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Abstract We use new and published detrital zircon U‐Pb data (n > 10,000) from Oligocene‐Pliocene strata of intermontane basins of the western Colombian Andes and surrounding regions to study the evolution of sedimentary systems during the transition from arc collision/accretion to subduction.
Santiago León +5 more
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Performativity in the Atrato River rights of nature judgement orders
Abstract The Atrato River judgement is one of the groundbreaking decisions in rights of nature. A model for further legislation and case-law, the ruling advanced environmental guardianship, and envisaged democratic, pluralistic environmental management and restoration plans for degraded waterways.
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El trabajo comprende el listado, distribución en ambientes léntico y lótico, y un mapa sobre la distribución regional de la ictiofauna colectada en la cuenca media del río Atrato. Se hallaron ocho ordenes, 26 familias, 58 géneros y 93 especies. Se revela
Roman Valencia César
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Abstract The recognition of the right to a healthy environment as an autonomous and justiciable right in Advisory Opinion OC‐23/17 represents the turning point of the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights towards the adoption of an ecocentric approach.
Patricio Trincado Vera
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Of rivers, law and justice in the Anthropocene
Abstract Beginning in the 2010s, rivers have captured the legal imagination of judges, legislators and activists alike, as part of a rapidly growing phenomenon described by UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David Boyd as ‘a legal revolution that could save the world’.
John Page, Alessandro Pelizzon
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Water-Level Forecasting Based on an Ensemble Kalman Filter with a NARX Neural Network Model
It is fundamental, yet challenging, to accurately predict water levels at hydrological stations located along the banks of an open channel river due to the complex interactions between different hydraulic structures.
Jackson B. Renteria-Mena +2 more
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Deconstructing the mangrove carbon cycle: Gains, transformation, and losses
Abstract Mangroves are one of the most carbon‐dense forests on the Earth and have been highlighted as key ecosystems for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Hundreds of studies have investigated how mangroves fix, transform, store, and export carbon.
M. F. Adame +16 more
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Colombia is one of the hotspots regarding mosquito biodiversity and mosquito-transmitted diseases. Endemic, tropical diseases like malaria and dengue are major public health issues and novel viruses of zoonotic origin like Chikungunya and Zika are emerging.
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The Concept of Rights of Nature in Colombia and Ecuador: Lessons for a ‘Good Life’ in Urban Spaces
In Colombia and Ecuador, the concept of the rights of nature has found its way into both legislation and jurisprudence in recent years. It can be seen as the ‘juridification’ of the concept ‘buen vivir’ which transfers indigenous cosmovisions into law ...
Marie-Christine Fuchs
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Who can speak and listen to the Atrato river?
This article draws on the ethnography of a Colombian court case that led to the recognition of the rights of the Atrato River. Beyond the shift in the legal framework within which rights of nature claim to operate – from an anthropocentric to an ecocentric one – the article asks whether rights of nature also imply a shift in the expertise that the ...
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