Historias de raza y nación en América Latina

Con esta colección, la Fundación Universidad del Norte y la Gobernación del Atlántico rinden homenaje a quien es considerado uno de los más destacados académicos e investigadores de Colombia. El rescate de la obra completa del profesor José Agustín Blanco Barros permitirá difundir –en el marco de la celebración del Bicentenario de la Independencia y del Centenario de la creación el Departamento del Atlántico– una variedad de artículos, ensayos y libros sobre temas geográficos, históricos y paleográficos que ilustran las condiciones del Caribe colombiano, y de manera...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Nuestro país es vulnerable a eventos naturales extremos que se verán intensificados con el cambio climático. El impacto social, económico y ambiental de lluvias muy abundantes, inundaciones y sequías, así como de la elevación del nivel del mar se siente en nuestro territorio de manera amplia y recurrente, sin dejar de mencionar el riesgo que representan fenómenos geofísicos como el reciente sismo que causó tanto sufrimiento y pérdidas cuantiosas. Los autores de este libro subrayan la importancia de la gestión del riesgo de desastres para México y argumentan que la...