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Priorities for natural disaster risk reduction in Central America
(2023)
Central America is known for its high risk of disasters due to various physical, economic, and
sociocultural factors. The region sits on the following tectonic plates: North America, Cocos,
Caribbean, Nazca, and Panama, ...
Relationships between COVID-19 and disaster risk in Costa Rican municipalities
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts on every aspect of human life since the first confirmed case in December 2019. Costa Rica reported its first case of COVID-19 in March 2020, coinciding with a notable ...
Natural disaster risk inequalities in Central America
(2022)
Central America is affected by geological and hydrometeorological hazards
that, together with its high exposure and vulnerability, comprise risky scenarios for disasters. This region presents a significant number of ...
Hydrometeorological disasters in urban areas of Costa Rica, Central America
(2020)
Tropical countries are subjected to natural disasters which cause
substantial human and economic losses. Coping with disasters in
tropics requires to improve our understanding of the frequency
and distribution of ...
Natural disasters and their impacts on supply chains
(EurOMA Conference, 2015)
This research aimed to understand how Brazilian organizations, located in areas affected by natural disasters were impacted in their operations and the impacts to their whole supply chain. Based on documentary analysis, ...
Climate change and natural disasters
(Universidad de Chile, 2015-12)
Intense climate-related disasters—floods, storms, droughts, and heat
waves—have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with
an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,
temperatures, ...
Epidemic activity after natural disasters without high mortality in developing settings
(Taylor and Francis, 2013)
Natural disasters with minimal human mortality rarely capture headlines but occur frequently and Results: in significant morbidity and economic loss. We compared the epidemic activity observed after a flood, an earthquake, ...
La visión economicista en las políticas públicas para reducir desastres
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales., 2018)