Management of natural hazard risk in Cartago, Costa Rica

Habitat International

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 493-509

  Montoya, Lorena ^a   Masser, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cartago; Costa Rica; Disaster management; Geographic information; Natural hazards; Planning support systems; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; URBAN AREA;

CARTAGO; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12744263364     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2004.04.003     Document Type: Article

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