Primer on natural hazard management in integrated regional development planning.

OEA. Depto. de Desarrollo Regional y Ambiental. Secretaría Ejecutiva de Asuntos Económicos y Sociales.

1991

1386
CIENA

0-8270-3008-8

PREFACE. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. HOW TO USE THIS PRIMER. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. INTRODUCTION. INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND NATURAL HAZARDS. Incorporating Natural Hazard Management into the Development Planning Process. Natural hazard risk reduction in project formulation and evaluation. Resource evaluation and the role of ecosystems in mitigating natural hazards. TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR NATURAL HAZARD ASSESSMENT. Remote sensing in natural hazard assessments. Geographic information systems in natural hazard management. Multiple hazard mapping. Critical facilities mapping. ASSESSMENT OF SPECIFIC NATURAL HAZARDS. Floodplain definition and flood hazard assessment. Desertification hazard assessment. Landslide hazard assessment. Geologic hazards. Hurricane hazards. APPENDIX A: SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON NATURAL HAZARDS.

Presenta maps., tbls. y gráfs. El Centro posee además versión en español

AMERICA LATINA; DESASTRES NATURALES; CARIBE; SISTEMAS DE INFORMACION; FUENTES DE INFORMACION; IMPACTO; PREVENCION; ASPECTOS GEOGRAFICOS; SENSORES REMOTOS; TERREMOTOS; ERUPCIONES VOLCANICAS; HURACAN; MITIGACION; ECOSISTEMAS; SATELITES DE COMUNICACION; EVALUACION DE PROYECTOS; DESERTIFICACION; DESLIZAMIENTO;