DesInventar: Databases and Applications Latin America and the Caribbean

INTRODUCTION

DesInventar is a conceptual and methodological development on disasters of all magnitudes and in a diversity of environments: local, national and regional.

All the inventories have the same variables to measure effects; The information is entered in the time scale and into a geo-referenced space level and the inventories are treated analytically by means of computer systems tools.

At the moment, databases in different applications exist: regional (Caribe and Centroamérica), nationals, locals, postdisasters and related to global climatic variability.