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What is the future for Montserrat?

What is the future for Montserrat?. Photograph by Adam Goss http://people.cornell.edu/pages/arg32/watson/montserrat.html and used with permission. Montserrat re-development. You will be able to recognise the differences between short and long term needs

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What is the future for Montserrat?

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  1. What is the future for Montserrat? Photograph by Adam Goss http://people.cornell.edu/pages/arg32/watson/montserrat.html and used with permission

  2. Montserrat re-development • You will be able to recognise the differences between short and long term needs • You will understand the concept of sustainable development.

  3. In August of 1997, a series of pyroclastic flows and lahars (mudflows) destroyed the capital city of Plymouth Photograph by Adam Goss http://people.cornell.edu/pages/arg32/watson/montserrat.html and used with permission

  4. With every rainfall, Plymouth became a bit more buried. The city, along with the southern half of the island, is currently designated by the Montserrat Volcano Observatory as an 'Exclusion Zone'. Photograph by Adam Goss http://people.cornell.edu/pages/arg32/watson/montserrat.html and used with permission

  5. "Hot, hot, hot" the Soca anthem by  Montserratian Arrow, now takes on a new meaning..... Photograph by Adam Goss http://people.cornell.edu/pages/arg32/watson/montserrat.html and used with permission

  6. Coral reefs have been damaged and fish stocks affected Most of the islands small businesses have been forced to close Photographs from MVO http://www.mvo.ms/ and used with permission

  7. Nearly 8,000 people out of a total population of 12,000 left the island for nearby Antigua, some went to the USA and Britain. Photograph from MVO http://www.mvo.ms/ and used with permission

  8. Today, Montserratians are rebuilding their country with help from the British Government.  Slowly, people are moving out of the shelters or back from abroad to resettle in developments constructed in the North.  Photograph by Adam Goss http://people.cornell.edu/pages/arg32/watson/montserrat.html and used with permission

  9. The north of the island remains untouched by the volcano. Photograph by Adam Goss http://people.cornell.edu/pages/arg32/watson/montserrat.html and used with permission

  10. What would this Montserrat resident have to say about the future? Think about … Social problems Economic problems Environmental issues What are the short term priorities? What are the long term needs? Photograph by Adam Goss http://people.cornell.edu/pages/arg32/watson/montserrat.html and used with permission

  11. Today the reconstruction of Montserrat is well under way. Some of the evacuated residents have begun to return, but half of the island is expected to remain uninhabitable for another decade. Your task is to prepare a plan to spend the£50 million that the British government has promised to help reconstruct the economy. The governor will present you with some choices…

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