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Escrito por: Briar Goldwyn, Cole Velasquez, Yarelis Gonzales, and Meredith Lochhead En Puerto Rico, isla localizada en el caribe vulnerable a los huracanes y los terremotos, se estima que más de la mitad de la construcción comercial y residencial está construida de manera informal.1 Mientras que la vivienda informalmente construida...

Escrito por: Briar Goldwyn, Cole Velasquez, Yarelis Gonzales, y Polly Murray Cuando comenzamos a estudiar el desempeño de las viviendas informalmente construidas en varios desastres naturales en Puerto Rico, la isla no se había afectado por un fuerte terremoto desde hace más de cien años. Comenzamos nuestro estudio en Julio...

Written by: Briar Goldwyn, Cole Velasquez, Yarelis Gonzales, and Polly Murray When we first set out to study the multi-hazard performance of informally constructed housing in Puerto Rico, the island had not been majorly affected by an earthquake for over 100 years. We began our study in July 2019 by...

Written by: Briar Goldwyn, Cole Velasquez, Yarelis Gonzales, and Meredith Lochhead In Puerto Rico, a U.S. Caribbean island exposed to both hurricanes and earthquakes, it is estimated that over half of all commercial and residential construction is constructed informally. While this informally constructed housing provides housing access for individuals who...

Read full blog post here:​ https://enviroincentives.com/blog/4114/ We have observed a range of approaches used to address problems of coordination and collaboration among WASH stakeholders, donors, and implementers which often differ in the intensity of collaboration. The least intensive collaborations are informative platforms that simply improve the availability of information. Slightly...

You can’t do it alone, and government can’t do it alone. Strengthening a WASH system needs a whole partnership of actors working collectively, but what do partnerships need to work well? These partnerships bring together those that make the system controversial and complex in the first place – the agencies,...

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