Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Benjamin, E., Bassily-Marcus, A. M., Babu, E., Silver, L., & Marin, M.
L. (2011). Principles and Practice of Disaster Relief: Lessons From
Haiti. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 78(3), 306318.
http://doi.org/10.1002/msj.20251
and areas more livable is one of the main challenges of the twenty-first
century.
Evans utilizes his experiences as a sociologist to provide a
multidisciplinary approach and create a great amount of data. Readers
are able to see how poverty and social and spatial inequities contribute
to unlivable cities in a globalized world.
Katz, J. M. (2013). The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came
to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. Macmillan.
In this book, Katz provides a first-hand account of life in Haiti before
and after the earthquake devastation, and explains how the world
reacted to the state once it was in need. The author examines how
years later Haiti remains unable to rebuild and prepare for future
disasters.
As a full-time news correspondent in Haiti, Katz employs investigatory
journalism to discover how monetary donations and relief efforts had
become inefficient. The author informs readers of the dysfunctionality
of international aid and organizations.