Natural hazards and human-exacerbated disasters in latin-america /
edited by Edgardo M. Latrubesse.
- UK: Elsevier, 2010.
- xxiv, 510 p. illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Climate and geomorphologic related disasters in Latin America / Geomorphology as a tool for analysis of seismogenic sources in Latin America and the Caribbean / The changing coastlines of South America / Disasters in Mexico and Central America : a little bit more than a century of natural hazards / Venezuela : the construction of vulnerability and its relation to the high seismic risk / Natural hazards and human-induced disasters triggered by intense and episodic tropical rains in the Venezuelan mountains / Convulsive events, a widespread hazard in the Colombian Andes / Geomorphology of natural and human induced disasters in Ecuador / Natural hazards in Peru : causation and vulnerability / Geomorphology of natural hazards and human-induced disasters in Bolivia / Soil erosion in Brazil from coffee to the present-day soy bean production / Landslides and disasters in southeastern and southern Brazil / Floods in urban areas of Brazil / Seismic and volcanic hazards in Argentina / Landslide processes in Argentina / Floods in Argentina / Desertification in Patagonia / Geology and geomorphology of natural hazards and human-induced disasters in Chile / Impact of global climate change on glaciers and permafrost of South America, with emphasis on Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula / Possible future changes in geomorphological hazards in Latin America / A Latin American perspective on geomorphologic hazards and related disasters / Norberto O. Garcia, Rosana Nieto Ferreira, and Edgardo M. Latrubesse -- Carlos H. Costa ... [et al.] -- Federico I. Isla and Enrique J. Schnack -- Irasema Alcántara-Ayala -- Jaime Laffaille, Carlos Ferrer, and Klaudia Laffaille -- Maximiliano Bezada -- Michel Hermelin and Natalia Hoyos -- Fausto O. Sarmiento -- Kenneth R. Young and Blanca León -- Edgardo M. Latrubesse, Paul A. Baker, and Jaime Argollo -- Selma Simões de Castro and José Pereira de Queiroz Neto -- Ana Luiza Coelho-Netto, André de Souza Avelar, and Willy Alvarenga Lacerda -- Jose Candido Stevaux ... [et al.] -- Laura P. Perucca and Stella M. Moreiras -- Stella M. Moreiras and Andrea Coronato -- Edgardo M. Latrubesse and Daniel Brea -- Elizabeth Mazzonia and Mirian Vazquez -- Adriano Cecioni and Verónica Pineda -- Jorge Rabassa -- Andrew S. Goudie -- Edgardo M. Latrubesse.