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Peer-reviewed publication
April 2020
Africa
South America
Central America
Asia

Landscape governance refers to the combination of rules and decision-making processes of civic, private, and public actors with stakes in the landscape, that together shape the future of that landscape.

Journal Articles & Books
December 2019
Caribbean
Dominican Republic
Central America
Guatemala
Mexico
South America
Argentina
Brazil
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru

The extensive arable land and great biodiversity present in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have the potential to ensure sustenance and a good quality of life for its more than 600 million inhabitants. LAC has experienced important changes in land use. When the Europeans arrived in the 15th century, the forest cover of LAC accounted for approximately 75 per cent of the territory.

CALPI
Manuals & Guidelines
November 2019
Latin America and the Caribbean
Central America
Nicaragua

Los aspesctos técnicos mencionados en este documento tienen como objetivo socializar una seria de normativas y procedimientos que tendrian que ser establecidos en territorios de poblaciones indígenas y de afrodescendientes, para discutir sobre la realización de proyectos urbanos en estas áreas de Nicaragua. El documento esta dividido en dos partes importantes:

CALPI
Manuals & Guidelines
November 2019
Latin America and the Caribbean
Central America
Nicaragua
The technical aspects mentioned in this document are intended to socialize a series of regulations and procedures that would have to be established in territories of indigenous and Afro-descendant populations, to discuss the implementation of urban projects in these areas of Nicaragua. The document is divided into two important parts:
 
Institutional & promotional materials
September 2019
South America
Central America

Recientemente se ha constituido una agenda urbana de desarrollo sostenible que tiene como fundamentos los diagnósticos y compromisos asumidos en diversos acuerdos internacionales que han tenido lugar en los últimos años. Entre estos resaltan la Agenda 2030, la Nueva Agenda Urbana Mundial y el Acuerdo de París.

Peer-reviewed publication
June 2019
Africa
Central America
Asia
South America

Land plays an important role in the economies of developing countries, and many theories connecting land inequality with different dimensions of economic development already exist.

Journal Articles & Books
December 2018
Peru
Central America
South America

Introduction The Cañete River watershed located in the central Peruvian Andes, is undergoing hydrological changes due to global rising temperatures, landuse changes and increased water supply demand. At the river’s source in the ice-covered mountains at 5,800 m.a.s.l., changes in the landscape are evident given the ever receding snow covered ground.

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