A Region at Risk: Opportunities, Gaps, and Challenges for Social Disaster Research in Central America

 

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Autoren: Cabrales Domínguez, Sergio, López Castillo, Walter
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publikationsdatum:2025
Beschreibung:Central America is a region with multiple and growing risks from natural disasters. This study reviews how social sciences, mainly in the US and Central America, have approached the study of the issue in the isthmus. It finds considerable attention to long-standing events but insufficient research on recent disasters. Thanks to the regression analysis of data from the LAPOP 2021 survey, this paper confirms the validity and relevance of the topic. For example, it finds that the most vulnerable Central Americans have a greater risk perception and have suffered more from these events. The social study of Central American disasters has the potential to facilitate transnational and transdis-ciplinary dialogues and challenge the understanding of these events at a global level.
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Sprache:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/60598
Online Zugang:https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/anuario/article/view/60598
Stichwort:natural disaster
Central America
risk
vulnerabilities
sociology of disaster
desastre natural
Centroamérica
riesgo
vulnerabilidad
sociología del desastre