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The TIPNIS Conflict in Bolivia
Contexto InternacionalSoon after the formation of the Plurinational State of Bolivia in 2009, the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) became the epicentre of a conflict over the construction of a road, initiated by Evo Morales’s administration, that
Ana Carolina Delgado
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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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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.Tree canopy height is a key indicator of forest biomass and structure, yet accurate mapping across the Amazon remains challenging. Here, we generated a canopy height map of the Amazon forest at ~4.8 m resolution using Planet NICFI imagery and a deep learning U‐Net model trained with airborne LiDAR data.
Fabien H. Wagner +21 more
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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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Challenges in Recruiting Andean Indigenous Participants for Software Engineering Research
, 2023 This paper reports on the recruiting challenges we faced in our study on the factors influencing software engineering career choice of Andean indigenous. It also emphasizes that Indigenous people are hard-to-reach, hidden, and vulnerable samples.
Sánchez-Gordón, Mary +1 more
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Social Sustainability in Circular Bioeconomy Business Models: Insights From Argentina
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on circular bioeconomy business models (CBEBM) has largely prioritised environmental and economic aspects, leaving out the social pillar. To address this gap, this paper analyses to what extent and in what ways social sustainability is integrated into CBEBM, based on 12 cases from northern Argentina, a region with high potential for ...
Celina N. Amato +2 more
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Climate Change in the High Andes:implications and adaptation strategies for small-scale farmers [PDF]
, 2010 : Global climate change represents a major threat to sustainable farming in the Andes. Farmers have used local ecological knowledge and intricate production systems to cope, adapt and reorganize to meet climate uncertainty and risk, which have always ...
Dangles, O. +7 more
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Autoethnography as a Research Methodology in TESOL
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I discuss autoethnography as a qualitative research methodology that has been increasingly adopted by scholars in TESOL in the last decade. My goal is to introduce this methodology to colleagues who are preparing to use autoethnography in their research and I expect that introduction to take them to other resources in the ...
Bedrettin Yazan
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Conflict, Claim and Contradiction in the New Indigenous State of Bolivia [PDF]
, 2012 Recent conflict between indigenous people and a self-styled indigenous state in Bolivia has brought to the fore some of the paradoxes and contradictions within the concept of indigeneity itself. The contemporary politics of state sponsored indigeneity in
Canessa, A
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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