Preventive Resettlement of Populations at Risk of Disaster - GFDRR

Preventive Resettlement of Populations at Risk of Disaster: Experiences from Latin America
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This book was originally published by The World Bank and Global Facility for Disaster Risk and Recovery (GFDRR) in Spanish as
Reasentamiento preventivo de poblaciones en riesgo de desastre: Experiencias de América Latina in May 2011.
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Pública y Servicios), Argentina; the Municipal Housing Secretariat, São Paulo Major’s Office (Secretaria Municipal da Habitação da
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Preventive resettlement for populations at risk of disaster: Experiences from Latin America / Haris Sanahuja… [et al.]; Elena Correa
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121 p. : xx.
1. Preventive resettlement – Argentina – Case study. – 2. Preventive resettlement – Brazil – Case study. – 3. Preventive resettlement
– Colombia – Case study. – 4. Preventive resettlement –Guatemala – Case study. – 5. Argentina – Preventive resettlement –
Case study. – 6. Brazil – Preventive resettlement – Case study. – 7. Colombia – Preventive resettlement – Case study. – 8. Guatemala
– Preventive resettlement – Case study. – I. Sanahuja, Haris, coaut. – II. Zelmeister, Ignacio, coaut. – III. Pérez, Rómulo, coaut. –
IV. Scombatti, Marilia, coaut. – V. Marques, Ronaldo, coaut. – VI. Poveda Gómez, Narzha, coaut. – VII. Aguirre Cantero, Eduardo,
coaut. – VIII. Carmona, Sergio Iván, coaut. – IX. Correa, Elena, comp.