Browsing by Subject "Bolivia"
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An Economic Analysis of REDD Carbon Payments on Agricultural Expansion in Bolivia
(2009-04-22)As deforestation accounts for a significant percentage of worldwide carbon emissions, reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has been the focus of intense international debate. REDD programs offer ... -
Conscript Nation: Negotiating Authority and Belonging in the Bolivian Barracks, 1900-1950
(2012)<p>This dissertation examines the trajectory of military conscription in Bolivia from Liberals’ imposition of this obligation after coming to power in 1899 to the eve of revolution in 1952. Conscription is an ideal ... -
Estimating the Opportunity Cost of Lithium Extraction in the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
(2009-12-04)If the world plans to be moving away from oil based transport and towards hybrid and electric vehicles, lithium supply is the key factor. The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia holds the largest source of lithium in the world; however, ... -
Hydrologic variation and lake sediments: a reconstruction of the Bolivian Lowlands over the last 5,500 years
(2011-04-29)Sediment cores raised from the shallow floor of Lake Opabusu in the Bolivian Gran Chaco record 5500 years of hydrologic change in the surrounding region. Sediment samples were analyzed for their organic carbon and nitrogen ... -
Leapfrogging to a Green Building Code in Bolivia: A Policy Analysis
(2016-04-27)In Bolivia, building codes are a nascent development. This presents an opportunity to learn from the international community, possibly even “leapfrogging” directly to a code that incorporates environmentally sustainable ... -
Measuring the effects of compensation for environmental services interventions on social norms and conservation behavior in Bolivia
(2010-04-28)Payments for Environmental Services (PES) that give landowners a financial incentive to manage their land to provide valuable environmental services may provide an efficient way to conserve forest land and improve the livelihoods ... -
Oil and gas projects in the Western Amazon: threats to wilderness, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples.
(PLoS One, 2008-08-13)BACKGROUND: The western Amazon is the most biologically rich part of the Amazon basin and is home to a great diversity of indigenous ethnic groups, including some of the world's last uncontacted peoples living in voluntary ... -
POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONALIZATION OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY IN LATIN AMERICA
(2007-05)Nationalization is a particular type of organizational structure where the state or nation controls the industry as opposed to private companies or multinational organizations. If one imagines a continuum of organizational ... -
Potential health risks of trace elements in adobe brick houses in a historical mining town: Potosí, Bolivia
(2015-04-21)The objectives of this study were to investigate trace elements in adobe houses and to characterize potential health risks from children’s exposure in Potosí, Bolivia. The city of Potosí sits at the base of the Cerro Rico ... -
Residential metal contamination and potential health risks of exposure in adobe brick houses in Potosí, Bolivia.
(The Science of the total environment, 2016-08)Potosí, Bolivia, is the site of centuries of historic and present-day mining of the Cerro Rico, a mountain known for its rich polymetallic deposits, and was the site of large-scale Colonial era silver refining operations. ...
