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People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1499-1519, May 2026.Abstract The expansion and intensification of human activities have increased interactions between people and wildlife. Interactions involving bears and other large carnivores are complex and can lead to conflicts. Promoting positive coexistence requires managing information, which is not always available.
Roxana Rojas‐VeraPinto +2 more
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A holistic approach to enhance the use of neglected and underutilized species: the case of Andean grains in Bolivia and Peru [PDF]
, 2014 The IFAD-NUS project, implemented over the course of a decade in two phases, represents the first UN-supported global effort on neglected and underutilized species (NUS).
Amaya, K. +5 more
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Annals of Human Genetics, Volume 90, Issue 3, Page 202-214, May 2026.ABSTRACT Background and Aims Sherpa highlanders exhibit remarkable tolerance to hypoxia, most likely due to genetic adaptations shaped by natural selection at high altitude. This study examined the roles of endothelial PAS domain protein 1 (EPAS1) and egl‐9 family hypoxia‐inducible factor 1 (EGLN1) in the genetic mechanisms underlying this adaptation ...
Yunden Droma +5 more
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Contested Territories: Water Rights and the Struggles over Indigenous Livelihoods
International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2012 This paper examines the threats to Indigenous water rights and territories in the Andean countries. It analyzes how water and water rights are embedded in Indigenous territories, and how powerful actors and intervention projects tend to undermine local ...
Rutgerd Boelens +5 more
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Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Social Conflicts in the Andes [PDF]
, 2013 Latin American ...
Altamirano, Teófilo
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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 171-182, May 2026.Abstract In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent ...
Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García
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Articulating Sovereignties: Struggles for Subaltern Hegemony in Ecuador and Bolivia
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the cycles of articulation and disarticulation between working‐class and indigenous‐campesino movements in Ecuador and Bolivia. While the former advances national‐popular sovereignty, aiming to strengthen the state against imperialism, the latter defends community‐territorial sovereignty against internal colonialism ...
Diego Andreucci +3 more
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Dictionaries, Vocabularies, and Grammars of Andean Indigenous Languages [PDF]
, 2008 This essay presents linguistic materials which were produced in the colonial era in the Andes in the context of Christianization to assist priests learning the indigenous languages. Considering that descriptive linguistics in general and the description of languages other than Latin and Greek in particular had only just started to develop in Europe ...
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Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Sometimes politicians must take indelible public stances under unresolved uncertainty about an outcome they cannot control, for example, consider the minority on a proposal that is bound to pass. Counter to the expectations that party platforms converge, and that rational individuals balk at betting against one another, we show this can lead ...
Jorge Fabrega, John Londregan
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