Compiled at the Army Geospatial Center in June 2010, months after the January earthquake, this reference work gathers citations on Haiti's geology, geography and earth sciences from an unusually wide spread of sources: scientific societies, government agencies, United Nations bodies, commercial databanks and major research library catalogues, with material drawn from agriculture, botany, engineering, soils, transportation, medicine and military science.

The compilers stress retrievability above completeness. Entries carry ISSN and ISBN details together with OCLC and Library of Congress control numbers, so that items can be borrowed or ordered through document delivery, and author contact details appear where possible so specialists could be reached during the emergency. They note how quickly scientific publishing from poorer countries goes out of print, and warn that place names vary in spelling across the languages in which the underlying surveys were conducted.

A long country profile precedes the citations, covering terrain and fisheries, deforestation, population and health, language, religion and the economy.