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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138237019
Author : Vincent Gawronski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138237000
Author : June Carolyn Erlick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000335187
Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity explores the relationship between natural disasters and civil society, immigration and diaspora communities and the long-term impact on emotional health. Natural disasters shape history and society and, in turn, their long-range impact is determined by history and society. This is especially true in Latin America and the Caribbean, where climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of these extreme events. Ranging from pre-Columbian flooding in the Andes to the devastation of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, this book focuses on long-range recovery and recuperation, rather than short-term disaster relief. Written in the time of the coronavirus pandemic, the author shows how lessons learned about civil society, governance, climate change, inequality and trauma from natural disasters have their echoes in the challenges of today’s uncertain world. This book is well-suited to the classroom and will be an asset to students of Latin American history, environmental history and historical memory.
Author : Edgardo Latrubesse
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0080932185
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. Actual theme, interesting for a variety of professionals Fills in the scarcity of specialized literature in geosciences from South America The first book in the market exclusively devoted to geomorphology of disasters in South America
Author : Virginia García-Acosta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429015175
This book offers anthropological insights into disasters in Latin America. It fills a gap in the literature by bringing together national and regional perspectives in the study of disasters. The book essentially explores the emergence and development of anthropological studies of disasters. It adopts a methodological approach based on ethnography, participant observation, and field research to assess the social and historical constructions of disasters and how these are perceived by people of a certain region. This regional perspective helps assess long-term dynamics, regional capacities, and regional-global interactions on disaster sites. With chapters written by prominent Latin American anthropologists, this book also considers the role of the state and other nongovernmental organizations in managing disasters and the specific conditions of each country, relative to a greater or lesser incidence of disastrous events. Globalizing the existing literature on disasters with a focus on Latin America, this book offers multidisciplinary insights that will be of interest to academics and students of geography, anthropology, sociology, and political science.
Author : Carlos Fonseca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501350658
This book investigates how nature and history intertwined during the violent aftermath of the Latin American Wars of Independence. Synthesizing intellectual history and readings of textual production, The Literature of Catastrophe reimagines the emergence of the modern Latin American nation-states beyond the scope of the harmonious “foundational fictions” that marked the emergence of the nation as an organic community. Through a study of philosophical, literary and artistic representations of three catastrophic figures – earthquakes, volcanoes and epidemics – this book provides a critical model through which to refute these state-sponsored “happy narratives,” proposing instead that the emergence of the modern state in Latin America was indeed a violent event whose aftershocks are still felt today. Engaging a variety of sources and protagonists, from Simón Bolívar's manifestoes to Cesar Aira's use of landscape in his novels, from the revolutionary role mosquitoes had within the Haitian Revolution to the role AIDS played in the writing of Reinaldo Arenas' posthumous novel, Carlos Fonseca offers an original retelling of this foundational moment, recounting how history has become a site where the modern division between nature and culture collapses.
Author : Mark D. Anderson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813932033
In the aftermath of disaster, literary and other cultural representations of the event can play a role in the renegotiation of political power. In Disaster Writing, Mark D. Anderson analyzes four natural disasters in Latin America that acquired national significance and symbolism through literary mediation: the 1930 cyclone in the Dominican Republic, volcanic eruptions in Central America, the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, and recurring drought in northeastern Brazil. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the disaster narratives, Anderson explores concepts such as the social construction of risk, landscape as political and cultural geography, vulnerability as the convergence of natural hazard and social marginalization, and the cultural mediation of trauma and loss. He shows how the political and historical contexts suggest a systematic link between natural disaster and cultural politics.
Author : Robert H. Claxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Human beings
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023431061
Author : Jürgen Buchenau,Lyman L. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124145900
In using natural disasters as a way to study societal and especially political change, the essays in this volume illustrate the immediate as well as the long term consequences of destruction.
Author : Heriberta Castanos,Cinna Lomnitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9400728115
Author : Charles F. Walker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0822341891
A social history of the earthquake-tsunami that struck Lima in October 1746, looking at how people in and beyond Lima understood and reacted to the natural disaster.
Author : Sherry Johnson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0807869341
From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental history, and Cuban and American colonial history, Sherry Johnson innovatively integrates the region's experience with extreme weather events and patterns into the history of the Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic world. By superimposing this history of natural disasters over the conventional timeline of sociopolitical and economic events in Caribbean colonial history, Johnson presents an alternative analysis in which some of the signal events of the Age of Revolution are seen as consequences of ecological crisis and of the resulting measures for disaster relief. For example, Johnson finds that the general adoption in 1778 of free trade in the Americas was catalyzed by recognition of the harsh realities of food scarcity and the needs of local colonists reeling from a series of natural disasters. Weather-induced environmental crises and slow responses from imperial authorities, Johnson argues, played an inextricable and, until now, largely unacknowledged role in the rise of revolutionary sentiments in the eighteenth-century Caribbean.
Author : John Luke Gallup,Alejandro Gaviria,Eduardo Lora
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821383674
For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that, since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that geographic interpretations of development were deterministic, or even racist, made the subject a virtual taboo in academic and policymaking circles alike. 'Is Geography Destiny?' challenges that premise and joins a growing body of literature studying the links between geography and development. Focusing on Latin America, the book argues that based on a better understanding of geography, public policy can help control or channel its influence toward the goals of economic and social development.
Author : Pitagoras Binde,Katie Moraes de Almondes,Ricardo Jose Matos de Carvalho,Lutiane Queiroz de Almeida,Sergio Murillo Santos de Araujo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3346341356
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2020 in the subject Social Studies (General), The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Núcleo de Pesquisas sobre Desastres - NUPED), language: English, abstract: The Book was organized under the responsibility of the Center Disaster Research of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte ("NUPED-UFRN"). The authors involved will be able to create their chapters in three languages, which are, English, Spanish and/or Portuguese, as a strategy for the dissemination of DRR studies made in Latin America. As recent as it is, risk and disasters have been playing a major role within the international scientific literature. Thus, it can be observed that extreme events have caused immeasurable damages to multiple sectors of society, especially to those who encounter themselves in high social vulnerability, particularly when the Latin American reality lies within the disrespectful and neglectful actions from governments towards their citizens. The arguments of such governments are based exclusively on the phenomenon itself, i.e., the premeditated search for a naturalization of the concept of disaster, and do not consider the results derived from omission and ineffective measures. The History has taught the scientific community that the malpractice decontextualized of this area means to unacknowledged the complexity of the field and the impacts on our daily lives. The need for a change of attitude from the scientific community and, consequently, a transformation in the paradigm regarding disasters, that means, the denaturalization of the concept. Currently, the Covid-19 Pandemic has made explicit what the government lacks to present to the public, i.e., the vulnerabilities of the system and the interests involved, since governments take ineffective measures for the prevention and control of extreme events with multiple victims.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Division of Natural Hazard Mitigation,Committee on Natural Disasters
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309044776
On November 13, 1985, catastrophic mudflows swept down the slopes of the erupting Nevado del Ruiz volcano, destroying structures in their paths. Various estimates of deaths ranged as high as 24,000 residents. Though the nature and extent of risk posed by the mudflows to local communities were well documented before the event and extensive efforts had been made to communicate this information to those at risk, the affected communities were caught largely unaware. This volume analyzes the disaster's many aspects: the extent, constitution, and behavior of the mudflows; the nature of damage to structures; the status of the area's disaster warning system; and the extent of the area's disaster preparedness, emergency response actions, and disaster relief effortsâ€"both at the time of the disaster and in the first few months following the event.
