TY  - BOOK
TI  - Natural hazards and human-exacerbated disasters in latin-america / 
SN  - 9780444531179
U1  - 363.34098 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - UK
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Natural disasters
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Geomorphology
KW  - Emergency management
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1211/2011278862-d.html
ER  -