In October 1998, a hurricane visited death and destruction on Honduras, with flooding and mudslides. A case history of a rural community documents how recovery from that event produced socio-economic improvement.
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Agrawal, A. A positive side of disaster. Nature 473, 291–292 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/473291a
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