2. 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.

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

4. HOPE RIVER bed: look closely, at the houses.

6. THE HOPE RIVER, upstream in the hills of Gordon Town

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

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

11. The Volume and Force of water destroyed part of this bridge. Were there other factors involved?

12. HOPE RIVER: downstream at TAVERN

13. These openings were blocked by debris.

15. Economic loss

20. Eroded !

23. Life on the river bank

24. Thirteen houses were washed away here.

26. House undermined by river. 50 feet of backyard gone

32. LIVING ON THE HOPE RIVER

33. Fortunately, people had time to evacuate.

34. No loss of life here but lives upturned.

35. LOSS OF HOME

36. SEVERAL HOUSES SWEPT AWAY

37. Land is free on the river bed

39. THE TAVERN COMMUNITY CHURCH DAMAGED BRIDGE HOPE RIVER

44. Part of a church that was washed away.

52. Salvage operations

53. 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.

54. “they paved paradise and put up a parking lot with a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot” Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics, Artist: Counting Crows

55. “don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you’ve got til its gone they paved paradise and put up a parking lot” Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics, Artist: Counting Crows

56. “they took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum and they charged the people a dollar and a half to see 'em” Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics, Artist: Counting Crows

57. “don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you’ve got til its gone they paved paradise and put up a parking lot” Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics, Artist: Counting Crows

58. IMPERATIVE... SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT

59. Photo credits Maurice Mason, Project Officer Layout:Jacqueline Howell Nash University of West Indies Centre for the Environment & Development UWICED

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