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== INDIVIDUAL RESILIENCE ==
== INDIVIDUAL RESILIENCE ==
The first level in SCIM's frameworks is "keep people alive".  "Critical infrastructure" at this level is what's between us and the universe, that brings us what we need (and takes away what's bad for us) so that we'll live another day.  In acute or chronic catastrophes, people die from being "too hot" or "too cold", from "hunger" or "thirst", from "disease" or "injury".  "Death for some" is an indicator of "life is bad for many".


=== Too hot and Too cold: shelter ===
=== Too hot and Too cold: shelter ===


As we write this page, Haiti's capital has a temperature between 17ºC and 31ºC.  So "too cold" and "too hot" is most likely not an issue, at least for most people.
* How much of a problem is it?
 
** As we write this page, Haiti's capital has a temperature between 17ºC and 31ºC.  So "too cold" and "too hot" is most likely not an issue, at least for most people. ((Please challenge this assessment if it's wrong.))
* Causes and on-the-ground assessment:
** Hard information needed:
** Temperature not an issue except for infants?
*** Temperature an issue for infants, elderly and generally frail?
** Certain regions?
*** Temperature an issue in certain regions?
** Weather maps?
*** Good weather maps?
* Existing resources:
** Plywood, housing, schools, etc
* Infrastructure solutions:
* Infrastructure solutions:
** http://hexayurt.com
** http://hexayurt.com
** Stoves
** Stoves
** Blankets etc
** ...
** ...


=== Hunger and Thirst: supplies ===
=== Hunger and Thirst: supplies ===


* Causes and on-the-ground assessment (how much of a problem it really is):
*How much of a problem is it?
** ...
** Clean water seems to be a big problem, both in pre-earthquake Haiti and even more so now, and probably in the future.
** Rainfall: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT003200
** ((food?))
 
* Existing resources:
Haiti's capital has a temperature today between 17ºC and 31ºC, with a dew point of 20ºC, so waterstills will work at least part of the night.  http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/78439.html
** Water collection
 
*** Rivers etc
Water organisations (google "haiti water"):
*** Roofs
* http://www.haitiwater.org/
*** Swimming pools
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Haiti
** Water organisations (google "haiti water"):
* http://www.cleanwaterforhaiti.org/
*** Rainfall: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT003200
 
*** http://www.haitiwater.org/
*** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Haiti
*** http://www.cleanwaterforhaiti.org/
* Infrastructure solutions:
* Infrastructure solutions:
** http://akvo.org/wiki
** http://akvo.org/wiki
** "now" ideas http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gleick/detail?blogid=104&entry_id=55235
** "now" ideas http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gleick/detail?blogid=104&entry_id=55235
** Haiti's capital has a temperature today between 17ºC and 31ºC, with a dew point of 20ºC, so waterstills will work at least part of the night.  http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/78439.html
** Amy Smith's work for heating with agricultural briquettes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqI63IEg3MM video]
** Amy Smith's work for heating with agricultural briquettes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqI63IEg3MM video]
** Cooking: [[Corn Cob Charcoal Crusher]]
** Cooking: [[Corn Cob Charcoal Crusher]]
** Farming: [[Plough construction manual]], [[Rice husker construction manual]]
** Farming: [[Plough construction manual]], [[Rice husker construction manual]]
** Equipement: [[Wheelbarrow construction manual]]
** Equipement: [[Wheelbarrow construction manual]]
** ...


=== Disease and Injury: safety ===
=== Disease and Injury: safety ===

Revision as of 10:47, 15 January 2010

Aims

It's mostly folks on the ground who can look at local needs and resources. Appropedia can help by providing links to specific technologies, "appropriate" in the sense that they can be built with local resources and other resources that may be brought in with relative ease, and used to help with local needs. We all learn as we go along.

This page was initially based on Haiti earthquake assistance project by Bart Orlando, and later revamped by Lucas Gonzalez using the SCIM (simple critical infrastructure mapping) framework developed by Vinay Gupta et al, and detailed also in a STAR–TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed Populations with Distributed Talent (#70 of Defense Horizons).

Please give us some time to flesh it out a bit, and comment in the talk page. Thanks!

SITUATION OVERVIEW

Haiti, with 10 million people and a history of poverty, was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010, at 21:53 UTC (4:53 pm local time). It was the country's most severe earthquake in over 200 years.

The damaged area is home to 3 million people. The death toll will be hard to determine, but is said to be "more than 100,000 deaths", which would be roughly more than 3% of the directly affected area's population. The number of injured, orphans etc is most likely very high ((estimates?)). The whole country is affected either directly or indirectly.

This hits an area where ... ((fill in with data about people's age and previous health, weather, food, infrastructure, organisations, economy - some is to be stolen from crisiscommons's link below))

Real-time consequences are being followed here: http://haiti.ushahidi.com

Longer term consequences are to be expected:

  • ...
  • George Mason University economics chair Tyler Cowen has speculated that the earthquake has effectively ended the nation-state of Haiti. [1]

Some other reports are:

The response from the wikis has started:

INDIVIDUAL RESILIENCE

The first level in SCIM's frameworks is "keep people alive". "Critical infrastructure" at this level is what's between us and the universe, that brings us what we need (and takes away what's bad for us) so that we'll live another day. In acute or chronic catastrophes, people die from being "too hot" or "too cold", from "hunger" or "thirst", from "disease" or "injury". "Death for some" is an indicator of "life is bad for many".

Too hot and Too cold: shelter

  • How much of a problem is it?
    • As we write this page, Haiti's capital has a temperature between 17ºC and 31ºC. So "too cold" and "too hot" is most likely not an issue, at least for most people. ((Please challenge this assessment if it's wrong.))
    • Hard information needed:
      • Temperature an issue for infants, elderly and generally frail?
      • Temperature an issue in certain regions?
      • Good weather maps?
  • Existing resources:
    • Plywood, housing, schools, etc
  • Infrastructure solutions:

Hunger and Thirst: supplies

Disease and Injury: safety

  • Causes and on-the-ground assessment (how much of a problem it really is):
    • Earthquake itself, but also
    • Bad roads
    • Violence
    • Bad water
  • Infrastructure solutions:
    • ...

GROUPS' RESILIENCE

Examples of groups

Communications

Space

Transportation

Resource control

ORGANISATIONS' RESILIENCE

Shared map

Shared plan

Shared succession model

NATION-STATE RESILIENCE

Jurisdiction

Citizens

  • Some Haitian citizens have relatives across the border in the Dominican Republic.
  • There are tourists etc, and UN personel, in Haiti.

Territory

Effective organisations

International recognition

Unsorted links

These links probably belong under "resources" for each SCIM category.

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