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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, ...
Risk perceptions and management strategies in a post-disaster landscape of Guatemala: Social conflict as an opportunity to understand disaster
(Elsevier, 2021-04-15)
This work analyses a post-disaster case study in Guatemala where a large landslide named “Los Chorros” affected several communities and one of the country’s main highways. Risk managers, starting from their own assessment, ...
Scientific controversy as a disaster risk factor: The 2007 seismic crisis in Patagonia, Chile
(Elsevier, 2020)
In 2007, a sequence of geophysical events occurred in Chilean Patagonia that manifested themselves in a series of earthquakes and a fjord tsunami, causing many months of disruption to the normal functioning of a region not ...
Diagnostic Approach on Institutional and Social Enablers for Environmental Management and Disaster Reduction at Municipal Level: Analysis of Chilean Municipalities
(2016)
Applying theories of Multilevel Governance and Social Capital, the paper analyses Environmental Management and Disaster Reduction Risk (EMDRR) in municipalities with a methodology that combines case studies with quantitative ...
Disaster risk construction in the progressive consolidation of informal settlements: Iquique and Puerto Montt (Chile) case studies
(Elsevier, 2015)
The relationship between informality and vulnerability, common in Latin American communities, is analyzed using data from two medium-sized cities in the Chilean urban system as case studies: Iquique, located in the northern ...
Evaluation report of the e-learning course on Damage and Loss Assessment Methodology and planning for disaster risk reduction : Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) online platform
(ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, 2020-07-13)
Disaster Risk Reduction Education: Pilot Studies in Rio de Janeiro State, BrazilEducação para Redução de Riscos e Desastres: Experiências Formais e Não Formais no Estado do Rio de Janeiro
(Centro de Ciências Matemáticas e da Natureza, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Feder, 2020)
Co-evolution between structural mitigation measures and urbanization in France and Colombia: A comparative analysis of disaster risk management policies based on disaster databases
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2011-10-01)
This article examines the major differences between the EM-DAT and DesInventar international disaster databases, which are frequently used as the basis for designing risk reduction programs. We found that disaster prevention ...