Natural Disasters and Their Impact in Latin America

National and Local Vulnerability to Climate‐Related Disasters in Latin America: The Role of Social Asset‐Based Adaptation

“…Flooding and landslides are common in Latin America, which has complex river basin systems and mountainous terrain (Biles and Cobos, 2007). Tropical storms and hurricanes, formed in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, are frequent throughout the region.…”

“…The Latin American region experiences more climate‐related hazards per capita than any other region. The relatively poor countries of Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras are particularly vulnerable (Biles and Cobos, 2007). The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that climate change and variability will increase the region's risk of exposure to natural hazards in the near future.…”

Estimation of integrated water vapor derived from Global Navigation Satellite System observations over Central-Western Argentina (2015–2018). Validation and usefulness for the understanding of regional precipitation events

“…Water vapor plays a major role in the development of, for example: extreme precipitation events (Fujita and Sato, 2017;Barindelli et al, 2018); rainfall associated with rapidly-deepening cyclones in mid-latitudes (McMurdie and Katsaros, 1996); hail development (Guerova et al, 2013;Calori et al, 2016); and, orographic precipitation associated with atmospheric rivers (Smith et al, 2010). The Central-Western Argentina (CWA) is a region where the interplay between the complex topography and the atmospheric circulation determines a wide range of precipitation features, from intense winter orographic precipitation (Viale and Norte, 2009), to extreme summer precipitation events causing the occurrence of landslides over the Andes range (Santos et al, 2015) and hailstorms over the lowlands (Biles and Cobos, 2007), and to multi-annual severe drought events (Penalba and Rivera, 2016;Rivera et al, 2017). There are several water vapor sources over the region, having a large seasonal variability which is translated to the annual precipitation cycle.…”

EMDR Therapy Humanitarian Trauma Recovery Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean

“…Since the 1970s, it has also fallen victim to enormous levels of political violence, which peaked in the 1980s and took form as wars, insurgencies, counterinsurgencies, and other civil conflicts. The consequences of these were extreme violence, massacres, ubiquitous disappearances, rapes, torture, and burning of villages (Norris, Murphy, Baker, & Perilla, 2004).According to Biles and Cobos (2004), one of the most hazard-prone regions in the world is Latin America because of its geography located atop four major active tectonic plates with regular seismic activity. From 2006 to 2010 one-fourth of all natural disasters-442 of 1,915-happened in Latin America.…”

“…According to Biles and Cobos (2004), one of the most hazard-prone regions in the world is Latin America because of its geography located atop four major active tectonic plates with regular seismic activity. From 2006 to 2010 one-fourth of all natural disasters-442 of 1,915-happened in Latin America.…”