Essays about: "Barranco"

Found 3 essays containing the word Barranco.

1. 1. Situating adscriptions of value on Nature's Contributions to People : The case of traditional farmers in San Pedro, Paraguay.

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Martín Barranco Blasco; [2018]
   Keywords : Paraguay; farmers; ecosystem services; nature s contributions to people; traditional knowledge; soybeans; deforestation; biodiversity loss; community-based conservation;

   Abstract : This thesis focus on the unidimensional adscriptions of value behind industrial soybeans production in Paraguay. The thesis aims to present non-economic Nature’s Contributions to traditional farmers’ quality of life, the role of farmers’ traditional knowledge to display these contributions and the efficiency of such knowledge regarding high productive demands. READ MORE

3. 2. Looking across the street : Understanding segregation and marginalization in a district of Lima through the use and treatment of public space

   University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

   Author : David Ricardo de la Cruz Vega; [2018]
   Keywords : public space; segregation; marginalization; Barranco; gentrification; spatial justice; inequality;

   Abstract : The district of Barranco is the smallest in the city of Lima, Peru, and is marked by the inequality in the socio-economic level of its inhabitants and a differentiated capacity in their access to public spaces. The present study seeks to explore, through an analysis of the public space and its characteristics, the causes, conditions and structural dynamics of inequality that produce and reproduce segregation and marginalization in the district of Barranco. READ MORE

4. 3. A geochemical characterization of the lower part of the Miocene shield-building lavas on Gran Canaria

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

   Author : Romina Peetz; [2009]
   Keywords : Gran Canaria; shield-building lavas; Güigüi Formation; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Ocean islands offer a great potential to provide information about mantle processes and the composition of the mantle. Gran Canaria is located in the centre of the Canary Island Archipelago and is well suited for such studies. A comprehensive study of the lower Miocene shield-building lavas is performed for this thesis. READ MORE