Browsing by Subject "Colombia"
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A Generalized Framework for CBA of Asbestos Bans with Case Study in Colombia
(2019-04-26)Asbestos is a group of fibrous minerals that can cause serious cancers and other negative health effects, usually decades after exposure. While the future health impacts of today’s asbestos use have become clear over the ... -
A Poetics of Globalism: Fernando Vallejo, the Colombian Urban Novel, and the Generation of `72
(2011)This thesis explores the confluence and clashes between local and global cultural flows in Latin America through the multiple literary movements and tendencies for which the Colombian author, Fernando Vallejo, acts as a ... -
Elevational Ranges of Montane Birds and Deforestation in the Western Andes of Colombia.
(PloS one, 2015-01)Deforestation causes habitat loss, fragmentation, degradation, and can ultimately cause extinction of the remnant species. Tropical montane birds face these threats with the added natural vulnerability of narrower elevational ... -
Intermedial Sutatenza: Media[ted] Narratives of Community-Making in Rural Colombia
(2019)In mid-twentieth century, Colombia’s illiteracy rate was 40% with numbers close to 80% in the rural areas. These areas lacked access to formal education and were isolated from the urban centers due to poor road infrastructure. ... -
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 ... -
Realism, Race and Citizenship: Four Moments in the Making of the Black Body, Colombia and Brazil, 1853 - 1907
(2010)Realism, Race and Citizenship: Four Moments in the Making of the Black Body, Colombia and Brazil, 1853 - 1907 investigates the visual and literary mechanisms used to refurbish racial and social hierarchies in Brazil and ... -
Setting practical conservation priorities for birds in the Western Andes of Colombia.
(Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2014-10)We aspired to set conservation priorities in ways that lead to direct conservation actions. Very large-scale strategic mapping leads to familiar conservation priorities exemplified by biodiversity hotspots. In contrast, ... -
The Bittersweet Coast: Environments of War and Aftermath in Colombia
(2015)How do people rebuild their lives, livelihoods, and community in the same location where brutal conflict has occurred? My research in San Carlos, Colombia--a rural community emerging from a decade of violence--investigates ... -
The Minted-City: Money, Value, and Crises of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (1822-1903)
(2020)This dissertation analyzes how Colombian criollos – people of real or imagined European origins – dealt with the problem of representing value as part of their efforts to build a “civilized” nation during the nineteenth ... -
Using Bird Distributions to Assess Extinction Risk and Identify Conservation Priorities in Biodiversity Hotspots
(2016)Habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation threaten the World’s ecosystems and species. These, and other threats, will likely be exacerbated by climate change. Due to a limited budget for conservation, we are forced to ... -
Yopo, ethnicity and social change: a comparative analysis of Piaroa and Cuiva yopo uset.
(Journal of psychoactive drugs, 2011-01)Most Orinocoan ethnic groups, including the Cuiva and the Piaroa, use yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff derived from the seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree. This study contrasts Piaroa and Cuiva attitudes toward and uses ...
