Opportunities for trade and investment between Latin America and Asia-Pacific: the link with APEC

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Millennium development goals: advances in environmentally sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Trade in services in Latin America and the Caribbean: an analysis of recent trends

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Trade and investment promotion between Asia-Pacific and Latin America: present position and future prospects

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Quality of Latin American and Caribbean industrialization and integration into the global economy

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The transformation of the North American apparel industry: is NAFTA a curse or a blessing?

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Restructuring in manufacturing: case studies in Chile, Mexico and Venezuela

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Instituciones de apoyo a la tecnología y estrategias regionales basadas en la innovación

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¿Existe un modelo de microfinanzas en América Latina?

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Classificação de áreas de favelas a partir de imagens IKONOS: Viabilidade de uso de uma abordagem orientada a objeto

The growth of large cities is usually accelerated and disorganized, which causes social, economical and infrastructural conflicts and frequently, occupation in illegal areas. For a better administration of these areas, the public manager needs information about their location. This information can be obtained through land utilization and land cover maps, where orbital images of remote sensing are used as one of the most traditional sources of data. In this context, the present work tested the applicability of the object-based classification to categorize two slum areas, taking into account the structure of the streets, size of the huts, distance between the houses, among other parameters. These area combinations of physical aspects were analyzed using the image IKONOS II and the software eCognition. Slum areas tend to be, to the contrary of the planned areas, disarranged, with narrow streets, small houses built with a variety of materials and without definition of blocks. The results of land cover classification for slum areas are encouraging because they are accurate and little ambiguous in the classification process. Thus, it would allow its utilization by urban managers.

Urban poverty and habitat precariousness in the Caribbean

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Environmental value, valuation methods, and natural disaster damage assessment

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Impactos sociais da mineração do folhelho pirobetuminoso sobre a comunidade rural Dois Irmãos, desapropriada para fins de utilidade pública

The aim of this paper is to present the effects of social impacts of Petrobras/Six mining of oil shales over the rural community Dois Irmãos, located at Sao Mateus do Sul city, Paraná state. For making mining areas, PETROBRAS/SIX needs to expropriate areas of its interest. In 2010, for the implementation of the mine Dois Irmão, the last one, 90 families were evicted and they directly suffered the impacts of mining. Of these, 62 families were interviewed in order to investigate the main effects suffered with the expropriation. These results showed that the community had difficulties in upgrading its way of life in new places, experiencing how different types of problems were triggered from the loss of the lands.

Flying geese or sitting ducks? Transnationals and industry in developing countries

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Education in basic skills and training for productive work

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