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The Andean Community

2020
Abstract This chapter analyses international parliamentarization in the Andean region. Andean integration has seen, first, the creation of the Andean Pact without an international parliamentary institution (IPI) in 1969, followed by the establishment of the Andean Parliament in 1979 and a slight IPI empowerment in conjunction with the ...
Frank Schimmelfennig, Thomas Winzen, Tobias Lenz, Jofre Rocabert, Loriana Crasnic, Cristina Gherasimov, Jana Lipps, Densua Mumford   +7 more
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Community Structure in High Andean Herpetofaunas

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-), 1980
Density, diversity, niche breadth and niche overlap were obtained and analyzed for amphibians and reptiles in 10 study sites above tree line in the Andes. Two to eight species were found at each site; a total of 1373 specimens of 33 species was studied. Species richness shows no clear latitudinal trends; there is a trend for increasing species richness
Jaime E. Pefaur, William E. Duellman
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The Andean Community

2012
10.25540/XMQF-72Z0 ; American Society of International Law ; International Organisations Bulletin: UNAIDS ; 6 ...
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Stunting in an Andean community: Prevalence and etiology

American Journal of Human Biology, 1998
The magnitude and potential causes of linear growth retardation in a rural agricultural community of the Ecuadorian Andes are examined. Growth stunting is common in this population, as height-for-age Z-scores (HAZ) for boys and girls 1-5 years average -2.2 and -2.0, respectively. Dietary analyses suggest multiple nutrient deficiencies. The diet appears
Peter R, Berti, William R, Leonard, Wilma J, Berti   +2 more
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Landscape, Gender, and Community: Andean Mountain Stories

Anthropological Quarterly, 1999
On the southern Bolivian altiplano the fight between a male and a female mountain peak marked the region in distinctive ways, defining physical space and humans' relationship to it. Considering landscape from the perspective of one community, we learn about the reworking of history and gender, and individuals' ability to use the story creatively ...
Lynn Sikkink, Braulio Choque M.
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Maritime Communities and Coastal Andean Urbanization:

2019
Chapter 6 discusses the Early Horizon, first millennium BC site of Samanco (450 to 150 cal BC), near the shore in the Nepeña valley on the north coast of Peru. Fishing and shellfishing were important, as was agriculture, with maize as the most important crop. Samanco was a food production center supplying inland polities with subsistence goods from the
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conflict and cooperation in Andean communities

American Ethnologist, 1975
This paper presents a framework for the analysis of cooperation and conflict based on surveys and anthropological studies of Peruvian rural communities and an examination of the literature on the nature of peasant communities (Redfield, Lewis, Foster, and others).
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Altitudinal zonation of Andean cryptogam communities

Journal of Biogeography, 2000
AbstractTo test whether cryptogamic plant communities in tropical Andean rain forests are distributed in floristically discrete communities corresponding to altitudinal belts, I subjected the elevational distribution of pteridophytes along two elevational gradients in Bolivia, and of bryophytes and lichens along two transects in Peru and Colombia (data
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The Andean Community of Nations

2015
This chapter provides a detailed account of the institutional and legal structures of the Andean Community, one of the oldest sub-regional organisations in Latin America. The structures and the legal system developed by the organisation resemble and take into account the structures and functions of the European Union.
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Andean Community of Nations (CAN)

2019
Abstract The idea that the nations of Latin America should undertake political and economic integration is not recent (see also → Regional Co-operation and Organization: American States). For a number of reasons, including the lack of commonalities among the countries seeking political or economic integration, these efforts have tended ...
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