Browsing by Subject "Peru"
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Anemia Etiology in the Peruvian Amazon: a cross-sectional study
(2019)Background: Understanding the multifactorial causes of anemia on a population level is important for creating effective interventions that mitigate poor health outcomes associated with anemia, particularly in regions where ... -
Anthropology. New World monkey origins.
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Anxious Citizenship: Insecurity, Apocalypse and War Memories in Peru's Andes
(2007-05-10)The war between the Peruvian state and the Maoist Shining Path rebels began in the Department of Ayacucho, an area with a majority of indigenous Quechua- speaking peasant villages. After twenty years of violence ... -
Application of Global Value Chains to Seafood Sustainability: Lessons from the mahi mahi industries of Ecuador and Peru
(2014-04-25)Fish products have become the most traded food commodities worldwide but wild fish stocks face ever-increasing pressure from rising demand (Smith et al., 2010). Over 75% of the world’s fisheries are currently either fully ... -
Concordance Between the Generation 3 Point-of-Care Tampon (Pocket) Digital Colposcope and Standard-of-Care Colposcope Using Acetic Acid and Lugol’s Iodine Images in Lima, Peru
(2017)Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of death for women worldwide with 85% of deaths occurring in low and middle-income countries, despite being both preventable and treatable if detected early enough. The burden ... -
Distribution, Transport, and Control of Mercury Released from Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Madre de Dios, Peru
(2016)Mercury (Hg) is a globally circulating heavy metal released through both natural and anthropogenic sources. The largest anthropogenic source of mercury to the global atmosphere is artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM). ... -
Economic Valuation of Environmental Impacts of a 2D Seismic Survey in the Marañon River Basin, Peru
(2014-04-25)This study seeks to estimate in monetary terms the impacts on the ecosystem services of a 2D seismic Project in the rainforest region of Peru. Economic valuation of the environmental impacts of land use projects is an important ... -
Factors Associated with Distribution of Leishmaniasis Disease and Vectors in Madre de Dios, Peru
(2015)While the Madre de Dios department of Peru has the nation's highest leishmaniasis incidence, limited research on the disease and its sand fly vector exists in the region. Considering the diverse and adaptive nature of sand ... -
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports.
(PLoS One, 2011-04-19)Many factors such as poverty, ineffective institutions and environmental regulations may prevent developing countries from managing how natural resources are extracted to meet a strong market demand. Extraction for some ... -
Habitat Quality and Integrated Connectivity Analysis for Callicebus oenanthe in San Martin, Peru
(2015-04-24)The San Martín department of north central Peru is experiencing some of the highest ongoing deforestation rates in South America. The San Martín titi monkey (Callicebus oenanthe) is a critically endangered endemic to this ... -
Improved connectivity analysis using multiple low-cost paths to evaluate habitat for the endangered San Martin titi monkey (Callicebus oenanthe) in north-central Peru
(2017-04-28)Graph theoretic evaluations of habitat connectivity often rely upon least cost path analyses to determine the connectedness of any two habitat patches, based on an underlying cost surface. I present two improvements upon ... -
Malaria Risk Factors in the Peruvian Amazon: A Multilevel Analysis
(2012)A multilevel analysis of malaria risk factors was conducted using data gathered from community-wide surveillance along the Iquitos-Mazan Road and Napo River in Loreto, Peru. In total, 1650 individuals nested within 338 households ... -
Measuring The Effects of Mining on Peru's Public Health: Is The Apurimac Region Prepared To Assess Heavy Metal Exposure?
(2016-04-27)Peru’s Ministry of Health has approached Duke University because it seeks help with evaluating whether heavy metals exposure (in mining regions) is associated with adverse health outcomes. To aid in this effort, I have ... -
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 ... -
Promoting Investments in Ecosystem Services: the Case of the Peruvian Amazon
(2010-04-23)Natural capital and the Ecosystem Services (ES) that flow from it are essential to civilization as they provide both the conditions and the processes that sustain human life. Peru possesses the third largest tropical forest ... -
Public Childhoods: Street Labor, Family, and the Politics of Progress in Peru
(2012)This dissertation focuses on the experiences of children who work the streets of Lima primarily as jugglers, musicians, and candy vendors. I explore how children's everyday lives are marked not only by the hardships typically ... -
The Impact of Flooding on Malarial Transmission within Roadway Communities in the Peruvian Amazon
(2014)Severe flooding inundated the lowlands of Peru between 2011 and 2012. The rainfall and ensuing elevation in river levels coincided with a marked increase in human malaria. This study analyzes sampled Anopheles mosquitoes ... -
Volume and Geographical Distribution of Ecological Research in the Andes and the Amazon, 1995-2008
(2011)The Andes range and the Amazon basin represent the most diverse biological community on earth and the largest tropical forest on earth, respectively, but they are historically understudied by biologists. In this paper we ...
