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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 ...
Evaluation report of the training course on disaster assessment methodology
(ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, 2016-05-12)
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has been a pioneer in the field of disaster assessment and in the development and dissemination of the Disaster Assessment Methodology. The organization’s ...
From natural threat to disaster: A historical construction of the earthquake and tsunami of 1960 in Saavedra
(FAC LATINOAMERICANA CIENCIAS SOCIALES-FLACSO. ECUADOR, 2020)
Using Machine Learning for Extracting Information from Natural Disaster News Reports
(Revista Computación y Sistemas; Vol. 13 No.1, 2009-08-15)
Abstract. The disasters caused by natural phenomena have been present all along human history; nevertheless, their consequences are greater each time. This tendency will not be reverted in the coming years; on the contrary, ...
Disasters as Critical Junctures: State Building and Industrialization in Chile after the Chillán Earthquake of 1939
(2022)
In 1939 an earthquake destroyed south-central Chile, especially the city of Chillán. This event was arguably the most catastrophic socio-natural disaster in Chilean history, yet it has been mostly ignored in historical ...
Limites e possibilidades da imputabilidade penal em caso de desastres ambientais a partir de estudos de casos
(Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2018-10-16)
The present work aims to analyze the penal treatment given to cases involving disasters, especially the performance of the guarantors, around the risk and their species. To do so, it begins by bringing the Brazilian ...
Limites e possibilidades da imputabilidade penal em caso de desastres ambientais a partir de estudos de casos
(Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2018-10-16)
The present work aims to analyze the penal treatment given to cases involving disasters, especially the performance of the guarantors, around the risk and their species. To do so, it begins by bringing the Brazilian ...
Industrialization and environmental crisis: A representation of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl prayer by Svetlana AleksievéitchIndustrialização e crise ambiental: A representação do desastre nuclear em Vozes de Tchernóbil, de Svetlana Aleksiévitch
(2019-01-01)
The article uses Svetlana Aleksievich's Voices of Chernobyl as representative to analyze the way humans have beaconed their energy production processes. Thus, literature emerges as a historical source to assess the ...
Fiscal aftershocks: taxes and catastrophes in Chilean history
(2022)
Socio-natural disasters remain underexplored events in economic history, even though they stress societies in several ways and are known for their relationship with institutional change. In this paper, we explore this issue ...
Mobile phone tower location for survival after natural disasters
(ELSEVIER, 2012)
This paper discusses the location or strengthening of cell phone towers so as to maximize service coverage and minimize the loss of communications if a natural disaster happens. This paper demonstrates that, under a high ...