ReVista :: Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters

Coping with Calamity
Winter 2007
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• EDITOR'S LETTER
• HURRICANES OF HISTORY
  • The 1928 Hurricane and the Shaping of the Circum-Caribbean Region
     Stuart B. Schwartz
    
  • In the Shadow of the Winds: Rethinking the Meaning of Hurricanes
     Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
    
  • Hurricane Katrina and the Re-Latinization of New Orleans
     M. Christian Green
    
  • About Hurricanes and Other Vicissitudes
     Neida M. Jiménez
    
  • Photo Reflection: 1976 Earthquake in Guatemala
     Kedron Thomas
    
  • On Hurricanes: My Favorite Metaphor
     Jorge I. Dominguez
    
• TEMPEST, EARTHQUAKE, AND EMPIRE
  • The Jesuit and the Jew
     Kenneth Maxwell
    
  • Lessons from Lisbon
     Adam N. Khedouri
    
  • Environmental Stress and Rainmaking
     Karen Ordahl Kupperman
    (click here for Footnoted version)
  • Political Memory
     Francisco A. Ortega
    
  • After the Earthquake: Juan’s Life
     Roberto Gutiérrez
    (click here for Spanish version)
  • Scars
     Sergio Silva-Castañeda
    (click here for Spanish version)
• THE NATURE OF NATURAL DISASTERS
  • Natural Hazards
     Matt Pritchard
    
  • Deploying Wireless Sensors for Volcano Monitoring
     Matt Welsh
    
  • Climate Change
     Scot T. Martin
    
• CIVIL SOCIETY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY
  • Urban Poverty, Disasters and Local Government
     Héctor Silva
    (click here for Spanish version)
  • Hurricanes, Society and the Culture of Citizenship
     Rafael Hernández
    (click here for Spanish version)
  • Hurricane Stan and Social Suffering in Guatemala
     Kedron Thomas
    
  • Pinochet: General Earthquake
     Carmen Oquendo-Villar
    (click here for Spanish version)
  • Remembering Armero
     Juanita León
    
  • Hurricane isolated villagers but solidarity joined them, and us
     Mauricio Herrera
    
• HUMANITARIAN AID AND RISK ASSESSMENT
  • Seeking Higher Ground
     Jennifer Burtner
    
  • Accountable to Whom?: Whom do humanitarian agencies actually for?
     Peter Walker
    
  • Large-Scale Risks and Extreme Events
     Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
    
  • The Vanishing Biodiversity of the Brazilian Cerrados
     Juan Pablo Giraldo
    
  • Hurricane Mitch: a view from the ground
     Jennifer Burtner
    
• MAKING A DIFFERENCE
  • Library Grant to the Galapagos
     Frankie Chen
    
• BOOK TALK
  • What’s The Most Welcoming City?
     Lars Schoultz
    
  • Remedying Inequality
     Archana Sridhar
    
  • Understanding Venezuela
     John Lombardi
    
• READER FORUM