Essays about: "Cajamarca"

Found 4 essays containing the word Cajamarca.

  1. 1. Bracing for the inevitable: An exploratory multi-case study of local climate change adaptation plans

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Mariana De La Luz Sanchez Vargas; [2020]
    Keywords : Climate change adaptation; adaptive planning; resilience; local government; intersectionality; equity; justice; fairness; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Vulnerability to climate change and the capacity to adapt to it are the result of intersecting power structures, system dynamics, and social identity markers otherwise known as intersectionality; and thus, differ greatly between contexts. However, despite the stark contextual differences between small and metropolitan cities, and lower and higher income countries, the policy and study of climate change adaptive planning has often focused on capital cities and technocratic solutions as a default blueprint for adaptation processes. READ MORE

  2. 2. Undermining environmental justice? : community-company conflicts with La Colosa gold mine in Cajamarca, Colombia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Diana Noreña Ramirez; [2015]
    Keywords : La Colosa; Cajamarca; Colombia; gold mining; environmental justice; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Colombian government pursues an extractive-led development trajectory in which mining is considered as a key factor for reviving the economy. However, while mining has been important in the economic development of some countries, it has also been associated to conflicts, product of its high environmental impact and, in many cases, unequal distribution of benefits. READ MORE

  3. 3. "Water yes, gold no!" - The Effects of a Neo-liberal Development Strategy in Cajamarca, Peru

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Natalie Donback; [2013]
    Keywords : neo-liberalism; development; mining; rural livelihoods; Peru; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Neo-liberal development strategies have for long been considered the way to achieve development and the Washington Consensus has gained influence in most countries in the world. Peru is one of its faithful followers that despite a left-wing turn on the Latin American continent has not followed suit and continues to embrace neo-liberal policies. READ MORE

  4. 4. "We shall copy, copy and write" - conceptions of the mother tongue subject in the early years of primary school in a Peruvian public school

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Lärarutbildningen (LUT)

    Author : Charlotte Malmgren; [2009]
    Keywords : ämneskonception; modersmålsundervisning; formalisering; funktionalisering; spanska; Peru;

    Abstract : Syftet med studien är att undersöka vilka ämneskonceptioner som dominerar modersmålsundervisningen i grundskolans tidigare år i Peru, samt jämföra dessa med svenska förhållanden och forskning. Vidare syftar studien till att analysera varför dessa ämneskonceptioner dominerar, samt vilka slutsatser som kan dras med hänsyn till dessa ämneskonceptioners resultat. READ MORE