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The largest rain forest in the world stretches over 6 million square kilometers of lush vegetation on the Amazon river basin of South America. Here, an average 80" of rain falls…

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Nigel Smith
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El documento recoge la ponencia "Hacia una relectura de Agustín Cueva" realizada en el Seminario Agustín Cueva Dávila. Una posibilidad de lectura de Agustín Cueva son las mismas…

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Luis Verdesoto Custode
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Guaraná is a rainforest vine that was domesticated in the Amazon for its caffeine-rich fruits. Guaraná has long been used as a tonic and to treat various disorders in Brazil and…

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Nigel Smith and André Luiz Atroch
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Este artículo es una reflexión conceptual acerca de la democracia y la sociedad civil en la Región Andina, derivada de los aportes producidos en el tema y análisis de referencias…

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Luis Verdesoto y Gloria Ardaya
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La descentralización y la participación ciudadana en la región son procesos sociales y políticos, que se desenvuelven en el contexto complejo de la reforma del Estado, la…

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Luis Verdesoto Custode
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The House Sparrow is advancing northward in South America in a pincer-like movement, mainly along the Pacific and Atlantic coast. This paper reviews the advances of House Sparrows…

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Nigel J. H. Smith
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Development pressures are triggering rapid ecological, cultural, and economic changes in Amazonia, one of the world´s largest remaining forest frontiers. Some of the environmental…

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Nigel J. H. Smith, Paulo Alvim, A. Homma, I. Falesi and A. Serrao
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Este artículo presenta cinco ideas centrales. La primera, a manera de introducción, donde se desarrollan algunas cuestiones de orden conceptual. Una segunda habla de la necesidad…

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Fernando Carrión Mena
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Most Amazonian tribes have become extinct, but aboriginal ideas about the spiritual dimension of nature have trickled into the cultural reservoir of rural folk where they continue…

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Nigel Smith
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The world´s largest freshwater turtle, Podocnemis expansa, has long served as an important food resource for Indians and Mestizos of the Amazon and Orinoco basins. Although widely…

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Nigel J. H. Smith
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Breve análisis de las escuelas de la economía política del desarrollo que podrían brindar aportes a la construccion del plan de desarrollo ecuatoriano.

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Francisco Yépez Cadena
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En este inicio de siglo el fútbol ecuatoriano ha logrado éxitos deportivos internacionales nunca antes vistos, tanto con sus selecciones como con sus clubes. Correlativamente…

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Fernando Carrión Mena
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