Urban resilience and climate change: learning to live with disasters

The concept of resilience has imposed itself as an effective means to face the growing tendency of occurrence and negative effects of natural disasters in the constructed environment.

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Saharan dust in Cuba: Its impact on the weather, climate and health

For a country like Cuba, located in the Caribbean Sea, leeward of the Sahara – the principal source of the planet’s dust – and frequently hit by tropical cyclones.

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Adaptation, an irreversible need

Climate change affects the entire Caribbean region in terms of the rise in sea level, saline intrusion and drought, researcher Carlos Rodríguez Otero affirms.