El artículo plantea la importancia de integrar el concepto de cuenca a la distribución de los recursos. Se propone integrar un trabajo detallado por cuenca que involucre el cálculo del caudal de agua, la variación de la napa freática, el caudal ecológico, los volúmenes de erosión y la…
This paper analyzes the relationship between land property rights and household labor allocation. It posits that land titling has two opposite effects on labor decisions. On one hand, enhancement of tenure security should lead to reductions in guarding requirements and to increases in the hours…
Estados, transnacionales, inversionistas locales, capitales mixtos, cada vez es mayor el número de actores interesados en comprar tierras. La carrera por la adquisición de este recurso tiene para cada uno de ellos un doble atractivo, por un lado acumular un bien escaso y por otro comenzar a…
En la Sección de Estudios Internacionales en el Instituto Noruego de Investigación Regional y Urbana (NIBR) empezaron hace poco un proyecto de investigación llamado “Cómo la formalización en Perú disminuyó la desigualdad en género de propiedad de la tierra y el impacto sobre el empoderamiento de…
Se hace un estudio sobre la Comisión de Formalización de la Propiedad Informal (Cofopri), su funcionamiento es estudiado a través de su estructura, diseño, naturaleza jurídica y propósito de creación. El programa de formalización que ejecutó es examinado mediante el análisis de diversos estudios…
Between 2005 and 2009, the EU-financed project ForLive set out to analyse promising local forest management initiatives in the Amazon Basin in four countries: Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Researchers aimed to identify locally viable practices that benefit livelihoods and ecological…
Between 2005 and 2009, the EU-financed project ForLive set out to analyse promising local forest management initiatives in the Amazon Basin in four countries: Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Researchers aimed to identify locally viable practices that benefit livelihoods and ecological…
Information on water use is required for political, economic and academic decision making on issues affecting everyone?s life. Owing to fi nancial constraints, it is diffi cult to have complete and comprehensive information on everything related to water. Techniques and methodologies are,…
The tree species composition of silver fir and beech forests has changed in space and time due to a number of direct and indirect natural and anthropogenic causal factors. Forming silvicultural guidelines, therefore, requires a sufficient understanding of the ecological, historical, economic and…
Broad interpretation of land use and forest cover studies has been limited by the biophysical and socio-economic uniqueness of the landscapes in which they are carried out and by the multiple temporal and spatial scales of the underlying processes. We coupled a land cover change approach with a…
This book explores the relationship between gender and land, the gendered implications of globalisation on social relations and resource control, and the workings of global capital. Its central focus is examination of globalisation and how the associated changes in land use and tenure affect…