Environmental adaptation strategies of two communities (Butku and Awastingni) after Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua's Caribbean

Abstract

Good afternoon, everyone. First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Albert Sinclair for my presence. This is research I did between September 2008 and February 2009. The main purpose was to prepare a final work in order to qualify for the degree of engineer in Agricultural Production Systems at the Universidad Centro Americana. It is not a technical analysis of any production system; it does not analyze any intervention, what it does is to systematize the strategies of the families after the hurricane: what they have tried to do to survive. One important thing is that post-hurricane rehabilitation has different faces (social, economic, environmental), this research tries to address the most important one: the strategy of the communities in their rehabilitation. We hope with this to contribute to the debate and understanding of what happened in the communities after Hurricane Felix and thus to be able to act and improve the responses that communities can give in future disturbances of this type.