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Geografía aplicada en Iberoamérica

Autor: Carlos Garrocho Rangel , Gustavo D. Buzai

Número de Páginas: 525

El libro incluye 23 autores de diversos países iberoamericanos, además de una introducción y la reflexión final. Se divide en tres grandes apartados: el primero: El radar geográfico: aproximaciones de amplio espectro examina la Geografía Social, Económica y Ambiental; el segundo: Temas transversales estudia los ejes que cruzan las ciencias sociales especialmente integradas: terminología, análisis espacial, tecnologías vinculadas a la información geográfica y el tercero de ellos: Investigación aplicada, donde se presentan ejemplos de investigación de punta en la región iberoamericana. Los autores destacan que desde algunos años, los trabajos en ciencias sociales que le otorgan un papel estratégico a la dimensión espacial están registrando un enorme interés en el mundo y que Iberoamérica no escapa a esta tendencia. Esto se puede observar en la abundante producción científica de la región, derivada de este enfoque, en sus contribuciones claves al diseño de políticas públicas y privadas o en la consolidación de numerosas revistas especializadas (como EURE: Chile Economía, Sociedad y Territorio: México).

Trabajadores, sindicatos y nuevas redes de articulación social

Autor: Carlos Mejía

Número de Páginas: 44

Process Operations Safety

Autor: Darryl M. Yoes

Número de Páginas: 725

Provides crucial lessons in process safety operations, drawing from 100 global case studies Written from an operator's perspective, Process Operations Safety provides valuable information and education on the fundamentals of process operations safety by providing background on process safety and key leading operational management and equipment failures that have led to catastrophic process safety incidents, including loss of life. Written by an expert with more than five decades of industry experience, this book enables readers to learn how simple jobs that they perform every day can lead to catastrophic safety incidents without proper caution, protocol, and attention. A self-learning quiz is provided near each chapter's end, with answers to all questions provided in the Appendix. A listing of additional resources or reference material, many with internet links, is also included at the end of each chapter. Readers will find: Principles of process safety, properties of hydrocarbons, vapor cloud explosions (VCE), and boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE) Most frequent causes of significant process safety events in refining and petrochemical industries Causal factors in...

Code of the Hood

Autor: Alfred Blue Flowers

Número de Páginas: 166

Carlton was a thugged-out hustler that headed a mob of youngsters known as BDP (Boston Damn Projects) Crew. They were small time hustlers but notorious nonetheless and involved in everything from robbery, extortion, drugs, and murders. All the petty hustling stopped when Carlton hooked up with the largest cocaine dealer on the East Coast. Carlton had two problems: he was getting high on his own supply, and there was a rival drug dealer and vicious killer named Carlos (Dawg) who reigned over his crew of killers out of Piedmont Circle Projects. Latrice, who is Carltons lady, was innocent and unfamiliar to the life of hustlers out of the hood. She had been raised by her grandmother with Christian upbringing and was well educated and spiritually grounded. She enjoyed the money, gifts, and luxuries that came with being Carltons lady, but she had no street knowledge and was naive to the game. She was not mentally or physically strong enough to handle the chaos that was about to change her life forever. The Code of the Hood takes place in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and is full of drama, suspense, and excitement.

Encyclopedia of Crisis Management

Autor: K. Bradley Penuel , Matt Statler , Ryan Hagen

Número de Páginas: 1177

Although now a growing and respectable research field, crisis management—as a formal area of study—is relatively young, having emerged since the 1980s following a succession of such calamities as the Bhopal gas leak, Chernobyl nuclear accident, Space Shuttle Challenger loss, and Exxon Valdez oil spill. Analysis of organizational failures that caused such events helped drive the emerging field of crisis management. Simultaneously, the world has experienced a number of devastating natural disasters: Hurricane Katrina, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, etc. From such crises, both human-induced and natural, we have learned our modern, tightly interconnected and interdependent society is simply more vulnerable to disruption than in the past. This interconnectedness is made possible in part by crisis management and increases our reliance upon it. As such, crisis management is as beneficial and crucial today as information technology has become over the last few decades. Crisis is varied and unavoidable. While the examples highlighted above were extreme, we see crisis every day within organizations, governments, businesses and the economy. A true crisis differs from a "routine"...

Peru Investment, Trade Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Regulations

Autor: Ibp Usa

Número de Páginas: 295

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Peru Investment and Trade Laws and Regulations Handbook

The Political Economy of Agricultural Booms

Autor: Mariano Turzi

Número de Páginas: 164

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the political economy of soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, by identifying the dominant private and public actors and control mechanisms that have given rise to a corporate-driven, vertically integrated system of regionalized agricultural production in the Southern Cone of South America. The current agricultural boom surrounding soybean production has been aided by aggressive new agro-technologies, including biotechnology, leading to massive organizational changes in the agricultural sector and a significant rise in the power of special interest groups and corporations. Despite having similar initial production conditions, the pattern of economic activity surrounding soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, continues to be largely determined by the needs of the multinational corporations involved, rather than national considerations of comparative advantage. The author uses these findings to argue that the new international model of agricultural production empowers chemical and trading multinational companies over national governments.

Historical Dictionary of Paraguay

Autor: R. Andrew Nickson

Número de Páginas: 765

Land-locked Paraguay is one of the smaller nations of Latin America, whose global image is now changing very rapidly. In the process, the tired stereotype of a “forgotten” country comprising only military dictators, Nazis, and steam trains is being rapidly discarded. Indeed Paraguay is now no longer off the map and its unique history is attracting growing interest. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Paraguay covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Paraguay.

Peru Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information

Autor: Ibp, Inc.

Número de Páginas: 285

Peru Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information

Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 1

Autor: Prof Amir Kassam

Número de Páginas: 435

Reviews the development of CA systems globally and elaborates on science underlying the key CA system components. Assesses the latest evidence on improving soil and crop health and CA system resilience through the application of the core CA system principles. Includes case studies reviewing current science on optimising CA cropping systems involving cereal, legume, horticultural and tree crops as well as integrating livestock in CA systems.

Monsanto and Intellectual Property in South America

Autor: F. Filomeno

Número de Páginas: 200

Intellectual property is one of the most valuable forms of property in the modern world. From the perspective of companies producing knowledge-intensive goods, it encourages technological innovations for the benefit of humanity. For consumers of technology, it can be seen as a restriction on access to knowledge that inflates corporate rents. When genetic material crucial for human life is isolated from the commons, engineered and turned into private intellectual property, dissent is likely to emerge. Felipe Filomeno uses the case of Monsanto in South American soybean agriculture to theorize about the emergence and change of intellectual property regimes. Based on official documents, interviews, journalistic material, and academic literature, the study shows not only the relations of competition, coercion, and alliances that lie behind the post-1980 global upward ratchet of intellectual property protection but also the strategies that have the potential to reverse it.

Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Building Materials and Construction

Autor: Tan Kiang Hwee

Número de Páginas: 228

This book presents the proceedings of 10th International Conference on Building Materials and Construction held at Okinawa, Japan on 21-24 Feb 2025. It showcases the latest advancements in sustainable building materials, construction techniques, and architectural design. From groundbreaking research to practical applications, this book is a must-have resource for researchers, engineers, architects, and industry professionals looking to stay at the forefront of the construction industry.

The Class Struggle in Latin America

Autor: James Petras , Henry Veltmeyer

Número de Páginas: 311

The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the lens of class struggle. Focusing in particular on Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, the book identifies how the shifts and changing dynamics of the class struggle have impacted on the rise, demise and resurgence of neo-liberal regimes in Latin America. This innovative book offers a unique perspective on the evolving dynamics of class struggle, engaging both the destructive forces of capitalist development and those seeking to consolidate the system and preserve the status quo, alongside the efforts of popular resistance concerned with the destructive ravages of capitalism on humankind, society and the global environment. Using theoretical observations based on empirical and historical case studies, this book argues that the class struggle remains intrinsically linked to the march of capitalist development. At a time when post-neo-liberal regimes in Latin America are faltering, this supplementary text provides a guide to the economic and political dynamics of capitalist development in the region, which...

Above Ground Storage Tank Oil Spills

Autor: Merv Fingas

Número de Páginas: 373

Supply of oil and gas continues to increase as well as natural events such as hurricanes, while engineers and safety managers are not well trained on storage tank engineering and leak detection, one of the most vulnerable and least studied components of oil and gas storage equipment. Above Ground Storage Tank Oil and Chemical Spills gives engineers and researchers a training guide on tank design, tank failure modes and risk analysis. Bridging between research and application, this reference sends an integrated engineering approach backed by both corporate and academic contributors focused specifically on storage tanks, their spills, case histories, and technical aspects of leakage from storage tanks. Additional topics include regulations, differences between spills from storage tanks and other sources, and supported by extensive data and additional references. Above Ground Storage Tank Oil and Chemical Spills delivers a much-needed knowledge source for today's engineers and managers to keep supply and personnel safe. - Learn from both academic and corporate contributors, bridging between research and practical application - Understand lessons learned with case studies and...

Peru Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information

Autor: Ibp Usa

Número de Páginas: 284

Rental Housing Wanted

Autor: Vicente Fretes Cibils , Andrés Blanco Blanco , Andrés Muñoz Miranda , Alan Gilbert , Steven Webb , Eduardo Reese , Florencia Almansi , Julieta Del Valle , Suzana Pasternak , Camila D´ottaviano , Isabel Brain , Pía Mora , Francisco Sabatini , Jorge Enrique Torres Ramírez , Irene Vance , Pauline Mchardy , Clara Salazar , Claudia Puebla , Gabriela Ponce , René Flores , Julio Calderón Cockburn , Irene Chiavone , Miguel Macellaro , Adriana Silvera , Jeongseob Kim

Número de Páginas: 455

This book highlights the importance of renting and its potential to help solve the most pressing housing problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. Currently, 1 in 5 households in the region rent their homes, a trend which is most prevalent among the fastest-growing segments of the population, such as young people, single-person households and divorced people. This alternative can therefore help satisfy demand preferences and create greater residential mobility. Also, the quality of rented property is often similar to that of formal homes, even for households in the lowest income quintiles, proving it is an efficient and cost-effective alternative for resolving the qualitative and quantitative housing deficits in the region, suggesting that housing policies linked to better planning and improved territorial organization can lead to more dense, compact cities. For these reasons, the rental market may become a key instrument to compliment the region's housing policy.

Busco casa en arriendo

Autor: Andrés Blanco Blanco , Vicente Fretes Cibils , Andrés Muñoz Miranda , Alan Gilbert , Eduardo Reese , Florencia Almansi , Julieta Del Valle , Suzana Pasternak , Camila D'ottaviano , Isabel Brain , Pía Mora , Francisco Sabatini , Irene Vance , Pauline Mchardy , Clara Salazar , Claudia Puebla , Gabriela Ponce , René Flores , Julio Calderón Cockburn , Irene Chiavone , Miguel Macellaro , Adriana Silvera , Jeongseob Kim

Número de Páginas: 472

Esta investigación muestra la importancia del alquiler y su potencial en la solución de los principales problemas habitacionales. En la actualidad, 1 de cada 5 hogares de la región alquila su vivienda, siendo el alquiler aún más prevalente en los grupos de población de mayor movilidad tales como los jóvenes, los hogares unipersonales y los divorciados. Esto sugiere que apoyar el alquiler puede ayudar a satisfacer las preferencias de la demanda de mejor manera y a crear mayor movilidad residencial y laboral. Asimismo, la vivienda en alquiler presenta mejor calidad que la vivienda en propiedad informal y condiciones similares a las de la vivienda formal, incluso para los quintiles de ingreso más bajos, lo que demuestra que se trata de una alternativa eficiente y costo-efectiva para resolver los problemas de déficit cuantitativo y cualitativo de la región. Por otro lado, la vivienda en alquiler tiende a concentrarse en las áreas más centrales y consolidadas de las ciudades, lo que sugiere que una política de alquiler articulada con herramientas adecuadas de planificación urbana puede contribuir a generar ciudades más accesibles y compactas. Por estas razones, el...

El Mercosur como proceso muldimensional

Autor: Paula Fernandez Hellmund , Adriele Arnaud , Beatriz Abreu , Héctor Enrique Colmenarez

Número de Páginas: 253

Com o golpe parlamentar no Paraguai (2012) e a consequente assunção de governos neoliberais em termos econômicos e conservadores em termos políticos e sociais, como os governos de Mauricio Macri na Argentina (2015-2019) e Michel Temer (2016-2018) no Brasil, passaram a predominar novas tendências no processo de integração regional do MERCOSUL. Essas características foram ampliadas com a posse presidencial de Mario Abdo Benítez (2018-2023) no Paraguai, Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) no Brasil e Luis Lacalle Pou (2020-atual) no Uruguai. Isso levou a uma virada neoliberal no MERCOSUL e a um retorno às diretrizes do regionalismo aberto. Este livro apresenta, desde uma perspectiva interdisciplinar e multidimensional, as relações econômicas, políticas, socioculturais e territoriais dentro do MERCOSUL nos últimos anos e as incidências que o contexto internacional e as relações com outras nações e blocos tiveram no caso MERCOSUL. Especificamente, os conteúdos desta obra se concentram em quatro áreas de trabalho: economia, questão agrária, educação e relações internacionais, que são o núcleo duro do projeto de pesquisa que reúne pesquisadores e pesquisadoras dos...

Avancesy Resultados de la Investigacion Del Trigo en El Paraguay

Número de Páginas: 128

The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America

Autor: Daniel M. Brinks , Steven Levitsky , María Victoria Murillo

Número de Páginas: 359

Rather than an unintended by-product of poor state capacity, weak political and legal institutions are often weak by design.

Manual for the Integration of Population Variables Into Development Plans in African Countries at the Macro-level and in the Agricultural Sector

Número de Páginas: 104

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