Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America: Special Volumes of Geomorphology

Editorial Foreword;

Foreword;

Preface;

1.Climate and geomorphologic related disasters in Latin America (NO. Garcia);

1. Geomorphology as a Tool f or Analysis of Seismogenic Sources in Latin America and the Caribbean (C .H. Costa, F.A. Audemard M., L. Audin and C. Benavente);

2. The changing coastlines of South America (F.I. Isla and E.J. Schnack);

3. Disasters i n Mexico and Central America: a little bit more than a Century of Natura l Hazards (I. Alc ntara-Ayala);

4. Venezuela: The Construction of Vulnerability and its Relation to the High Seismic Risk (J. Laffaille,

C. Ferrer and K. Laffaille);

1. Natural hazards and human induced disasters triggered by intense and epi sodic tropical rains in the Venezuelan mountains (M. Bezada);

2. Convulsive events, a widespread hazard in the Colombian Andes (M. Her melin and Natalia Hoyos);

3. Geomorphology of natural and huma n induced disasters in Ecuador (F. Sarmiento);

4. Natural haza