Typically, Disaster Risk Management (DRM) agencies assume that vulnerable populations will act on informational advisories, internalizing messaging accordingly to secure their safety. They assume that once appropriate information is received that people will behave in the way advised. This isn’t always the case. The sheer divergence of personal risk management behaviors … [Read more...] about Making better messages: Can behavioral design improve disaster risk communications?
Yuri Chakalall
Yuri Chakalall is an International Development Professional with twenty-eight years of combined experience in coastal resources management, environmental planning, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and humanitarian assistance. Yuri’s resilience-focused, interdisciplinary experience has been gained from field level implementation to senior level management of development initiatives spanning the public, private, civil society and multilateral development finance sectors throughout the Caribbean. His work in resilience includes advising on and advocating for disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change adaptation (CCA) policies and developing sector studies and frameworks that are in use today by Caribbean governments and regional bodies. Over his career to date, he has a served as: Disaster Risk Management Specialist with the InterAmerican and Caribbean Development, Banks; a disaster reduction advisor for UNDP in Nepal; a senior Development officer with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); Regional Director of Smith Warner International and Coastal Planner for Barbados. Currently he is Director and Lead Consultant for Resilience & Sustainability Caribbean Advisors (RASCA) LLC. Mr. Chakalall is a graduate of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and a postgraduate of the Marine Resource & Environmental Management Programme, Centre for Resource Management & Environmental Studies (CERMES), University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. He completed his studies in humanitarian assistance, at the Center for International Cooperation in Health, at Fordham University, in New York.
Protecting Tourism in the Caribbean through Smarter Crisis Management and Response Systems
When natural disasters strike, there are obvious immediate impacts. But long after the attention of the world shifts elsewhere, the effects of disasters like hurricanes, continue to negatively impact the growth and sustainability of Caribbean countries.One of the sectors that suffers the most is Tourism, which in many cases relies on physical attractiveness and the availability … [Read more...] about Protecting Tourism in the Caribbean through Smarter Crisis Management and Response Systems