Browsing Capítulos de Libros by Title

    • Challenges and strategies to face agrometeorological risks and uncertainties – Regional Perspective in South America 

      Alarcón Velazco, Constantino Eusebio

      (Springer - Verlag, 2007)
      Acceso cerrado
      South America is one of the regions in the world, most exposed to a wide range of hydro-meteorological hazards, according to the EM-DAT, an international database on disasters, that the Office of US Foreign Disaster ...

    • Contaminación del Aire 

      Rojas Quincho, Jhojan Pool

      (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia – UPCH, 2020-07)
      Acceso cerrado
      Los problemas más graves de contaminación del aire empezaron a ocurrir asociada a la “revolución industrial” iniciada en el siglo XVIII en Inglaterra. Los eventos de contaminación del aire están condicionados por el ...

    • Extreme El Niño Events 

      Dewitte, Boris; Takahashi, Ken

      (Elsevier, 2019)
      Acceso cerrado
      Every few years the tropical Pacific warms abnormally in association with a relaxation of the trade winds, a phenomenon known as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that represents the strongest fluctuation of the ...

    • International perspective on the basin-scale water-energy nexus 

      Metzger Terrazas, Luis; Lane, Belize; Gebriye Setegn, Shimelis; Kromann, Jenna; Kilanski, Mathew; MacPhee, David

      (Springer Nature, 2016)
      Acceso cerrado
      This chapter addresses the current state of water and energy resources management in different regions of the world using basin-scale case studies from North America, Latin America, and Africa. It focuses on the characterization ...

    • Introduction to hydrology 

      Salas, J.D.; Govindaraju, R.S.; Anderson, M.; Arabi, M.; Francés, F.; Suarez, Wilson; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Green, T.R.

      (Humana Press Inc., 2014-01)
      Acceso cerrado
      Hydrology deals with the occurrence, movement, and storage of water in the earth system. Hydrologic science comprises understanding the underlying physical and stochastic processes involved and estimating the quantity and ...

    • Towards more resilient food systems for smallholder farmers in the peruvian altiplano: the potential of community-based climate services 

      Rossa, Andrea; Flubacher, Moritz; Cristobal, Lizet; Ramos, Hugo; Lechthaler, Filippo

      (Springer Nature, 2020-01-18)
      “Experiences from the disastrous 2016 El Niño revealed that its forecast, although available, was not known, accessed or understood by a large part of agricultural communities living in remote rural areas. This is all the ...

    • Variaciones glaciares y disponibilidad de agua en la cordillera Blanca del Perú desde hace 40 año 

      Condom, Thomas; Suarez, Wilson; Cochachin Rapre, Alejo; Gómez, Jesús

      (Instituto Colombiano de Geología y Minería - INGEOMINAS, 2010)
      Acceso abierto
      En el Perú, se observa un proceso de retroceso glaciar desde hace más de 30 años. El área de estudio de este artículo es la cordillera Blanca, la formación glaciar más importante del país, ubicada en el ramal occidental ...