Earthquake disasters in Latin America [electronic resource] : a holistic approach / by Heriberta Castaños, Cinna Lomnitz.
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 understa...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | SpringerBriefs in earth sciences.
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| Summary: | 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 understanding the social system. The idea is to show that every major disaster is unique and different. Statistical methods may be useful for purposes of risk estimation but modern disasters are "systemic" and complex. In the chapter on the 2010 Chile earthquake we discuss the tsunami and why the system of. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 65 pages) : color illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789400728103 9400728107 |
| ISSN: | 2191-5369. |
| Language: | English. |