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This conference (Foro Internacional Glaciares: el reto de la investigación al servicio de la sociedad en el marco del cambio climático) will bring together scientists, practitioners and representatives from public and governmental institutions to exchange experiences, recent progress and coordinate current and future initiatives in the field of glaciology and high mountains in Peru...
A session titled “Networks for Sustainable Monitoring of Global Environmental Change” is being organized by CONDESAN, with support from the Mountain Research Institute. The session looks to use case studies of ongoing monitoring networks in global environmental change, showing how the role of networks has been important in their organization and how their...
A workshop held in October 2012 in Lima, Peru, brought together more than 40 scientists and policy makers working in Andean forest ecosystems, one of the richer and most threatened ecosystems of the world. Among the various results of the workshop, there is the formation of the network “Red de Bosques Andinos”. The goals of the network include to stimulate scientific research in...
Two complementary on-going research projects aim to understand the likely relationships between climate change, human migration and the (re)emergence of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) in the Andes-Amazon region. The FAPESP project focus on Climate Change and the (re)emergence of both American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) and Bartonellosis (Enfermedad de Carrion), in the South-western...
In the ELLA Programme, we have systematized, analysed and produced development knowledge of evidence and lessons from Latin America in selected themes in environmental management, economic development and governance.
This Working Paper considers some of the various drivers behind countries’ climate compatible development strategies and their incentives for engaging on this agenda. It also looks some of the challenges and disincentives to promoting climate compatible development reforms and considers some of the options for overcoming these. The paper provides an introductory overview, based on CDKN’s...
Land reforms in Liberia must learn from and protect communities' customary land and resource rights, urge Grand Cape Mount communities in new report
Global Water Partnership (GWP) launched of a new publication, Water: catalyst for cooperation, profiling 15 water co-operation initiatives developed by GWP and its Regional and Country Water Partnerships across the world.
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