Natural hazards and human-exacerbated disasters in latin-america / edited by Edgardo M. Latrubesse.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Climate and geomorphologic related disasters in Latin America / Norberto O. Garcia, Rosana Nieto Ferreira, and Edgardo M. Latrubesse -- Geomorphology as a tool for analysis of seismogenic sources in Latin America and the Caribbean / Carlos H. Costa ... [et al.] -- The changing coastlines of South America / Federico I. Isla and Enrique J. Schnack -- Disasters in Mexico and Central America : a little bit more than a century of natural hazards / Irasema Alcántara-Ayala -- Venezuela : the construction of vulnerability and its relation to the high seismic risk / Jaime Laffaille, Carlos Ferrer, and Klaudia Laffaille -- Natural hazards and human-induced disasters triggered by intense and episodic tropical rains in the Venezuelan mountains / Maximiliano Bezada -- Convulsive events, a widespread hazard in the Colombian Andes / Michel Hermelin and Natalia Hoyos -- Geomorphology of natural and human induced disasters in Ecuador / Fausto O. Sarmiento -- Natural hazards in Peru : causation and vulnerability / Kenneth R. Young and Blanca León -- Geomorphology of natural hazards and human-induced disasters in Bolivia / Edgardo M. Latrubesse, Paul A. Baker, and Jaime Argollo -- Soil erosion in Brazil from coffee to the present-day soy bean production / Selma Simões de Castro and José Pereira de Queiroz Neto -- Landslides and disasters in southeastern and southern Brazil / Ana Luiza Coelho-Netto, André de Souza Avelar, and Willy Alvarenga Lacerda -- Floods in urban areas of Brazil / Jose Candido Stevaux ... [et al.] -- Seismic and volcanic hazards in Argentina / Laura P. Perucca and Stella M. Moreiras -- Landslide processes in Argentina / Stella M. Moreiras and Andrea Coronato -- Floods in Argentina / Edgardo M. Latrubesse and Daniel Brea -- Desertification in Patagonia / Elizabeth Mazzonia and Mirian Vazquez -- Geology and geomorphology of natural hazards and human-induced disasters in Chile / Adriano Cecioni and Verónica Pineda -- Impact of global climate change on glaciers and permafrost of South America, with emphasis on Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula / Jorge Rabassa -- Possible future changes in geomorphological hazards in Latin America / Andrew S. Goudie -- A Latin American perspective on geomorphologic hazards and related disasters / Edgardo M. Latrubesse.