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Landslide risk index map at the municipal scale for Costa Rica
(2021-04-01)
Landslides are a common natural hazard worldwide with greater socioeconomic impacts in developing and tropical countries. In Central America and Costa Rica, this phenomenon is mainly triggered by seismicity and extraordinary ...
Landslide Hazard and Risk Zonation Mapping in the Río Grande Basin, Central Andes of Mendoza, Argentina
(Mountain Research & Development, 2002-05)
This paper presents an inventory of landslides and hazard and risk zonation mapping along the Río Grande basin in the Central Andes of Mendoza. The mapping was based on field work combined with interpretation of aerial ...
Natural hazards in Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica, Central America
(2014-03)
Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica, is a county facing serious risks from natural hazards, specifically flooding, earthquakes, volcanic activity and landslides. In order to inform disaster risk reduction efforts and ...
Natural hazards in Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica, Central America
(2014-03)
Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica, is a county facing serious risks from natural hazards, specifically flooding, earthquakes, volcanic activity and landslides. In order to inform disaster risk reduction efforts and ...
Integration of resilience and risk to natural hazards into transportation asset management of road networks: a systematic review
(Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2023)
Transportation asset management is a systematic process for the operation, maintenance, and upgrade of physical transportation assets over their life cycle. Although transportation asset management has continued to evolve ...
Moral hazard and general equilibrium in large economies
(2001)
The paper analyzes a two period general equilibrium model with individual risk, aggregate uncertainty and moral hazard. There is a large number of households, each facing two individual states of nature in the second period. ...
Community participation in natural risk prevention: Case histories from Colombia
(GEOLOGICAL SOC PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2008-01-01)
More than 75% of Colombia's 42 million people live in urban areas located in the mountains and are exposed to numerous natural hazards: floods, flash floods, landslides, earthquakes and volcanism. The Armero disaster of ...
Trust and risk perception of natural hazards: implications for risk preparedness in Chile
(2016)
It has been found that both preparedness for disasters and public response are significantly influenced by risk perceptions and trust in authorities and experts. Although Chile is a country with a long history of natural ...