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This book invites us to reflect on the restoration of terrestrial ecosystems in the context of a region whose identity is still under construction, Latin America and the Caribbean, immersed in a social, economic, ecological and political crisis, whose roots originate historically and politically in colonialism and in the prevailing model of capital accumulation. For the first time, insights and practical experiences on restoration are gathered from most Latin-American and Caribbean countries. Furthermore, this book offers a social approach to restoration, which will likely become preponderant in this field and in this region. The authors claim that a Latin-American knowledge of restoration i...
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Este libro propone una reflexión sobre la restauración de ecosistemas terrestres en el contexto de un territorio con identidad en construcción activa –Latinoamérica y Caribe– enmarcado en una crisis social, económica, ecológica y política que se funda histórica y políticamente en el colonialismo y el modelo imperante de acumulación de capital. Por primera vez se reúnen reflexiones y experiencias prácticas de buena parte de los países de Latinoamérica y el Caribe en términos de restauración, y se consolida un enfoque social que posiblemente en el futuro adquiera un espacio preponderante en este campo en la región. Los autores afirman que hay un saber latinoamericano sobre...
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004352735).
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th Iberoamerican Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI-Collab 2018, held in Popayán, Colombia, in April 2018. The 18 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers are dealing with topics such as emotional interfaces, HCI and videogames, computational thinking, collaborative systems, software engineering and ICT in education.
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Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.