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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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)
    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 ...