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 ...

The relationship between post‐disaster actions and the enrichment of private companies have become evident in Chile. Two recent disasters in Chile (i.e. the 2010 Maule earthquakes and Valparaiso fires in 2014) illustrate ...

Disasters like terrorist attacks, earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcano eruptions are usually unpredictable events that affect a high number of people. We propose an approach that could be used as a decision support tool ...

In this chapter, resilience is not considered to be a one-step process, as many policy frameworks have been proposed. We presented some trends in resilience and post-recovery management theoretical frameworks. Also, we ...

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, ...

This paper describes how the inhabitants of Llico, a small fishing town in Chile, organized to move from the coastline to avoid a tsunami that devastated their homes and livelihoods and then to manage immediate responses. ...

This paper describes how the inhabitants of Llico, a small fishing town in Chile, organized to move from the coastline to avoid a tsunami that devastated their homes and livelihoods and then to manage immediate responses. ...