THESE PHOTOS WERE TAKEN THREE DAYS AFTER HURRICANE IVAN

AFFECTED JAMAICA.

THE PHOTOS ARE OF THE HOPE RIVER AT GORDON TOWN AND AT

TAVERN.• NOTE THE HOUSING SOLUTIONS.

NOTE THE BRIDGE THAT WAS PARTIALLY WASHED AWAY.• NOTE THE EROSION.

• CONSIDER THE DAMAGE INFLICTED.

View of “Tavern” near Papine, St. Andrew.

HOPE RIVER bed: look closely, at the houses.

THE HOPE RIVER, upstream in the hills of Gordon Town

Gordon Town, Hope River, three days after Hurricane Ivan.

TAVERN: bridge over Hope River --- partially washed away

The Volume and Force of water destroyed part of this bridge.

Were there other factors involved?

HOPE RIVER: downstream at TAVERN

These openings were blocked by debris.

Economic loss

Eroded !

Life on the river bank

Thirteen houses were washed away here.

House undermined by river.50 feet of backyard gone

LIVING ON THE HOPE RIVER

Fortunately, people had time to evacuate.

No loss of life here but lives upturned.

LOSS OF HOME

SEVERAL HOUSES SWEPT AWAY

Land is free on the river bed

THE TAVERN COMMUNITY

CHURCH

DAMAGED BRIDGE

HOPE RIVER

Part of a church that was washed away.

Salvage operations

Students at Whitfield All Age School listen attentively to a UWICED presentation on

“Waste Generation and Disposal, the Environmental Impact” February, 2004

VITAL: -- More public education and information.

• “they paved paradiseand put up a parking lotwith a pink hotel, a boutiqueand a swinging hot spot” Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics, Artist: Counting Crows

• “don't it always seem to gothat you don't know what you’ve got til its gonethey paved paradiseand put up a parking lot” Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics, Artist: Counting Crows

• “they took all the treesand put 'em in a tree museumand they charged the peoplea dollar and a half to see 'em” Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics, Artist: Counting Crows

• “don't it always seem to go,that you don't know what you’ve gottil its gonethey paved paradiseand put up a parking lot” Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics, Artist: Counting Crows

IMPERATIVE . . .

SUSTAINABLESUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT

Photo creditsMaurice Mason, Project OfficerLayout:Jacqueline Howell Nash

University of West IndiesCentre for the Environment & Development

UWICED

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