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Abstract This article traces the historical evolution of risk perception around the Nuclear Research Centre Karlsruhe, Germany, from 1956 to 1997. It does so by targeting the evolution of water‐related risks. Federal hopes in the postwar era that the Nuclear Research Centre would bring progress and prosperity clashed with local values and local ...
Alicia Gutting
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Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913
Abstract This article examines the economics of innovation in livestock rearing during the first globalisation in Uruguay, the country with the most cattle per person in the world, both then and now. Using a new historical dataset of Uruguayan agriculture, the first one at a sub‐provincial level, I exploit regional differences in the adoption of cattle
Emiliano Travieso
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Global urban development frameworks landing in Latin America: Insights from Ecuador and Bolivia
Summary Motivation The global urban development frameworks defined by the United Nations are circulating worldwide and a race towards their domestic adoption has arisen since the approval of the New Urban Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Francesca Blanc, Giancarlo Cotella
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Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Global Groundwater Solute Composition and Concentrations
Abstract Informed analysis of policies related to food security, global climate change, wetland ecology, environmental nutrient flux, element cycling, groundwater weathering, continental denudation, human health, and others depends to a large extent on quantitative estimates of solute mass fluxes into and out of all global element pools including the ...
Warren W. Wood +5 more
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The article describes a study conducted to determinecorrosion in reinforcement embedded in Portland cement(PC) mortars with different percentages of sewage sludgeash (SSA) admixtures.
E. G.ª Alcocel +4 more
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Propuesta de Corredor de Transporte Integrado Pavas-San José
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Ronald Flores
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El oso en la toponimia navarra
En este trabajo se hace mención al hallazgo de un enterramiento artificial de osos en una caverna navarra cuyos restos son datados por el carbono 14, en 8.600 años, fecha que demuestra el tratamiento dado a este animal por los habitantes de la zona ...
Isaac Santesteban
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Modelling migration dynamics of Common Cranes and Eurasian Spoonbills as hydrological flow
The migration of birds through a stopover site may be understood as a physical process of hydrological flow through a reservoir whose water levels rise and fall over a migration period. Hydrological flow models show promise as a way of integrating information on storage (daily counts of birds), inflow/outflow (number of birds arriving/departing each ...
Mark C. Drever +4 more
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La turbulencia en canales abiertos. Un enfoque lagrangiano
Los experimentos de Reynolds demostraron que superado un umbral del número de Reynolds el flujo del agua deja de seguir un patrón ordenado con trayectorias paralelas a los contornos, para convertirse en caótica.
David López-Gómez +1 more
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