scholarly journals The Incredible and Sad Story of Boca de Cachón: How a Rural Community in the Hispaniola Is in a Prolonged, Heartless, and Predictable Climate Crisis

Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Victor Gomez-Valenzuela ◽  
Katerin Ramirez ◽  
Solhanlle Bonilla-Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Rural Environments ◽  
Climatic Scenarios ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Republic

This article aims to briefly review the socio-economic impact caused by the flooding of Lake Enriquillo on the inhabitants of Boca Cachón due to the complex local phenomenon related to climate variability. Between 2003 and 2014, Boca de Cachón and the communities surrounding Lake Enriquillo were deeply affected by flooding of the Lake’s rising waters. Lake Enriquillo is the largest wetland in the Caribbean and the first designated RAMSAR site. In turn, Boca de Cachón could be considered the first human settlement formally displaced because of climate variability in the Dominican Republic and probably one of the first in the Americas in the twenty-first century. Boca de Cachón is a rural Municipal District located to the northwest of the municipality of Jimaní, with a population of around 3000 inhabitants on the southwest border with the Republic of Haiti and located in the Biosphere Reserve Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo. Given the future climatic scenarios for the Dominican Republic and the possible climate change that could exacerbate by excess or, by default, the socio-environmental problems in the Lake’s belt, it is necessary to support the communities in their capacity-building processes. The lessons learned from Boca de Cachón can serve as a learning space for adaptation processes in rural environments in the Caribbean region.

scholarly journals Mental health in the Dominican Republic

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-14
Author(s):  
Miguel R. Hernández ◽  
Tresha Ann Gibbs ◽  
Luisa Gautreaux-Subervi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Pan American ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Health Organization

The Dominican Republic is located in the Caribbean Sea and comprises three-quarters of the island Hispaniola, which it shares with Haiti. According to the 2002 census, approximately 8.5 million people live in the Republic, with 64% residing in urban areas (Oficina Nacional Estadística, n.d.). During 1990 and 2000, the Dominican Republic was a leader in economic development for Latin America and the Caribbean; however, this was not reflected in the areas of human and social development (Pan American Health Organization & World Health Organization, 2007). Less than 1 % of the health budget administered by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (MISPAS) is allocated to mental health and the public system is generally underfunded (Pan American Health Organization & World Health Organization, 2008). However, there is an array of mental health services within the country when privately funded facilities are taken into account.

scholarly journals Identifying Users’ Requirements for Emergency Mapping Team Operations in the Dominican Republic

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Gregorio Rosario Michel ◽  
Santiago Muñoz Tapia ◽  
Fernando Manzano Aybar ◽  
Vladimir Guzmán Javier ◽  
Joep Crompvoets
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Impact

In recent years, a growing number of stakeholders have been taking part in the generation and delivery of geospatial information and services to reduce the impact of severe natural disasters on the communities. This is mainly due to a huge demand for accurate, current and relevant knowledge about the impacted areas for a wide range of applications in risk-informed decision makings. The aim of this paper is to identify users’ requirements for emergency mapping team (EMT) operations in the Dominican Republic (DR). An online survey was applied to collect data from key users involved in the Inter-Institutional Geospatial Information Team in DR. Our findings suggest a set of users’ requirements for EMT operations: (1) standardization; (2) establishing and maintaining a spatial data infrastructure; (3) partnership; (4) effective communication among stakeholders; and (5) capacity building. A better understanding of the users’ requirements and the associated information workflows will lead to a superior level of readiness for EMT operations in DR. This knowledge will support future studies/practices at the local and national levels in the Caribbean region, which share similar challenges in terms of natural hazards and development issues.

Recent U.S. Economic Policies and the Central Caribbean Economies

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Addington Coppin
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Caribbean Basin Initiative ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Trade And Investment

This study examines the trade and investment performances of three economies in the Central Caribbean region since the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) and associated programs. We find that the rapid growth in nontraditional exports from these economies to the United States did not necessarily translate into net foreign exchange earnings. On a per capita basis, export-related investment in Haiti was much lower than in the other two economies — Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. As a percentage of the labor force, gross employment gains for Jamaica have been significantly larger than those in either the Dominican Republic or Haiti. It appears that the policies favoring expansion in the offshore sector may foster employment opportunities of females, especially where traditional sectors are in decline.

scholarly journals Assisted Coral Reproduction in the Dominican Republic: A Successful Story to Replicate in the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita I. Sellares-Blasco ◽  
Maria F. Villalpando ◽  
Sergio D. Guendulain-García ◽  
Aldo Croquer
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Larval Rearing ◽  
Coral Reproduction ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Program Components ◽  
Outcome Performance

Coral assisted fertilization, larval rearing and recruit propagation success in significant ecological scales, largely depend on scaling up and replicating these efforts in as many regions as possible. The Dominican Foundation for Marine Studies (FUNDEMAR) has become a pioneer of these efforts in the Dominican Republic, being the first institution to successfully implement coral sexual reproduction techniques in the country and establishing the first mobile larvae culturing facility. Here we share our perspective on three main components behind the success of FUNDEMAR’s program: (1) a self-sustainable program in alliance with local and international organizations, (2) the design and construction of the first Coral Assisted Reproduction Laboratory in the country, and a (3) clearly defined scalable structure for outcome performance. Two years after program implementation, FUNDEMAR has successfully produced an annual regional coral spawning prediction calendar, cultured seven coral species, and seeded over 4,500 substrates with more than 268,200 sexual coral recruits in approximately 1,880 m2 reef areas. Here, we provide a detailed description of a fully functional assisted coral reproduction program, including the lessons learned during its implementation as well as a series of specific solutions. We hope this work will help and inspire other countries and small institutions to replicate FUNDEMAR’s coral assisted reproduction program components and contribute to the expansion of sexual coral restoration efforts in the Caribbean.

The Caribbean Strong Summit: Building Resilience With Equity

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-157
Author(s):  
Leslie Maas Cortés ◽  
Melanie Z. Rodriguez-Rivera ◽  
James J. James ◽  
José F Cordero
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Future Work

ABSTRACTThe objective of the Caribbean Strong Summit was to plan an intersectoral summit to address the equity of community health and resilience for disaster preparedness, response and recovery and develop a set of integrated and actionable recommendations for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Region post Hurricanes Irma and Maria. A three-day meeting was convened with a wide range of community, organizational and private sector leaders along with representatives from Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, the Americas, and global experts to generate recommendations for enhanced resilience based upon lessons learned and evidence-based approaches. More than 500 participants from the region gave 104 presentations with recommendations for resilience. Over 150 recommendations were generated and ranked for importance and actionability by participants. A representative sample of these are presented along with five major themes for building health resilient communities in the Caribbean. This summit was successful in compiling a set of integrated recommendations from more than 19 diverse sectors and in defining five major thematic areas for future work to enhance resilience for all types of future disasters. A follow-up meeting should be planned to continue this discussion and to showcase work that has been accomplished in these areas. A complete set of the recommendations from the Caribbean Strong Summit and their analysis and compilation would be published and should serve as a foundational effort to enhance preparedness and resiliency towards future disasters in the Caribbean.

scholarly journals The 8th  International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber Saint Domingo, Colonial City, Dominican Republic, 7‒13 April 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-110
Author(s):  
DANY AZAR ◽  
PAUL NASCIMBENE
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Fossil Insects ◽  
Steven Spielberg ◽  
The Public ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
Fossil Resins

Palaeoentomology started in the Eighteenth century with published papers on the curiosities of insects preserved in fossil resins, specifically in Baltic amber. The beginning of the Nineteenth century witnessed the first attempts to study and describe insects from sedimentary rocks. This discipline then developed during the latter Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, and resulted in some major published works and reviews. The last century was a period of relatively slow but continual development in this field of science. During the past three decades, palaeoentomology has grown significantly and exponentially in parallel to the increasing number of amber outcrops, due to international interest and the growth of scientific awareness in this subject. There is no doubt that the 1993 blockbuster film “Jurassic Park,” directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the eponymous novel of Michael Crichton, captured the public imagination with the idea of insects in amber and a fascination with ancient life, and probably was a contributing factor in the quest to find new amber deposits. Prior to this time, interest in amber had been primarily focused on the Caribbean region (the Dominican Republic), and the Baltic countries, although it was recognized that amber occurs in various localities world-wide (Azar et al., 2018).

Nuptiality and fertility in the Dominican Republic

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Edward Ebanks ◽  
Edilberto Loaiza
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Consistent Pattern ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Early Childbearing ◽  
Live Births ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Cumulative Fertility ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Consensual Unions

SummaryWomen in marital unions had more live births than those in consensual unions. The relationship between cumulative fertility and the number of fertile sexual unions is positive for the early childbearing years and negative for the later ones. There is no consistent pattern of relationship between fertility and the sociocultural independent variables for different subgroups according to nuptiality pattern. The relationship between fertility and nuptiality in the Dominican Republic is consistent with that for the Caribbean region.

Of peasants, plantations, and immigrant proletarians

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-99
Author(s):  
Samuel Martí­nez
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Haitian Immigrants ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
Foreign Labor ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Caribbean

[First paragraph]Dominican Sugar Plantations: Production and Foreign Labor Integration. MARTIN F. MURPHY. New York: Praeger, 1991. xii + 186 pp. (Cloth US$49.95)Peasants in Distress: Poverty and Unemployment in the Dominican Republic. ROSEMARY VARGAS-LUNDIUS. Boulder CO: Westview 1991. xxi + 387 pp. (Paper US$ 32.95)Few other places in the Caribbean region have as great a potential for international conflict as the island of Hispaniola. The historical antagonism between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is no doubt known to readers of this journal, as is the recent upsurge in tension between the two countries, which culminated in the expulsion of tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants from the Dominican Republic, from June to September 1991. The quickening pace of events, added to the worsening spiral of economic hardship gripping both nations, threaten to render obsolete even the most recent analyses of relations between the two countries. Even so, against the background of an increasingly acrimonious debate between the Dominican government and international human rights organizations accusing it of enslaving Haitian immigrants in the cane flelds, the appearance of two works by long-time students of the migration of Haitians as cane workers to the Dominican Republic is particularly timely.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned From the Implementation of HIV Biological-Behavioral Surveys of Key Populations in the Caribbean

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 528-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyson Volkmann ◽  
Martine Chase ◽  
Ann M. Lockard ◽  
Deborah Henningham ◽  
Rachel Albalak
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Hiv Prevalence ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Emergency Plan ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Nationally Representative

In the Caribbean region, HIV prevalence is high among key population (KP) groups, such as sex workers and men who have sex with men. However, there is a lack of high-quality, population-level data estimating HIV prevalence and population sizes of KPs. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has funded and completed five bio-behavioral surveillance (BBS) surveys using respondent-driven sampling methodology to target KP in the English-speaking Caribbean region. We describe the experience of implementing bio-behavioral surveys in the Caribbean region and document the context, processes, successes, and challenges, and make recommendations for future survey implementation. Successes include the provision of estimates of nationally representative HIV data and KP size estimates to improve HIV programming and provision of tools for routinization of BBS. Challenges include small KP sizes, the legal context, and the cost and speed of implementation. Future bio-behavioral surveys should include well-planned formative assessments and stakeholder involvement.

scholarly journals Cases of chikungunya virus infection in travellers returning to Spain from Haiti or Dominican Republic, April-June 2014

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (28) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Requena-Méndez ◽  
C García ◽  
E Aldasoro ◽  
J A Vicente ◽  
M J Martínez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virus Infection ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Central America ◽  
Aedes Albopictus ◽  
Chikungunya Virus ◽  
Febrile Illness ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Autochthonous Transmission

Ten cases of chikungunya were diagnosed in Spanish travellers returning from Haiti (n=2), the Dominican Republic (n=7) or from both countries (n=1) between April and June 2014. These cases remind clinicians to consider chikungunya in European travellers presenting with febrile illness and arthralgia, who are returning from the Caribbean region and Central America, particularly from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The presence of Aedes albopictus together with viraemic patients could potentially lead to autochthonous transmission of chikungunya virus in southern Europe.

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