Volcanic hazard or economic destitution: Hard choices in banños, ecuador

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-34

  Lane, Lucille R ^a   Tobin, Graham A ^a   Whiteford, Linda M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community recovery; Economy and tourism; Ecuador; Evacuation; Tungurahua volcano; Volcano hazard

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION; VOLCANO;

BANOS; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA; TUNGURAHUA;

FRAXINUS;

EID: 2642530537     PISSN: 17477891     EISSN: 18780059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hazards.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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