andean forest
En esta época, prácticamente toda iniciativa, por el mero hecho de existir, se convierte en “opuesta” a otra y por eso tiene defensores y detractores. Ni siquiera el aparentemente neutro tema de la recuperación de tierras degradadas escapa a esa dualidad. En efecto, hay los que...
This is an interview with Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Postdoctoral Fellow at World Agroforestry Centre, about her research project in the Apurimac region of the Peruvian Andes.
- In your own words, what is this project about?
The objective of...
Landscapes are a keystone in the study and synthesis of social and environmental processes. They are part of a wide range of approaches that explicitly integrate spatial heterogeneity, path dependency and fluxes and feedbacks between people and the resources and ecosystems they use....
During recent years we have received large amounts of information about how increased environmental temperatures are modifying prominent features of our planet. The general public is particularly aware of glacier melting in the poles and at high elevation mountains. However, there is...
That's at least according to a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which details how tropical tree species in the...
The Wapichan people in Guyana, South America, have received the prestigious Equator Prize from the United Nations...
Organized by Selene Baez. Consorcio para el Desarrollo de la Ecorregión Andina (CONDESAN). Programa de Bosques Andinos. Agencia Suiza para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación (...
