Editorial Foreword;


Foreword;


Preface;


1.Climate and geomorphologic related disasters in Latin America (NO. Garcia);


2. Geomorphology as a Tool f or Analysis of Seismogenic Sources in Latin America and the Caribbean (C .H. Costa, F.A. Audemard M., L. Audin and C. Benavente);


3. The changing coastlines of South America (F.I. Isla and E.J. Schnack);


4. Disasters i n Mexico and Central America: a little bit more than a Century of Natura l Hazards (I. Alc ntara-Ayala);


5. Venezuela: The Construction of Vulnerability and its Relation to the High Seismic Risk (J. Laffaille,


C. Ferrer and K. Laffaille);


6. Natural hazards and human induced disasters triggered by intense and epi sodic tropical rains in the Venezuelan mountains (M. Bezada);


7. Convulsive events, a widespread hazard in the Colombian Andes (M. Her melin and Natalia Hoyos);


8. Geomorphology of natural and huma n induced disasters in Ecuador (F. Sarmiento);


9. Natural haza