Description The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms
and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters
are also included, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil. The receding of South-American glaciers as a response
to recent climatic trends and sea-level scenarios are discussed.
The approach is broad in analyzing causes and consequences and includes
social and economic costs, discussing environmental and planning problems, but always describing the geomorphologic/geologic involved
processes with a good scientific substantiation. This is important to differentiate the book from others of a more 'social' impact that
discuss risks and disasters with emphases mainly on economy and simple impacts.
Audience
universities, institutes of research, researchers, students and some firms working on Environmental Sciences, Geosciences, Physical Geography,
Applied Geology and Applied Engineering, planners and other related groups.
Contents
Editorial Foreword;
Foreword;
Preface;
1.Climate and geomorphologic related disasters in Latin America (NO.
Garcia)
;
2. Geomorphology as a Tool for Analysis of Seismogenic Sources in Latin America and the Caribbean
(C.H. Costa, F.A. Audemard M., L. Audin and C. Benavente);
3. The changing coastlines of South America (F.I.
Isla and E.J. Schnack);
4. Disasters in Mexico and Central America: a little bit more than a
Century of Natural Hazards (I. Alc ntara-Ayala);
5. Venezuela: The Construction of Vulnerability and its Relation
to the High Seismic Risk (J. Laffaille,
C. Ferrer and K. Laffaille);
6. Natural hazards and human induced disasters triggered
by intense and episodic tropical rains in the Venezuelan mountains (M. Bezada);
7. Convulsive events, a widespread hazard in the
Colombian Andes (M. Hermelin and Natalia Hoyos);
8. Geomorphology of natural and human induced disasters in Ecuador (F. Sarmiento);
9. Natural hazards in Peru: Causation and vulnerability (K. Young and Blanca Le n);
10. Geomorphology of natural hazards and
human-induced disasters in Bolivia (E.M. Latrubesse,
P.A. Baker and J. Argollo);
11. Soil erosion in Brazil from coffee
to the present-day soy bean production (S. Simoes de Castro and J. Pereira de Queiroz Neto);
12. Landslides and Disasters
in Southeastern and Southern Brazil (A.L. Coelho Netto and A. de Souza Avelar);
13. Floods in Urban areas of Brazil (J.C. Stevaux,
E.M. Latrubesse, M.L. de P. Hermann and S. Aquino);
14. Seismic and Volcanic Hazards in Argentina (L.P. Perucca and S.M.
Moreiras);
15. Landslide Processes in Argentina (S.M. Moreiras and A.Coronato);
16. Floods in Argentina (E.M. Latrubesse
and D. Brea);
17. Desertification in Patagonia (E. Mazzonia and M. Vazqueza);
18. Geology and Geomorphology of Natural
Hazards and Human-Induced disasters in Chile (A. Cecioni and
V. Pineda);
19. Impact of global climate change on glaciers
and permafrost of South America, with emphasis on Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula (J. Rabassa);
20. Possible
Future Changes in Geomorphological Hazards in Latin America (A. Goudie);
21. A Latin American Perspective on Geomorphologic Hazards
and Related Disasters (E.M. Latrubesse);
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