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ABSTRACT Hantaviruses are emerging zoonotic pathogens of increasing global public health significance. Their epidemiological landscape is rapidly changing due to ecological disruption, climate variability, urbanisation, and evolving human–animal interfaces.
Francesco De Maria +5 more
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Composición de las exportaciones y crecimiento económico en la Comunidad Andina de Naciones
This paper analyzes the relation between export composition and economic growth. Based on the structure developed by Feder (1983) and Crespo-Cuaresma and Wörz (2005), we develop a panel data model involving Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela,
Silvia Juliana Reyes Camargo +1 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Against Pluriversality: Epistemology, Ideology, and the Disavowal of Capitalist Antagonism
ABSTRACT Recent years have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in decolonial pluriversality across critical geography, political ecology, and development studies. Advanced most prominently by scholars, such as Walter Mignolo and Arturo Escobar, pluriversality promises a world in which multiple ontologies, epistemologies, and lifeways coexist without
Ilan Kapoor
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Maquinical Ensembles in Fugue:
In this article we describe and comparatively analyze the performances of two community Andean music ensembles that represent two regions of Argentina with contrasting characteristics, and that constitute the two most important referents of groups of ...
Adil Podhajcer, Alejandra Vega
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La Comunidad Andina, cuyo origen se remonta a finales de los sesenta, es uno de los principales procesos de integración latinoamericana, el cual actualmente involucra a Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, y Perú. En 1993, como parte del proceso de integración de
Alberto Cerda Silva
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Abstract Ecuador's 2008 Constitution advanced an ambitious substantive economic vision through Buen Vivir (Good Living), recognizing a plural economy which encompasses private, public and solidarity economy (SE) sectors. This paper aims to analyze public procurement programs in Ecuador, one of the flagship Buen Vivir policies for SE promotion.
Maria‐José Ruiz‐Rivera +1 more
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ABSTRACT Healthy and stimulating early life environments are key for children to develop to their full potential. Household socioeconomic status (SES) is a strong predictor of early child development (ECD). This study used a rich new dataset from Andean Peru to examine the pathways through which household SES shapes ECD.
Kristen Hinckley +10 more
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Colombia and other tropical regions face a very high threat from torrential floods, which have resulted in over 25,000 deaths in a single event. Unfortunately, there is no comprehensive assessment methodology to zone and determine the magnitude of these disasters; therefore, this research aims to help fill this gap.
Carlos A. Buenahora Ballesteros +2 more
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Abstract Anthropogenic warming is expected to substantially modify the hydroclimate of South America, a region in which low‐level jets (LLJs) and mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are key components of moisture transport and precipitation. However, the responses of these systems to future climate change, including the relative roles of thermodynamic ...
Ye Mu +6 more
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