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The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch : Lessons from Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Honduras /

As it swept across the Honduran landscape, the exceptional size, power and duration of Hurricane Mitch devastated the already diminished economic, social, and environmental conditions of the population. In the aftermath, a group of seven socio-environmental scientists set out to investigate the root...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ensor, Marisa O.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Understanding Hurricane Mitch : complexity, causality, and the political ecology of disaster / Anthony Oliver-Smith
  • Hurricane Mitch : root causes and responses to the disaster / Bradley E. Ensor and Marisa Olivo Ensor
  • From natural events to "natural" disasters : assessing environmental vulnerability in Honduras / Manuel Winograd
  • A flood of impressions : riding out Mitch and its aftermath / William M. Loker
  • Post-disaster reconstruction : an opportunity for political change / Vilma Elisa Fuentes
  • Gender matters in post-disaster reconstruction / Marisa Olivo Ensor
  • Tin roofs, cinder blocks, and the Salvatrucha Gang : the semiotic-material production of crisis in post-Hurricane Mitch reconstruction / Roberto E. Barrios
  • The legacy of Mitch : conclusions for the new millennium / Marisa Olivo Ensor [and others].