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Violencia y derechos de propiedad : el caso de la violencia en Colombia

Journal Articles & Books
December 2012
Colombia
Central America
Caribbean
South America
Latin America and the Caribbean
property rights

La literatura económica que estudia la violencia ha analizado la forma en que un menor desarrollo de los derechos de propiedad puede generar las condiciones para que surjan procesos violentos. Sin embargo, son escasos los estudios que analizan la manera como la violencia, en el largo plazo, puede afectar las estructuras de propiedad en las zonas que han sido afectadas.

Mapping land-use and land-cover change along Bolivia's Corredor Bioceánico with CBERS and the Landsat series: 1975–2008

Journal Articles & Books
December 2012
Bolivia
Central America
South America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
land cover
deforestation
land use

This study uses a combination of Landsat series data (Multispectral Scanner or MSS, Thematic Mapper or TM and Enhanced Thematic Mapper or ETM+) to map land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) from 1975 to 2001. It extends the land change record to 2008 using Chinese–Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS)-2 and CBERS-2B data on a multi-scene level.

Green multiculturalism: articulations of ethnic and environmental politics in a Colombian ‘black community’

Journal Articles & Books
December 2012
Colombia
Central America
South America
land reform

This paper analyzes the intersection of two parallel developments that have had a curious impact on agrarian politics in Colombia: on the one hand, attempts to appropriate land for ‘green’ ends such as biofuel production, which have become ubiquitous all across Latin America, and on the other, the implementation of multicultural reforms, which in Colombia resulted in the collective titling of m