IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/epw/ejgeo0/v2y2021i2id16127.html

Hazards Analysis in the Canton La Unión, Cartago, Costa Rica

Author

Listed:
  • Jorge Rodríguez Campos

    (Comisión Nacional de Prevención del Riesgo y Atención de Emergencias, Costa Rica)

  • Mario Fernandez Arce

    (Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica)

Abstract

The hazards from the canton La Unión were identified, analyzed, and described. A value ranging from 0 to 1 was assigned to each threat in the Minimum Geostatistical Units (MGU), to estimate the dangers density in the study area. This article shows the spatial distribution of such index. The manifestation of several natural and anthropic events forces to investigate and understand such processes, in order to improve Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in the Canton and provide inputs to the Local Government to carry out such work. The investigation required a bibliographic review to know the impact of past incidents, field surveys to determine the spatial extent of the threats, and the calculation of a hazard’s density index. According to the results, earthquakes are the main danger in La Union and the Center, South and West of the canton are the areas with the highest hazards density.

Suggested Citation

Handle: RePEc:epw:ejgeo0:v:2:y:2021:i:2:id:16127
DOI: 10.24018/ejgeo.2021.2.2.127
as

Download full text from publisher

File URL: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejgeo/article/view/16127
File Function: Abstract page
Download Restriction: no
File URL: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejgeo/article/download/16127/3803
File Function: Full text
Download Restriction: no
File URL: https://libkey.io/10.24018/ejgeo.2021.2.2.127?utm_source=ideas
LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
---><---

More about this item

Keywords

;
;
;
;
;

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Corrections

All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:epw:ejgeo0:v:2:y:2021:i:2:id:16127. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Support Team (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejgeo .

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.