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Disaster management and operation research in Uruguay
(UR. FI – INCO., 2009)
Disasters are events of huge magnitude and negative impact on society and environment. Disaster Management is a discipline that tries to deal with disasters. In this Technical Report we give a short introduction to these ...
Analysis of landslide in chosica using satellite images
(International Astronautical Federation, IAF, 2017-09)
Early in the year, Peru suffered from heavy rains mainly due to the El Niño and La Niña phenomena. As a result of these heavy rains, several cities were affected by floods and landslides. One of the most affected cities ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...