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The world is witnessing a period in its history when the increasing socio-political upheavals are taking the lives of thousands, and destroying the natural wealth of our planet. Poverty and food insecurity are two key forces driving this destruction.
Este trabajo busca dar cuenta de las complejidades existentes en la articulación de los diferentes aspectos del ambiente urbano, brindar algunos elementos explicativos sobre las criticas condiciones ambientales urbanas, en especial de los sectores pobres, y por ultimo realizar algunas reflexiones
El propósito de este artículo es mostrar y examinar algunos
aspectos básicos de la situación que viven los pueblos indígenas
y afrodescendientes en América Latina y el Caribe. A través
del análisis de factores como el racismo y la discriminación,
This report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.
This paper aims to learn from the household survival strategies in Ethiopia that have evolved to manage diverse disaster hazards with a view that such strategies can inform more effective disaster preparedness, relief, recovery and prevention, policies and interventions.This report describes the
This paper seeks to analyse some of the problems of degradation persisting in the dryland regions with particular reference to Sub-Saharan Africa, and describe the processes that aim to tackle them.It identifies the threat to dryland regions as a complex mixture of degrading soils, continuous exp
This report argues that for many developing countries, oil reserves are more likely to prove a curse than a blessing. Poor countries dependent on oil revenues have a higher incidence of four great and interconnected ills.
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