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This podcast is hosted by Jamaican journalist Paula-Anne Porter Jones, in conversation with co-directors of the Caribbean Resilience and Recovery Knowledge Network (CRRKN) Emily Wilkinson from ODI (a leading global affairs think tank), and Donovan Campbell from The University of the West Indies. The CRRKN is funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund. The podcast is produced by Freya Hillier for Loftus Media.To find out more about ODI's work on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) visit odi.org/resilient-islands Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Insights in Caribbean Intellectual Property is the official podcast of the Caribbean and Americas Intellectual Property Organization, CAAIPO, the leading thinktank and non-profit organization serving the Caribbean region on Intellectual property ,innovation and technology. This podcast will discuss issues in innovation, tech and intellectual property in the Caribbean and across the globe. Join us for the latest ideas and scintillating discussions in policy, development and legal outlooks with leading thinkers and forward thinking discussants. we look forward to having you !

CCC...The Reality is a Podcast dedicate to Broadening the Awareness and Enhancing the Understanding of the potential impact of Climate Change on the Lands washed by the Caribbean Sea. What measures have been proposed or initiated as part of the mitigation or adaptation of this phenomenon. As a people what should we know, how are businesses and organizations preparing or contributing to this climate environment.

Published by the Caribbean Permaculture Research Institute, each episode is a disruptive conversation on growing regenerative agriculture and permaculture principles in the Caribbean.

A "normal" Caribbean hurricane travels from east to west, but Lenny was anything but normal. Spawned south of Cuba in 1999, this late-season storm defied all predictions by moving steadily east toward the Leeward Islands. Eventually building almost to Category 5 strength, Lenny squatted for two days between the Virgin Islands and St. Martin, whipping the ocean with 155 mile-per-hour winds and sixty-foot seas.

In late April 1902, Mount Pelee, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later.

Entre los escombros del huracan Maria, los puertorriquenos y los "Puertopians" ultra-ricos estan atrapados en una batalla campal sobre como reconstruir la isla. Autora Naomi Klein revela como las fuerzas de las politicas de "shock" y del capitalismo del desastre, buscan minar la vision radical y resiliente de una recuperacion justa. El cien por ciento de las regalias por la venta de este libro iran directamente a JunteGente, un espacio de encuentro entre organizaciones en resistencia al capitalismo del desastre y que luchan por una recuperacion justa y sostenible de Puerto Rico.

In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich "Puertopians" are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake the island. In this vital and startling investigation, The New York Times best-selling author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism seek to undermine the nation's radical, resilient vision for a just recovery.