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Knowledge, representations and sociocultural change. The "Sinzchi Warmi" intercultural association case, Comunidad Ancestral Puerto Santa Ana, Pastaza province (Ecuador)

open access: yesRevista de Antropología Social, 2018
In this paper we present a case study relating to a women association known as Sinzchi Warmi [brave women], in Pastaza province (Ecuador), which offers an account on knowledge, the coexistence of representations and social and cultural changes that have ...
Jairo Tocancipá-Falla   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Co-Occurrence Patterns of Common and Rare Leaf-Litter Frogs, Epiphytic Ferns and Dung Beetles across a Gradient of Human Disturbance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Indicator taxa are commonly used to identify priority areas for conservation or to measure biological responses to environmental change. Despite their widespread use, there is no general consensus about the ability of indicator taxa to predict wider ...
Bebbington, A. J.   +5 more
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Ecuador [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Ecuador’s total population numbers some 15,682,792 inhabitants, and includes 14 nationalities accounting for around 1,100,000 people, all joined together in a series of local, regional and national organisations. 60.3% of the Andean Kichwa live in six
Ortiz-T., Pablo
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Notes for a communicative history of the Kichwa-Saraguro: from kipa to mobile phone [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Se ha escrito mucho sobre los indígenas Saraguro, sin embargo, la aproximación tecnológica a estas comunidades kichwa, residentes en la zona interandina y amazónica ecuatorianas, es prácticamente inexistente. En este artículo, centrándonos en el teléfono
Martínez Suárez, Yolanda   +1 more
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Height and phytotelm size affect the invertebrate communities of epiphytic bromeliads in the Amazon rainforest

open access: yesEcological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 221-234, April 2026.
The height at which epiphytic bromeliads are found affects the invertebrate community composition within them. The size of epiphytic bromeliads is positively correlated with species richness of both aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates. Whether bromeliads were found in primary or secondary forest did not have a significant effect on the community of ...
Xaali O'Reilly‐Berkeley   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Localised Voices in the globalised Amazon: challenges of civil society building in Ecuador [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Civil society building efforts in Ecuador have provided the Achuar and Kichwas of the Amazon with a voice. This is particularly relevant given the global significance of the Amazon, which makes it essential that local voices are empowered to have a say ...
Wallis, Brian (Brian)
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Agribusiness Supply Chains: From Green to Regenerative

open access: yesJournal of Supply Chain Management, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 105-124, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Supply chain management has traditionally prioritized maximizing profits, creating persistent tensions with social‐ecological systems (SES) despite sustainability efforts. Regeneration offers an alternative, ecocentric approach, yet it remains unclear how supply chains can operate within SES boundaries.
Diana Trujillo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local perceptions as a guide for the sustainable management of natural resources : empirical evidence from a small-scale society in Bolivian Amazonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Research on natural resource management suggests that local perceptions form the basis upon which many small-scale societies monitor availability and change in the stock of common-pool natural resources. In contrast, this literature debates whether local
Cabeza, Maria   +5 more
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Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the political ecology of subaltern existence at the urban cutting edge of our apocalyptic present, in the case of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. Through an ethnographically surrealist montage of multiple elements across the themes of accumulation, architecture, and art, cannibal salvage expenditure emerges as a subversive ...
Japhy Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

China in Latin America: lessons for South-South cooperation and sustainable development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This repository item contains a report from the Boston University Global Economic Governance Initiative. The Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) is a research program of the Center for Finance, Law & Policy, the Frederick S.
Gallagher, Kevin P.   +3 more
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