This document was prepared by the Forum of Ministers and High Authorities of Housing and Urban Development of Latin America and the Caribbean (MINURVI), with the collaboration of the Human Settlements Unit of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division of the Economic Commission…
This report, produced by the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) of the World Bank, examines LAC’s challenges as the global economy settles to an equilibrium with lower growth and lower commodity prices. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the world economy and how…
This report, produced by the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) of the World Bank, examines LAC’s challenges as the global economy settles to an equilibrium with lower growth and lower commodity prices. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the world economy and how…
Oxfam is deeply concerned about the worsening levels of violence, murder and repression against the men and women defending human rights in Latin America. This situation is linked to an economic model that fosters extreme inequality and has a negative impact on people’s basic rights.
It is…
Degraded lands—lands that have lost some degree of their natural productivity through human activity—account for over 20 percent of forest and agricultural lands in Latin America and the Caribbean. Some 300 million hectares of the region’s forests are considered degraded, and about 350 million…
A spatial econometric model is used to link road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the moist tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon, and Myanmar. Using 250-meter cells, the model estimates the relationship between the rate of forest clearing in a cell and its distance to the…
A spatial econometric model is used to link road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the moist tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon, and Myanmar. Using 250-meter cells, the model estimates the relationship between the rate of forest clearing in a cell and its distance to the…
Section one of this report opens with a brief environmental history of Haiti, followed by an analysis of the current state of environmental conditions, and closes with an examination of contemporary human and landscape vulnerabilities to acute and chronic environmental degradation and extreme…
Section one of this report opens with a brief environmental history of Haiti, followed by an analysis of the current state of environmental conditions, and closes with an examination of contemporary human and landscape vulnerabilities to acute and chronic environmental degradation and extreme…
A dissertação “O Estado e a Questão Indígena: crimes e corrupção no SPI e na FUNAI (19641969)” tem foco na atuação do Estado em relação às populações indígenas durante as administrações do SPI e da FUNAI, com ênfase nos governos militares e seus aspectos políticos, econômicos e sociais. Nesse…
II Seminário Governança de Terras e Desenvolvimento Econômico (1.: 2016: Campinas, SP)
Coletânea [recurso eletrônico] / II Seminário Governança de Terras e Desenvolvimento Econômico, 4 a 5 de agosto de 2016, Campinas, SP – Campinas: Unicamp. IE, 2016.
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O objetivo do artigo é explorar as potencialidades de uma experiência etnográfica entre duas perspectivas de uso e cobertura da terra em assentamentos agrícolas na Amazônia: a técnico-científica, com a produção / classificação de imagens de satélite; e a nativa, com a produção / classificação de…