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Conferencia interamericana sobre reducción de los desastres naturales
Author: Conferencia interamericana sobre reducción de los desastres naturales
Author: Sistema Nacional para la Prevención y Atención de Desastres (Colombia)Publisher:
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Memorias de la Conferencia Interamericana sobre Reduccion de los Desastres Naturales : Experiencias Nacionales
Author: Conferencia interamericana sobre reduccion de los desastres naturales. Experiencias nacionales
Author: Sistema Nacional para la Prevencion y Atencion de DesastresPublisher:
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Conferencia Interamericana sobre reducción del riesgo de los desastres[
Author: Conferencia Interamericana sobre Reducción de los Desastres Naturales
Author: Conferencia Mundial sobre la reducción de los desastres naturales
Author: Nacions Unides. Assemblea GeneralPublisher:
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Constructing Risk
Author: Stephen O. BenderPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800731639
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies approach economic development while trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers. It examines the vulnerability of economic and social infrastructure to natural hazard events, looks at policies which imperil infrastructure, and proposes new development approaches to be undertaken by sovereign states, international development banks, NGOs, and bilateral aid agencies.
Tropical Forest Remnants
Author: William F. LaurancePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226468983
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
We live in an increasingly fragmented world, with islands of natural habitat cast adrift in a sea of cleared, burned, logged, polluted, and otherwise altered lands. Nowhere are fragmentation and its devastating effects more evident than in the tropical forests. By the year 2000, more than half of these forests will have been cut, causing increased soil erosion, watershed destabilization, climate degradation, and extinction of as many as 600,000 species. Tropical Forest Remnants provides the best information available to help us understand, manage, and conserve the remaining fragments. Covering geographic areas from Southeast Asia and Australia to Madagascar and the New World, this volume summarizes what is known about the ecology, management, restoration, socioeconomics, and conservation of fragmented forests. Thirty-three papers present results of recent research as well as updates from decades-long projects in progress. Two final chapters synthesize the state of research on tropical forest fragmentation and identify key priorities for future work.
Environmental Security in Latin America
Author: Gavin O'ToolePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315529394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book examines security in Latin America through an environmental lens, at a time when this region faces a broad and growing spectrum of threats. The book considers the backdrop against which security debates about Latin America have been conducted; the extent to which scholarship has been dominated by traditional US strategic concerns; and how, in the changing context at the end of the Cold War, some policymakers within Latin America itself at both national and regional levels began to reposition security. It argues that traditional security scholarship focusing on military defence and strategic affairs in this region is hard to explain and out of date, and offers reasons why a new focus on environmental threats within a broader human security perspective has much to offer this field. Such a focus is justified by the scale of the challenges that environmental degradation is posing in Latin America, and the very real impact of climate change there. The book considers how the various theoretical possibilities of the term ‘environmental security’ all have some potential application to this region, where the natural environment is rapidly being securitized by military forces on behalf of their states. Finally, it proposes that a fruitful approach to Latin America might be one where human and environmental security have parity. This book will be of interest to students of environmental security, Latin American security, human geography and IR in general.