: Environment, Society, and Rural Change in Latin America . David A. Preston.

Rural Poverty in Latin America

Latin America in a Changing Global Environment

[Climate change, rainfall, society and disasters in Latin America: relations and needs].

Sr. Editor. El comienzo del año 2010 estuvo marcado en muchos países de América Latina por el impacto de una fuerte anomalía climática, cuantificada por la National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) de EUA, como un fuerte El Niño (Strong El Niño), con valores del ONI (Oceanic Niño Index) (promedio de la anomalía de la temperatura de la superficie del mar en la región 3,4 del N...

Wireless Networks and Rural Development: Opportunities for Latin America

Recent developments in wireless local area network (WLAN) technologies are raising new hopes for sustainable Internet diffusion in the rural areas of the developing world. These technologies allow drastic reductions in network deployment costs, particularly for last-mile connectivity in low-density areas. More important, the technologies make possible an infrastructure development model based o...

Latin America Salutes the Society for Pediatric Pathology.

The Latin American pediatric pathologists represented by the Sociedad Latinoamericana de Patologı́a Pediátrica (SLAPPE) congratulate a medical society born in the north but whose influence has extended to the southernmost point of our America. The Society for Pediatric Pathology (SPP) was born 50 years ago as a friendly club. The Pediatric Pathology Club was its name, and George Fetterman was it...