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Earthquake Disasters in Latin America A Holistic Approach /
This book is an attempt to demonstrate the analytical power of the holistic approach for understanding disasters. Six major earthquakes in Latin America are used as an example: the general idea is to place disasters in a broad social and regional context. Understanding disasters is a way of under...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Colección: | SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Darwin and plate tectonics
- 2. The great 1960 Chile earthquake
- 3. The 1967 Caracas earthquake.- 4. The 1970 Peru earthquake
- 5. The 1985 Mexico earthquake
- 6. The 2010 Haiti earthquake
- 7. The 2010 Chile earthquake
- 8. A list of significant earthquakes in Latin America
- 9. Conclusions and recommendations.