
handle: 10261/82767
[ES] El trabajo pretende el estudio y cuantifi cación del riesgo relativo en una geografía física propensa a los fenómenos naturales y con una alta proporción de población en situación de pobreza habitacional, del que se deduce que el riesgo en la zona conformada por nueve países –de Centroamérica y el Caribe- es extraordinariamente superior a la media mundial. Del primer aspecto se ocupan los apartados relativos a delimitar el ‘Área de Estudio’: fenómenos naturales y población bajo riesgo. El segundo aspecto se aborda estudiando la situación material objetiva en la que se alojan y viven casi 160 millones de habitantes: Pobreza en el ‘Área de Estudio’. En base a información contrastada se articulan los fundamentos en los que se sustenta la extraordinaria presencia y gravedad de los fenómenos ‘socionaturales’ en la zona. De la interrelación entre grado de exposición y pobreza se concluye que son los causantes principales de los desastres destructores de la zona, que en un período de 33 años (1972 a 2005) arrojan una media anual de 20.000 pérdidas humanas, 250.000 damnifi cados directos y del orden de 1.000 millones de dólares en daños materiales.
[EN] This paper analyses and quantifi es the relative level of risk in a geographical area that is vulnerable to natural phenomena and with a high proportion of its population in a situation of residential poverty. We deduce that the hazard in the area, composed of nine Central American and Caribbean countries, is signifi cantly higher than the world average. The fi rst aspect is covered in the sections Population at risk and Natural phenomena, which analyse the ‘study area’. The second aspect is covered by Poverty in the ‘study area’, various analyses of the physical situation in the target area, inhabited by almost 160 million people. Contrasted information is used as a basis for the concepts underpinning the extraordinary presence and seriousness of the socio-natural phenomena in this area. The interrelationship between th degree of vulnerability and poverty leads to the conclusion that these are the primary causes of disaster-related destruction, which in a 33 year period (1972 to 2005) has left an annual average of 20,000 human lives lost, 250,000 directly affected and approximately ten billion dollars in material damage.
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Centroamérica y El Caribe, Habitabilidad básica, El Caribe, poverty, desastres, vulnerability, construcciones precarias, Vulnerability, Centroamérica, natural phenomena, Basic habitability, disasters, precarious constructions, Disasters, Desastres, fenómenos naturales, The Caribbean, riesgos, Risks, habitabilidad básica, Pobreza, Poverty, vulnerabilidad, pobreza, basic habitability, Central America, Natural phenomena, Fenómenos naturales, Construcciones precarias, Precarious constructions, Vulnerabilidad, risks, Riesgos
Centroamérica y El Caribe, Habitabilidad básica, El Caribe, poverty, desastres, vulnerability, construcciones precarias, Vulnerability, Centroamérica, natural phenomena, Basic habitability, disasters, precarious constructions, Disasters, Desastres, fenómenos naturales, The Caribbean, riesgos, Risks, habitabilidad básica, Pobreza, Poverty, vulnerabilidad, pobreza, basic habitability, Central America, Natural phenomena, Fenómenos naturales, Construcciones precarias, Precarious constructions, Vulnerabilidad, risks, Riesgos
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