Noticias
04/02/2016
Two recent studies offer complementary accounts of the ways that glacier retreat and other impacts of climate change have displaced indigenous people from their communities in the Peruvian Andes. One describes the people who have left as refugees, the other as migrants. Both emphasize the seriousness and apparent irreversibility of this large population movement
Teófilo Altamirano’s book,Environmental Refugees: Climate Change and Involuntary Migration, draws on methods and concepts from anthropology to explore displacement from a glacier region in central Peru. It links glacier retreat...
03/02/2016
La facilitación es un arte que implica un conjunto de conocimientos, herramientas y actitudes. Nuestro Gru po Consultor ofrece cursos de diseño metodológico y facilitación participativa con la metodología Visualización en Procesos Participativos (VIPP) co-creada por Maruja Salas y Timmi Tillmann”, con más de 40 años de trayectoria internacional, en dos modalidades
Los cursos de diseño metodológico y facilitación participativa con la metodología internacional "Visualización en Procesos Participativos" (VIPP), que se organizarán durante el 2016 en Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia, aporta a procesos...
03/02/2016
La Corte Constitucional decidirá si artículos del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo, incluido el que permite la minería en páramos, van en contra de la Constitución.
Después de más de seis meses de que el presidente de la República, Juan Manuel Santos, sancionara el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo (PND) 2014-2018, la sala plena de la Corte Constitucional decidirá este miércoles una de las dos demandas por inconstitucionalidad que cursan contra esa ley, que fue interpuesta por el Polo Democrático y está a cargo de la magistrada Gloria Stella Ortiz.
Los demandantes se fueron en contra de siete...
03/02/2016
A new Yale-led study offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the biogeochemistry of watersheds. The framework combines hydrologic and biogeochemical theory to test well established concepts in watershed ecology.
The paper, published in the journal Ecology, suggests that heavy weather events, though infrequent, cause an inordinate amount of organic material to bypass headwater systems, pushing them downstream into larger rivers, coastal waters, and inland basins.
This phenomenon can have profound ecological implications on the quality of water systems worldwide and the...
03/02/2016
Threats to global food security present a challenge that most agree is only getting worse. The possibility of achieving a food secure world without sustainable development is highly debated in policy and academia. A recently published article in the journal of Public Health Nutrition explores this notion along with the evolution of food security from the 1970s to present day. In an analysis of more than 80 articles, the authors posit that one cannot exist without the other. This conclusion sheds light on previously unidentified challenges to food security, such as rural transportation,...
03/02/2016
As the effects of climate change become increasingly apparent, restoring landscapes to ensure that they – and the communities that rely upon them – are able to deal with these changes is becoming a global necessity. Countries are coming together to increase knowledge and understanding of climate change and to build capacity to implement mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Despite increasing efforts, global emissions continue to rise. Dealing with the effects of a changing climate requires adapting to these changes and simultaneously mitigating the causes. Mitigation focuses on...
02/02/2016
Desde 1900 se ha destruido más del 64% de los humedales del planeta; la pérdida es aún mayor en algunas regiones, sobre todo en Asia.
Como cada 2 de febrero -desde 1997-, hoy se conmemora el Día Mundial de los Humedales, fecha en la que se adoptó -allá por 1971- la Convención sobre los Humedales.
Las investigaciones más recientes indican que desde 1900 se ha destruido más del 64% de los humedales del planeta; la pérdida es aún mayor en algunas regiones, sobre todo en Asia, explica en una nota Christopher Briggs, secretario general de la Convención de Ramsar.
Además de la pérdida de...
02/02/2016
The Rio Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, brought the principles of sustainable forest management to the forefront of the quest to safeguard tropical forests and the habitat and carbon reserves they contain, while also providing for the social and economic needs of the people who depend on them.
But a team of scientists is now questioning whether sustainable forest management might not be as effective as believed, based on their analysis of timber concessions in the Central African nation of the Republic of Congo. Specifically, they argue that SFM may not have led to...
02/02/2016
Placing a value on ecosystem services in a way consistent with national accounts, many say, is a critical step towards sustainable ecosystem management.
Systems of National Accounts (SNA) used in many countries already incorporate some of the benefits society obtains from ecosystem services, such as food production. However, SNAs exclude many benefits due to the challenges that accounting for all ecosystem services represent, e.g. the feasibility of valuing the capacity of ecosystems to generate services and its flow in a monetary fashion. Ecosystem accounting seeks to provide ways in...
02/02/2016
Los procesos estaban relacionados con lotes de hidrocarburos, proyectos mineros y otros.
Desde la aprobación del reglamento de la Ley de Consulta Previa se han implementado 22 procesos, de los cuales 18 han resultado en acuerdos que han beneficiado a más de veinte pueblos indígenas, precisó el Ministerio de Cultura.
Mediante un comunicado, el Ministerio de Cultura del Perú informó que los referidos procesos estaban relacionados con políticas nacionales, lotes de hidrocarburos, proyectos mineros, de infraestructura y áreas naturales protegidas.
Además de generar beneficios para más de...