Carreño, Martha-Liliana; Cardona, Omar; Barbat, Alex - In: Natural Hazards 40 (2007) 1, pp. 137-172
Risk has been defined, for management purposes, as the potential economic, social and environmental consequences of hazardous events that may occur in a specified period of time. However, in the past, the concept of risk has been defined in a fragmentary way in many cases, according to each...