezuela ́s Amazonia

SOS Orinoco, SOS Orinoco

Impacts of Natural Disasters on Subjective Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Study of Puerto Rican Fishers’ Perceptions after Hurricanes Irma & Maria

Tarsila Seara, Department of Biology &Environmental Science, University of New Haven, West Haven, Connecticut, USA
Richard Pollnac, Department of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA
Karin Jakubowski, Department of Biology &Environmental Science, University of New Haven, West Haven, Connecticut, USA

Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest

Isabel J. Jones, Hopkins Marine Station, Department of Biology,Stanford University
Andrew J. MacDonald, Department of Biology, Stanford University; Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara; Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Skylar R. Hopkins, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara; Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University
Andrea J. Lund, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University

La mineria ilegal en venezuela esta intensificando la violencia el ecocidio y la corruption. La comunidad internacional debe actuar

Alessandra Pinna, Freedomhouse

Law Enforcement against Illegal Logging According to Law Number 18 of 2013 Concerning Prevention and Eradication of Forest Destruction

Soebagio Boerhan

Mangrove Forests Evolution and Threats in the Caribbean Sea of Colombia

Diego Andrés Villate Daza, Grupo de Investigaciones Marino Costeras GIMAC, Escuela Naval de Suboficiales ARC, Barranquilla 080002, Colombia
Hernando Sánchez Moreno, Laboratorio de Investigación en Microbiología, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla 080002, Colombia
Luana Portz, Department of Civil and Environmental, Universidad De La Costa, Barranquilla 080002, Colombia
Rogério Portantiolo Manzolli, Department of Civil and Environmental, Universidad De La Costa, Barranquilla 080002, Colombia

Operation Mercury and Illegal Mining in Latin America

Chris Riehl, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Panama’s illegal rosewood logging boom from Dalbergia retusa

Ella Vardeman, University of Georgia; City University of New York, Graduate Center; The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), Institute of Economic Botany
Julie Velásquez Runk, University of Georgia; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

Perception of Small-Scale Miners on Interventions to Eradicate Illegal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana

Rejoice Selorm Wireko-Gyebi, University of Energy and Natural
Michael Osei Asibey, Kwame Nkrumah Unversity of Science and Technology
Anne Mette Lykke, Aarhus Univeristy
Owusu Amponsah, Kwame Nkrumah Univeristy of Science and Technology

Peru's Patrones and Their Patrons

James Bargent

Predicción de la Deforestación en Caldas, Colombia: Un Enfoque Sociodemográfico mediante el Uso de Modelos Machine Learning

Alejandra Rivera Basto
Sebastian Pajoy Peña
José John Fredy González Veloza

Six Country Evaluation of Oxfam America's Strengthening Community Preparedness, Rapid Response and Recovery in Asia/Pacific Islands and Central America

Peter Medway, Oxfam America
Iñigo Barrena
Lina Gonzalez, Oxfam America

Social Media Use in Emergency Response to Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review With a Public Health Perspective

Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
Sylvia K. Ofori, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
Lauren C. Bayliss, Department of CommunicationArts, College of Arts and Humanities, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
Jessica S. Schwind, Department of Biostatistics,Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia

State and societal responses to natural disasters in Latin American and Caribbean history

Quinn P. Dauer, School of Social Sciences, Indiana University Southeast

Systematic Review of Displacement and Health Impact From Natural Disasters in Southeast Asia

Subin Jang, University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Minneapolis US
Yuko Ekyalongo, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Hyun kim, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Technology Solutions for Supply Chain Traceability in the Brazilian Amazon: Opportunities for the Financial Sector

Brodie Ferguson, Igarapé Institute
Júlia Sekula, Igarapé Institute
Ilona Szabó, Igarapé Institute

The Dangerous Couple: Illegal Mining and Water Pollution - A Case Study in Fena River in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Albert Ebo Duncan, University of Cape Coast

The dilemma of natural disasters: Impact on economy, fiscal position, and foreign direct investment alongside Belt and Road Initiative countries

Anwar Khan, West Center for Economic Research, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Yang Chenggang, West Center for Economic Research, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Garee Khan, Department of Earth Sciences, Karakurum International University, Gilgit, Pakistan
Faqeer Muhammad, Department of Economics, Karakurum International University, Gilgit, Pakistan

The Diversification of Organized Crime into Gold Mining: Domination, Crime Convergence, and Ecocide in Darién, Colombia

Daan Van Uhm, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University

The effects of natural disasters on international tourism: A global analysis

Jaume Rossell, Departament d’Economia Aplicada, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain; Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University, Australia; Departament of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Susanne Becken, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University, Australia; School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Maria Santana-Gallego, Departament d’Economia Aplicada, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

The enhancementof resilience to disasters and climate change in the Caribbean through the modernizationof the energy sector

Adrián Flores, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Leda Peralta, United Nations EconomicCommission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The influence of land tenure and dwelling occupancy on disaster riskreduction. The case of eight informal settlements in six Latin American and Caribbean countries

Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Florida International University;Disaster Resilience in the Americas Program (DRCAP)
Vincent Sandoval, Florida International University; Disaster Resilience in the Americas Program (DRCAP)
Meenakshi Jerath, Florida International University; Disaster Resilience in the Americas Program (DRCAP)

The Logging Barons of Catacamas, Honduras

Hector Silva Avalos

The Politics of Disaster Risk Governance and Neo-Extractivism in Latin America

Andrés Pereira Covarrubias, Research Center for IntegratedDisaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN), Chile
Emmanuel Raju, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research, University of Copenhagen

The value of secondary use of data generated by non-governmental organisations for disaster risk management research: Evidence from the Caribbean

Jessica Omukuti, Department of Environment andGeography, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, United Kingdom; Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC), University of York, YO10 5DD, York, United Kingdom
Alice Megaw, Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC), University of York, YO10 5DD, York, United Kingdom
Matt Barlow, Department of Politics, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, United Kingdom; Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC), University of York, YO10 5DD, York, United Kingdom
Henrice Altink, Interdisciplinary Global DevelopmentCentre (IGDC), University of York, YO10 5DD, York, United Kingdom; Department of History, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, United Kingdom

Unintended effects of illegal economic activities: Illegal gold mining and malaria

Sandra V. Rozo, USC Marshall School of Business

Use of Eucalyptus DNA profiling in a case of illegal logging

Madeline G. Roman, Department of Forensic Science, Sam HoustonState University, Huntsville, TX, USA
David Gangitano, Department of Forensic Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA
Alejandra Figueroa, Laboratorio de Criminalística Regional Temuco,Policía de Investigaciones de Chile, Región de La Araucanía, Chile
Jaime Solano, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Químicas,Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile

Using Social Work Interventions to Address Climate and Disaster Risks in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lucía M. Vivanco
Andrea A. Villagrán
Víctor R. Martínez

Valuing disaster risk reduction neighborhood interventions in informal settlements of Latin American and the Caribbean

Alejandro Arrieta, Department of Health Policy andManagement, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, UnitedStates of America
Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Extreme Events Institute, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
Meenakshi Chabba, Extreme Events Institute, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
Weiwei Chen, Department of Economics,Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Kennesaw State University,Kennesaw, Georgia, United States of America

Venezuela: Violent Abuses in Illegal Gold Mines

Human Rights Watch

Saturday, February 1st
12:00 AM

Internal Displacement Due to Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga, División de Estudios de Postgrado, Universidad de La Sierra Sur, 70800 Oaxaca, Mexico
Javiera Fanta Garrido, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani (UBA-CONICET), 1114 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Thursday, October 1st
12:00 AM

Disasters and Loss of Life: NewEvidence on the Effect of Disaster Risk Management Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Roberto Guerrero Compeán, Economist, Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank
Sergio Lacambra Ayuso, Principal Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank

Sunday, November 1st
12:00 AM

Extreme Natural Events Mitigation: An Analysis of the National Disaster Funds in Latin America

Claudio Fabian Szlafsztein, Center for Higher Amazonian Studies (NAEA), Federal University of Para, Belem, Brazil

2021
Friday, January 1st
12:00 AM

2021 Preliminary Satellite derived Floods Assessment: Haiti

UNITAR
UNOSAT

A Comparative Study of Mining Control in Latin America

Alby Aguilar-Pesantes
Elizabeth Pena Carpio
Tomas Vitar
Ronald Koepke

A Hybrid Approach of Machine Learning and Lexicons to Sentiment Analysis: Enhanced Insights from Twitter Data of Natural Disasters

Shalak Mendon, Wipro Limited, Electronic City, Bengaluru
Pankaj Dutta, SJM School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Abhishek Behl, SJM School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Stefan Lessmann, Chair of Information Systems, School of Business and Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Analysis of risk and disaster reduction strategies in South American countries

Juan C. Marcillo-Delgado, Doctoral Programme in Sustainability, Department of Project and Construction Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
A. Alvarez-Garcia, Unitat de Trauma, Crisis i Conflictes de Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Agueda García-Carrillo, Doctoral Programme in Sustainability, Department of Project and Construction Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain

Assessing potential health effect of lead and mercury and the impact of illegal mining activities in the Bonsa river, Tarkwa Nsuaem, Ghana

Abena Obiri-Yeboah PhD, Kumasi Technical University
Emmanuel Kwesi Nyantakyi, University fo Energy and Natural
Abdul Rahim Mohammed BSc, University of Energy and Natural
Saeed Ibn Idris Kofi Yeboah MSc, University of Energy and Natural

CDEMA Haiti Earthquake No. 10

CDEMA

CDEMA Haiti Earthquake No. 11

CDEMA

CDEMA Haiti Earthquake No. 12

CDEMA

CDEMA Haiti Earthquake No. 2

CDEMA

CDEMA Haiti Earthquake No. 4

CDEMA

CDEMA Haiti Earthquake No. 5

CDEMA

CDEMA Haiti Earthquake No. 6

CDEMA

CDEMA Haiti Earthquake No. 7

CDEMA

CDEMA Haiti Earthquake No. 8

CDEMA

CDEMA Haiti Earthquake No. 9

CDEMA

Development of a Mobile Hospital for Disaster Relief

Neely Robyn, Associate Vice President/Chief Nurse Executive
Kristy Haynes, Atrium Health; Manager of Operations
Greg Miller, Director of Clinical Services

Disaster mitigation and its strategies in a global context - a state of the art

Pala Gireesh Kumar, Department of Civil Engineering,Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women (Autonomous), Bhimavaram 534202, Andhra Pradesh, India
V. Tejaswini, CGARD, NIRDPR, Hyderabad, India
P. Kesava Rao, CGARD, NIRDPR, Hyderabad, India
G. Jaya Shankar, Department of GeoEngineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India

Disaster Mitigation Under Complex Contingencies: Risk Management Outline for a Connected World

Jan Folkmann Wright, Oslo Metropolitan University

Drought management in rural areas with emphasis on resilience approach, studied in Kangavar city

Ahmad Malekan
fazileh ِ Dadvarkhani
alireza darban astane

Examining the Educational Spillover Effects of Severe Natural Disasters: The Case of Hurricane Maria

Umut Özek

Financial Flows and Payment Mechanisms: Behind Wildlife and Forest Crime - Chapter 7: The Rosewood Trade

TRAFFIC

Framing Illegal Logging and its Governance Responses in Brazil - A Structured Review of Diagnosis and Prognosis

Daniela Kleinschmit

Framing Illegal Logging and Its Governance Responses in Brazil – A Structured Review of Diagnosis and Prognosis

Daniela Kleinschmit, University of Freiburg
Rafaella Ferraz Ziegert, University of Freiburg
Laura Walther, University of Freiburg

GDIS, a global dataset of geocoded disaster locations

Elisabeth L. Rosvold, Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Halvard Buhaug, Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO, Oslo, Norway Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU

Global Shelter Cluster

Global Shelter Cluster

Haiti Earthquake: USAID Fact Sheet #6

USAID

Haiti Facts & Figures

EU European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Operations

Haiti: Crisis update August 18, 201

Medecins Sans Frontieres

Haiti: Earthquake Situation Report No. 1

OCHA

History, Current Situation and Challenges of Gold Mining In Ecuador's Litoral Region

Carlos Mestanza-Ramon, University of Calabria, Escuela Superior Politencia de Chimborazo
Selene Paz-Mena, Green Amazon, Research Center
Carlos Lopez-Paredes, Escuela Superior Politecnica de Chimborazo
Mirian Jimenez-Guiterrez, Escuela Superior Politecnica de Chimborazo

Home seismometers provide crucial data on Haiti’s quake

Alexandra Witze

Identifying the influence of natural disasters on technological innovation

Yin-E chen, School of Economics and Management, Changsha University of Science and Technology
Chunyan Li, School of Economics and Management, Changsha University of Science and Technology
Chun-Ping Chang, Department of Marketing Management, Shih Chien University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Mingbo Zheng, School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University

Illegal Logging and Associated Trade in Myanmar: Impacts of Government Measures to Address Illegal Logging

Forest Trends

Illegal logging, governance effectiveness and carbon dioxide emission in the timber‑producing countries of Congo Basin and Asia

Serge Mandiefe Piabuo, World Agroforestry Centre, Yaounde, Cameroon; Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Peter A. Minang, World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
Chupezi Julius Tieguhong, African Development Bank, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Divine Foundjem‑Tita, World Agroforestry Centre, Yaounde, Cameroon

Institutional quality, economic development and illegal logging: a quantitative cross-national analysis

Matthias Boesch, Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics

Latin American and Caribbean Forests in the 2020s: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

Dan Nepstad, Earth Innovation Institute in San Francisco,California
Carlos A. Nobre, University of São Paulo’s Institute for Advanced Studies in São Paulo, Brazil; Project Amazonia 4.0
Brent Sohngen, Department of Agricultural, Environmental andDevelopment Economics at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio
Simone Carolina Bauch, Independent consultant, Brasilia, Brazil

Latin American Weekly Report: Devastating earthquake compounds woes

Latin News

Mining threatens isolated indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon

Sara Villén-Pérez, Global Change Ecology and Evolution Research Group
Luisa Anaya-Valenzuela, Universidad de Alcalá
Denis Conrado da Cruz, Universidad de Alcalá
Philip M. Fearnside, National Institute for Research in Amazonia

Modeling Illegal Logging in Brazil

Bohan Chen, UCLA Department of Mathematics
Kaiyan Peng, UCLA Department of Mathematics
Christian Parkinson, UCLA Department of Mathematics
Andrea L. Bertozzi, UCLA Department of Mathematics,

Natural Disasters: Exposure and Underinsurance

Céline Grislain-Letrémy, CREST and Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University.

Pre-disaster assessment of flood risk for mid Central Vietnam

Huong Thi Lan Huynh, Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change
Hien Xuan Nguyen, Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change
Thuy Thi Ngo, Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change
Hang Thi Van, Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change

Preventing illegal logging

Sarah T. Thompson, Rutgers Newark University
William B. McGrath, World Bank

Productivity, Efficiency and Logistics Performance Assessment of Humanitarian Relief Organizations

İbrahim Akben, Hasan Kalyoncu Üniversitesi, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Uluslararası Ticaret ve Lojistik Bölümü, Gaziantep, Türkiye
Orhan TAŞDOĞAN, Sığınmacılar ve Göçmenlerle Dayanışma Derneği, İzmir, Türkiye

Protecting our fisheries: Working towards a common future

Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Risk Analysis of Regions with Suspicious Illegal Logging and Their Trade Flows

Jiunn-Cheng Lin, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Council ofAgriculture
Jun-Yen Lee, Department of Bio-Industry and Agribusiness Administration, National Chiayi University, Chiayi 600, Taiwan
Wan-Yu Liu, Department of Forestry, National Chung HsingUniversity, Taichung 402, Taiwan; Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture, National Chung Hsing University,Taichung 402, Taiwan

Scalar politics and black markets: The political ecology of illegal rosewood logging in Ghana

Moses Mosonsieyiri Kansang, Department of Geography, George Washington University, 2036 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20052, United States
Dinko Hanaan Dinko, Department of Geography & the Environment, University of Denver, 2050 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, United States
Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Department of Geography & the Environment, University of Denver, 2050 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, United States
Godwin Arku, Department of Geography, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada

Shelter from the Storm:Policy Options to Address Climate InducedDisplacement from the Northern Triangle

University Network of Human Rights

Taiga King

Earth Sight

Temporal and Spatial Evolution and Influencing Factors of Public Sentiment in Natural Disasters—A Case Study of Typhoon Haiyan

Ting Zhang, Faculty of Geographical Science, Center for Geodata and Analysis, Beijing Normal University
Dr. Changxiu Cheng, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University

The law is spider's web: An assessment of illegal deforestation in the Argentine Dry Chaco ten years after the enactment of the “Forest Law”

M. Vallejos, Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos ySistemas de Información, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, INIA La Estanzuela. Ruta 50 Km 11, Colonia, Uruguay
G. H. Camba Sans, Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a La Agricultura, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Argentina
S. Aguiar, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas yEcológicas Vinculadas a La Agricultura, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Argentina; Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
M. E. Mastrangelo, Grupo de Estudio de Ecosistemas y Paisajes Rurales, Universidad Nacional de Mar Del Plata, CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Mar Del Plata, Argentina

The outbreak of illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon boosts deforestation

Juliana Siqueria-Gay, University of Sao Paulo
Luis E. Sanchez, Univeristy of Sao Paulo

The Roots of Environmental Crime in the Columbian Amazon

InSight Crime

U.S. Government Assistance To Haiti Continues To Reach People Affected By August 14th Earthquake

USAID

¿Usar o Perder Los Bosques? ExtracciónRegulada de Madera y Pérdida de Cobertura Forestal en Mexico

Allen Blackman, Inter-American Development Bank
Laura Villalobos, Inter-American Development Bank

Utilization of the Batch Training Method for Predicting Natural Disasters and Their Impacts

Ni Luh Wiwik Sri Rahayu Ginantra
Mhd Ali Hanafiah
Anjar Wanto, Lecturer of STIKOM Tunas Bangsa, Pematangsiantar, Indonesia
R Winanjaya

2022
Saturday, January 1st
12:00 AM

2022 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Active Fires and Hotspots

ESRI

Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Peru under Climate Impacts Using System Dynamics Modeling

Fatih Aranoglu, Colorado School of Mines
Tulay Flamand, Colorado School of Mines
Hafize Sebnem Duzgun, Colorado School of Mines

Caribbean Environmental Resilience and Disaster Displacement Response Plan 2022 - 2024

International Organization for Migration

Detecting gold mining impacts on insect biodiversity in a tropical mining frontier with SmallSat imagery

Eric Stoll
Anand Roopsind
Gyanpriya Maharaj
Sandra Velazco

Fighting illegal loggers on the Guatemala-Mexico border

Alejandro Melgoza, InSight Crime
Alex Papadovassilakis, InSight Crime

Global mining footprint mapped from high-resolution satellite imagery

Liang Tang
Tim T. Werner

Gold Mining in the Amazon Region of Ecuador: History and a Review of Its Socio-Environmental Impacts

Carlos Mestanza-Ramón
Jefferson Cuenca-Cumbicus
Giovanni D’Orio
Jeniffer Flores-Toala

Haiti: Earthquake -12-month Operation Update, Emergency Appeal №: MDRHT018

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies

Hurricane Ian Response: Resident Coordinator's Office Situation Report No. 04 (29 September 2022)

UNCT CUBA

Illegal Mining Set Up Air Bases in the Jungle

Joseph Poliszuk
María Antonieta Segovia
María de los Ángeles Ramírez

Napa Gold Rush: Perceptions of Environmental and Social Change

Luis Garcia Falcon, Florida International University

Real-time evaluation of UNICEF’s response to the Haiti earthquake of 2021 Evaluation Report, 29 September 2022

Groupe Urgence - Réhabilitation - Développement

2023
Sunday, January 1st
12:00 AM

2023 HAITI FRAGILITY BRIEF

Jérémy Cotton
Mark Hammel
Luna Noofoory

A closer look into Colombia's Illegal, Artisanal and Small Scale Mining

Ryan C. Berg, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Henry Ziemer
Adrianna Kohan

AMAZON OBSERVATORY

Barbara Fraser

Beneath The Surface of Illegal Gold Mining in the Amazon

Javier Lizcano
Maria Fernanda Ramirez

Brazilian illegal gold miners resilience in French Guiana: The garimpo as an economic and social system

François-Michel Le Tourneau

Can Amazon Countries Save the Rain Forest?

Diana Roy, Council on Foreign Relations

China in South America. Development consequences for Argentina and Brazil

Leandro Marcelo Bona, Université de Genève
Sergio Martín Páez, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Chinese Mining and Indigenous Resistance in Ecuador

Cintia Quiliconi
Pablo Rodriguez Vasco

Chronic aftershocks of an earthquake on the well-being of children in Haiti: violence, psychosocial health and slavery

Jhumka Gupta
Alpna Agrawal

Climate and Security in Latin America and the Caribbean

Igarape Institute, Igarape Institute

Climate Financial Risk Center

Climate Financial Risk Center, Climate Financial Risk Center

Climate justice means having Indigenous peoples at the table

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Combatting Corruption in the Timber trade

National Whistleblower Center, National Whistleblower Center

Criminal Governance and Productive Enclaves of Illegal Mining in Ecuador

Renato Andres Rivera-Rhon, University of Salamanca
Carlos Emilio Bravo-Grijalva

Digging Into a Toxic Trade: Illegal Mining in Amazon Tri-Border Regions

Juan Diego Cardenas

Digging into the Mining Arc

Bram Ebus

Follow the money: how environmental crime is handled by anti-money laundering systems in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru

Igarape Institute, Igarape Institute

Global governance approaches to addressing illegal logging: Uptake and lessons learned

Benjamin Cashore, The Open University

Global mining footprint mapped from high-resolution satellite imagery

Liang Tang
Tim T. Werner

Gold Flows from Venezuela: Supporting due diligence on the production and trade of gold in Venezuela

David Soud Dr
Ian Ralby Dr
Rohini Ralby

Haiti earthquake: Facts, FAQs, and how to help

World Vision, World Vision

Haiti has more forest than previously reported: land change 2000–2015

Ose Pauleus

Haiti's Historical Hazards

Climate Chage Knowledge portal, Climate Chage Knowledge portal

Haiti- Complex Emergency

USAID From the American People, USAID From the American People

Haiti’s path to building resilience to multiple disaster risks in a fragile context

Center for Disaster Philanthropy, Center for Disaster Philanthropy

Human Rights Impacts of Gold Mining in Haiti

OHCHR, OHCHR

Illegal gold miners in French Guinea: a neglected population with poor health

Maylis Douine

Illegal Gold Mining in Peru: A Push Toward Formalization?

Matthew Kleinhenz, Lehigh University

Illegal logging

U.S Customs and Border Protection, U.S Customs and Border Protection

Illegal logging and deforestation

USAID, USAID

Illegal Mining and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from the Colombian Gold Rush (Spanish Article)

Abadia Luz Karime, Banco de la Republica Colombia

ILLEGAL MINING AND TRAFFICKING IN METALS AND MINERALS

United Nations, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Impacts of Illegal Logging Restrictions on China's Forest Products Trade

Alicia Robbins

Inventory of data on economic activity and deforestation in the Amazon Basin

Igarape Institute, Igarape Institute

Investigating Rainforest Destruction: Finding Illegal Airstrips With the Help of Machine Learning

Jelter Meers
Kuek Ser Kuang Keng
Hyury Potter

Lessons learned on managing the interface between large-scale and artisanal and small-scale gold mining

Edward Bickham, World Gold Council

Logging Concessions Enable Illegal Logging Crisis in the Peruvian Amazon

Matt Finer

Mineria Ilegal

RAISG, RAISG

Money laundering and illegal logging

National Whistleblower Center, National Whistleblower Center

Operation mercury: Impacts of national-level armed forces intervention and anticorruption strategy on artisanal gold mining and water quality in the Peruvian Amazon

Evan N. Dethier
Miles R. Silman
Luis E. Fernandez
Jorge Caballero Espejo

Peace and Environmental Protection in Colombia Proposals for Sustainable Rural Development

Lorenzo Morales

Protect forest from industrial logging

National Whistleblower Center, National Whistleblower Center

Reduced Environmental Enforcement Fueled a Vast Network of Crime in the Amazon

Hyury Potter

Regulación jurídica de la actividad minera y los conflictos sociales en la Comunidad Campesina Virgen del Rosario de Pampania, 2022

Luis Alexander TORRES MENDOZA

Responding to illegal mining and trafficking in metals and minerals : A good guide to good legislative practices

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime

Stolen Amazon: the roots of environmental crime in five countries

Igarape Institute, Igarape Institute

Stolen Amazon: The Roots of Environmental Crime in the Tri-Border Regions

Igarape Institute, InSight Crime

Stolen Amzon: The roots of enviromental crime in the tri-border region

Insight Crime, Igarape institute

Technology and State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Illegal Mining in Colombia

Santiago Saavedra, Faculty of Economics

The Chinese Timber Trade and the Logging of Peruvian Amazonia

Louis Putzel

The Companies Accused of Buying Latin America's Gold

Oscar Castilla

“The Situation Will Most Likely Turn Ugly”: Corporate Counter-Insurgency and Sexual Violence at a Canadian-Owned Mine in Guatemala

Simon Granovsky-Larsen

The United States Needs a Shift in Perspective on Mining

Morgan Bazilian, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Simon Lomax, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Tracking Amazon Gold

Charlie Espinosa
Kelsey Beyeler

What came out of the South American summit on protecting the amazon?

Kayan Tara