Title
Disaster Risk and Sustainable Development
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
12-1-2011
Publisher
Routledge - Taylor & Francis
Abstract
In late October 2008 Hurricane Mitch slammed into Central America. Vulnerable communities and eroded landscapes suffered disastrous consequences as more than 10,000 people lost their lives. The worst single tragedy occurred when the heavy rains fell upon the Casita volcano’s deforested slopes, to produce a lahar consisting of mud, rocks and trees that sped down the steep slopes destroying more than 1,500 homes and killing an estimated 2,500 people including many living in the sleepy agricultural town of Posoltega (Gerulis-Darcy 2008).
Chapter of
The Routledge Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
Editor
B. Wisner
JC Gaillard
Ilan Kelman
Recommended Citation
Bacon, C. M. Disaster Risk and Sustainable Development. (2011). In Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction, B. Wisner, JC Gaillard, and Ilan Kelman (Eds) London & New York: Taylor & Francis.
Comments
DOI: 10.4324/9780203844236.ch14