Resistance, resilience, and vulnerability of social‐ecological systems to hurricanes in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

of America, Children's Defense Fund, and Generations United have partnered to produce state and national GrandFacts fact sheets for grandparents and other relatives raising children. The state fact sheets include state-specific data and programs as well as information about foster care, public benefits, educational assistance and state laws. Visit www.grandfactsheets.org to find this and all Gr...

Vulnerability and Robustness of Civil Infrastructure Systems to Hurricanes

Civil infrastructure systems play an important role in community resilience. Without proper functioning of the infrastructure, especially power delivery, society will not recover quickly from disruptive events, such as hurricanes. In this paper, the vulnerability, response, and recovery of selected infrastructure at the system level for several hurricanes in the USA are modeled using geostatist...

Slavery in Puerto Rico

University of Puerto Rico

Weed Controi, in Puerto Rico

Sugar cane growers in Puerto Rico are faced with problems of weed control as any other farmer in the world. He is faced with increased cost of production of cane, through higher labor and material costs. When labor costs were low, much of the weed control was done by many men using machetes and other implements. As every farmer knows "weeds are plants out of place." Since beginning of farming, ...