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Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Latin American university students
Latin American Students in United States Colleges and Universities
Author: Gordon C. Ruscoe
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Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Publisher:
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Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers
Author: Mark Carey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974257X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific studies that try to estimate impacts and project future climate scenarios. This book is different, illustrating in vivid detail how people in the Andes have grappled with the effects of climate change and ensuing natural disasters for more than half a century. In Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range, global climate change has generated the world's most deadly glacial lake outburst floods and glacier avalanches, killing 25,000 people since 1941. As survivors grieved, they formed community organizations to learn about precarious glacial lakes while they sent priests to the mountains, hoping that God could calm the increasingly hostile landscape. Meanwhile, Peruvian engineers working with miniscule budgets invented innovative strategies to drain dozens of the most unstable lakes that continue forming in the twenty first century. But adaptation to global climate change was never simply about engineering the Andes to eliminate environmental hazards. Local urban and rural populations, engineers, hydroelectric developers, irrigators, mountaineers, and policymakers all perceived and responded to glacier melting differently-based on their own view of an ideal Andean world. Disaster prevention projects involved debates about economic development, state authority, race relations, class divisions, cultural values, the evolution of science and technology, and shifting views of nature. Over time, the influx of new groups to manage the Andes helped transform glaciated mountains into commodities to consume. Locals lost power in the process and today comprise just one among many stakeholders in the high Andes-and perhaps the least powerful. Climate change transformed a region, triggering catastrophes while simultaneously jumpstarting modernization processes. This book's historical perspective illuminates these trends that would be ignored in any scientific projections about future climate scenarios.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974257X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific studies that try to estimate impacts and project future climate scenarios. This book is different, illustrating in vivid detail how people in the Andes have grappled with the effects of climate change and ensuing natural disasters for more than half a century. In Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range, global climate change has generated the world's most deadly glacial lake outburst floods and glacier avalanches, killing 25,000 people since 1941. As survivors grieved, they formed community organizations to learn about precarious glacial lakes while they sent priests to the mountains, hoping that God could calm the increasingly hostile landscape. Meanwhile, Peruvian engineers working with miniscule budgets invented innovative strategies to drain dozens of the most unstable lakes that continue forming in the twenty first century. But adaptation to global climate change was never simply about engineering the Andes to eliminate environmental hazards. Local urban and rural populations, engineers, hydroelectric developers, irrigators, mountaineers, and policymakers all perceived and responded to glacier melting differently-based on their own view of an ideal Andean world. Disaster prevention projects involved debates about economic development, state authority, race relations, class divisions, cultural values, the evolution of science and technology, and shifting views of nature. Over time, the influx of new groups to manage the Andes helped transform glaciated mountains into commodities to consume. Locals lost power in the process and today comprise just one among many stakeholders in the high Andes-and perhaps the least powerful. Climate change transformed a region, triggering catastrophes while simultaneously jumpstarting modernization processes. This book's historical perspective illuminates these trends that would be ignored in any scientific projections about future climate scenarios.
Latin-American Universities and Special Schools
Author: Edgar Ewing Brandon
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The Latin American University
Author: Joseph Maier
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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A Survey of Facilities for Latin American Students in U.S. Colleges and Universities
Author: National Association for Foreign Student Affairs. Committee on Latin American Students
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Category : Latin American students
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin American students
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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University Reform in Latin America
Author: International Student Conference
Publisher:
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Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Publisher:
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Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Higher Education and the State in Latin America
Author: Daniel C. Levy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226476087
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Latin America higher education has undergone an astonishing transformation in recent years, highlighted by the private sector's growth from 3 to 34 percent of the region's total enrollment. In this provocative work Daniel Levy examines the sources, characteristics, and consequences of the development and considers the privatization of higher education within the broader context of state-society relationships. Levy shows how specific national circumstances cause variations and identifies three basic private-public patterns: one in which the private and public sectors are relatively similar and those in which one sector or the other is dominant. These patterns are analyzed in depth in case studies of Chile, Mexico, and Brazil. For each sector, Levy investigates origins and growth, and then who pays, who rules, and whose interests are served. In addition to providing a wealth of information, Levy offers incisive analyses of the nature of public and private institutions. Finally, he explores the implications of his findings for concepts such as autonomy, corporatism, and privatization. His multifaceted study is a major contribution to the literature on Latin American studies, comparative politics, and higher education.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226476087
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Latin America higher education has undergone an astonishing transformation in recent years, highlighted by the private sector's growth from 3 to 34 percent of the region's total enrollment. In this provocative work Daniel Levy examines the sources, characteristics, and consequences of the development and considers the privatization of higher education within the broader context of state-society relationships. Levy shows how specific national circumstances cause variations and identifies three basic private-public patterns: one in which the private and public sectors are relatively similar and those in which one sector or the other is dominant. These patterns are analyzed in depth in case studies of Chile, Mexico, and Brazil. For each sector, Levy investigates origins and growth, and then who pays, who rules, and whose interests are served. In addition to providing a wealth of information, Levy offers incisive analyses of the nature of public and private institutions. Finally, he explores the implications of his findings for concepts such as autonomy, corporatism, and privatization. His multifaceted study is a major contribution to the literature on Latin American studies, comparative politics, and higher education.
Latin American Students in United States Universities
Author: Eva van Ditmar
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Category : Latin American students
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Publisher:
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Category : Latin American students
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Higher Education in the United States and Latin America
Author: Joseph P. Cangemi
Publisher: New York : Philosophical Library
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Philosophical Library
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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