IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/fem/femwpa/2013.78.html

An Overview of Urban Vulnerability to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in Central America & the Caribbean Region

Author

Listed:
  • Ebru A. Gencer

    (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy)

Abstract

Central America and the Caribbean is one of the most hazard-prone regions in the world. In addition, the region is heavily affected by poverty, unemployment, critical management of natural resources, and urban conglomeration in capital cities, especially in the Small Island Developing States, increasing vulnerability and risk to natural disasters and climate change. This paper examines characteristics of urban vulnerability to natural disasters and climate change in the Central America and the Caribbean Region. It argues that even though the region is not vast in size, the diversity within creates different characteristics of vulnerability to natural disasters and thus requires an extensive variety of disaster risk reduction approaches and adaptation techniques.

Suggested Citation

  • Ebru A. Gencer, 2013. "An Overview of Urban Vulnerability to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in Central America & the Caribbean Region," Working Papers 2013.78, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    • Handle: RePEc:fem:femwpa:2013.78
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://feem-media.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/NDL2013-078.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. repec:wbk:wbpubs:15125 is not listed on IDEAS
    2. repec:wbk:wbpubs:2512 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. repec:wbk:wbpubs:7376 is not listed on IDEAS
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Fernando Castillo-Cabrera & Thilo Wellmann & Dagmar Haase, 2020. "Urban Green Fabric Analysis Promoting Sustainable Planning in Guatemala City," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-26, December.
    2. Odunsi Oluwafemi & Daramola Oluwole & Agbabiaka Hazeez & Olowoporoku Oluwaseun & Awodele Daniel, 2018. "Coping with sanitary hazards in hostels: The influence of student’s socioeconomic variability," Environmental & Socio-economic Studies, Sciendo, vol. 6(2), pages 56-69, June.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    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:fem:femwpa:2013.78. 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.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with 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: Alberto Prina Cerai The email address of this maintainer does not seem to be valid anymore. Please ask Alberto Prina Cerai to update the entry or send us the correct address (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/feemmit.html .

    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.