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Cultural Influences on the Use of Biomedical Reproductive Healthcare in the Andean Highlands [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis demonstrates some of the many ways that indigenous women in the Andean highlands are influenced to utilize indigenous medical and biomedical reproductive healthcare services and contraceptive methods.
Hrbacek, Tiffany
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann +4 more
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Ruralité, ethnicité et montagne :
Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2009 In a Latin American context where indigenous populations have had to wait until the end of the XXth century to recover a certain visibility, the definition of Andean identity is still an issue.
Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary
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Chronic high‐altitude exposure and intracerebral hemorrhage: A novel perspective from the vascular‐immune‐neuronal network [PDF]
NeuroprotectionLong‐term chronic high‐altitude hypobaric hypoxia increases susceptibility to ICH, particularly among migrant populations lacking EPAS1/SENP1 adaptive genetic variants relative to high‐altitude indigenous residents. Persistent hypoxia initiates blood–brain barrier (BBB) breakdown, aberrant glial and immune activation, and progressive neuronal injury ...
Huang R +6 more
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Food plant diversity in a rapidly changing world
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Diversity in food plants is essential to human and planetary health. On farms, in diets, and in many other areas of food systems, this diversity has undergone enormous change globally, including significant decline. We describe major trends in how food plant diversity has been changing, note the responses from conservation communities, highlight gaps ...
Colin K. Khoury +8 more
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Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2008 This work discusses the origin and socio-cultural meaning of the system of traditional authorities present in the indigenous communities of the district of Pisac, Calca, Cuzco.
Beatriz Pérez Galán
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global decarbonization has positioned lithium as a strategic mineral for electric vehicles, battery storage, and low‐carbon development. Yet its extraction raises serious environmental, political, and justice concerns that complicate dominant narratives of clean energy progress.
Jacob Kwakye
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Rurality, ethnicity and mountain areas:
Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2009 In a Latin American context where indigenous populations have had to wait until the end of the XXth century to recover a certain visibility, the definition of Andean identity is still an issue.
Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability is a globally promoted concept, yet its meaning is often shaped by cultural context. Existing research has largely been informed by Western‐centric understandings of sustainability, leaving limited insight into how sustainability is interpreted across diverse cultural settings.
Caixia (Ivy) Gan, Denise Maria Conroy
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Contested Identities: Urbanisation and Indigenous Identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon [PDF]
, 2015 This thesis is a study of indigenous urbanisation and ethnic identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Taking as its focus Shuar urban residents of the rainforest city Sucúa, it argues that urban indigenous residents feel simultaneously more and less ...
O'Driscoll, Emma
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