http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/12/16/the-caribbeans-growing-disaster-hotspots/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/12/16/the-caribbeans-growing-disaster-hotspots/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:07:39 +0000 Kevin Krajick http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=9754 The 125 million people of the Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico region are highly exposed to hurricanes, floods and landslides–and it is not only because of bad weather. Increasing numbers of the poor are crowding into confined areas that are most prone to destruction–low-lying flood plains, too-steep hillsides, and the like. Robert Chen, director of the Center for International Earth [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/12/16/the-caribbeans-growing-disaster-hotspots/feed/ 1