Crisis y desarrollo: presente y futuro de América Latina y el Caribe. Vol 2: Desencadenamiento de la crisis y la reacción de la política económica: resultados y alternativas = Crisis and development: the present situation and future prospects of Latin America and the Caribbean. Vol. 2: Onset of the crisis and the economic policy response: effects and options

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Síntesis de la Tercera Reunión de Funcionarios Responsables del Comercio Exterior de América Latina

Sintetiza lo esencial de los debates de la Reunion en los temas referidos a la insersion de America Latina en la economia mundial, las negociaciones economicas internacionales, la integracion y la cooperacion regionales.

The igapó of the Negro River in central Amazonia: Linking late-successional inundation forest with fluvial geomorphology

Despite important progress on Amazonian floodplain research, the flooded forest of the Negro River igapó has been little investigated. In particular, no study has previously focused the linkage between fluvial geomorphology and the floristic variation across the course of the river. In this paper we describe and interpret relations between igapó forest, fluvial geomorphology and the spatial evolution of the igapó forest through the Holocene. Therefore, we investigate the effect of geomorphological units of the floodplain and channel patterns on tree diversity, composition and structural parameters of the late-successional igapó forest. Our results show that sites sharing almost identical flooding regime, exhibit variable tree assemblages, species richness and structural parameters such as basal area, tree density and tree heights, indicating a trend in which the geomorphologic styles seem to partially control the organization of igapó's tree communities. This can be also explained by the high variability of well-developed geomorphologic units in short distances and concentrated in small areas. In this dynamic the inputs from the species pool of tributary rivers play a crucial role, but also the depositional and erosional processes associated with the evolution of the floodplain during the Holocene may control floristic and structural components of the igapó forests. These results suggest that a comprehensive approach integrating floristic and geomorphologic methods is needed to understand the distribution of the complex vegetation patterns in complex floodplains such as the igapó of the Negro River. This combination of approaches may introduce a better comprehension of the temporal and spatial evolutionary analysis and a logic rationale to understand the vegetation distribution and variability in function of major landforms, soil distributions and hydrology. Thus, by integrating the past into macroecological analyses will sharpen our understanding of the underlying forces for contemporary floristic patterns along the inundation forests of the Negro River. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

Effects of cold fronts on MODIS-derived sensible and latent heat fluxes in Itumbiara reservoir (Central Brazil)

In this work we investigate the cold front passage effects on sensible and latent heat flux in a tropical hydroelectric reservoir. The study area, Itumbiara reservoir (Goiás State/Brazil) at the beginning of the austral winter, is characterized by the presence of a weak thermal stratification and the passage of several cold fronts from higher latitudes of South America. Sensible and latent heat fluxes were estimated considering the atmospheric boundary layer stability. In situ and MODIS water surface temperature data were used to adjust the coefficients for momentum and heat exchanges between water and atmosphere and spatialize the sensible and latent heat fluxes. The results showed that during a cold front event the sensible heat flux can be up to five times greater than the flux observed before. The latent heat flux tends to decrease during the cold front but increase again after the passage. The highest values of heat loss were observed at littoral zone and some Reservoir's embayment. The heat loss intensification can be separated in two moments: first, during the cold front passage, when the wind speed increases and the air temperature decreases; second, after the cold front passage, with air humidity decreasing. This can be considered a key process to understanding the heat loss in the Itumbiara reservoir. © 2013 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

El significado para América Latina del estandar de las Naciones Unidas sobre el intercambio electrónico de datos para administración, comercio y transporte (UN

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La industria del aluminio de América Latina y el Caribe: opciones tecnológicas y oportunidades para el crecimiento = The aluminium industry of Latin America and the Caribbean: technological options and opportunities for growth

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Notas sobre modelización macroeconómica: funciones de comercio exterior

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El regionalismo abierto: América Latina y el Caribe en la economía internacional = Open regionalism: Latin America and the Caribbean in the global economy

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Informe del II Taller de Gerentes de Organismos de Cuenca en América Latina y el Caribe = Report on the Second Workshop for Managers of River Basin Authorities in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Economic indicators of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2003

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Ageing, solidarity and social protection: time for progress towards equality. Third Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean, San José, 8-11 May 2012

This publication summarizes the "Report on application of the Brasilia Declaration and the Regional Strategy for the Implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing", which will be presented at the Third Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held in San José from 8 to 11 May 2012.

Promoción de la cooperación económica y técnica entre Africa y América Latina = Promotion of economic and technical co-operation between Africa and Latin America

Ofrece una síntesis de propuestas y recomendaciones concretas sobre maneras de establecer cooperación técnica y económica entre Africa y América Latina o de fortalecer la existente en los campos del desarrollo de los recursos humanos, del comercio interregional y de la ciencia y la tecnología. Incluye sugerencias para posibles acciones complementarias en el futuro.

Co-operation between Latin America and Africa in the field of external trade

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Estudio sobre cooperación técnica y económica entre Africa y América Latina en la esfera del comercio interregional

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