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CONTENIDO: La etapa fundacional (1956 - 1965) - El crecimiento condicionado (1965 - 1985) - Nuevos impulsos (1985 - 2006).
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of saline and alkaline soils in Latin America, known for having one of the most extensive surface of salt-affected soils in the world. It is organized along two main axes: soils and vegetation. The book discusses the occurrence of such soils in the region, focusing mainly in management strategies for their sustainable use, and it presents accounts of natural vegetation and crops in the various environments of the region. Social impacts of such conditions and ongoing projects to overcome them are considered. Likewise, the book highlights physiological mechanisms that are responsible for the negative effects these soils exert on crops and forest resources and determine vegetation distribution in them. Plant breeding challenges and new perspectives for such environments are discussed. Technologies such as irrigation and drainage are included. The readership includes soil and plant scientists, as well as policy makers.
This book presents revealing reflections on historical, socio-political, and legal aspects, as well as their contexts, in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Further, it includes theoretical and empirical analyses that identify the connections between religion and politics that characterize Latin American countries in general. The individual chapters are based on a dialogue between regional and international approaches, renewing them and taking them to their limits by incorporating the Latin American experience. The book reflects the current intensification of research on religion in Latin America, the resulting reassessment of previous approaches, and the strengthening of empirical studies. It provides vital insight into the ways in which politics regulates the religious sphere, as well as how religion modulates and intervenes in politics in Latin America. In doing so it builds a bridge between the findings of researchers in the region on the one hand and the English-speaking academic public on the other, contributing to a dialogue that enriches comparative perspectives.
El 31 de Agosto de 1941, Luis Roberto Altamira publicaba en el diario La Nación un trabajo de investigación sobre el «oratorio» del Obispo Mercadillo, con el título: La Casa del Obispo Mercadillo; allí presentaba algunas evidencias documentales sobre el supuesto oratorio que en realidad no fue ni oratorio, ni capilla del Manuel de Mercadillo, ni la de un cementerio o la entrada de catacumbas, ni la morada del prelado, aunque en ese lugar hubo con anterioridad una casa (casona – patio) que fue reformada y embellecida, en la cual fallece el obispo. Sin embargo sí llegará a ser alojamiento para los alumnos del Convictorio - Colegio Real Mon[t]serrat y Seminario de Santo Tomás de Aqui...
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This book seeks to explore the theoretical and architectural connections between memory, values, cultural identity, and adaptive reuse in Latin America. It does so by critically analyzing ideas and works within the context from where they emerge. With rich and layered historic centers, a wealth of colonial and 19th-century buildings, and the heritage from the modern era, Latin America offers a unique architectural patrimony and its contribution and impact on contemporary culture and architecture still require critical study and discussion. The chapters of this timely book consider the conflicted relationship between colonialism, native cultures, and immigration. It also explores the connecti...