Geography of Latin America

Geography and Socioeconomic Development in Latin America and Caribbean

Introduction Geography has strong and pervasive effects on economic and social development. On a worldwide scale, geographical patterns are especially dramatic (Figure 1). The tropics are almost uniformly poor, and few of the nontropical countries are among the poorest. If geography were unimportant, one would expect to see similar economic conditions throughout the world, subject to some rando...

[Geography and health: themes and perspectives in Latin America].

Relations between geography and health have been recognized since ancient times. Investigation of such relations has been characterized by isolated and scant efforts. This article aims to explore potential links between geography's theoretical and methodological frame of reference and knowledge and interpretation of the population's health. It approaches the antecedents of medical or health-rel...

Race in Latin America

category to understand human biological diversity. Humans vary to some extent in their DNA and their outward physical appearance or phenotype, but this diversity cannot be organized into “racial groups” or “races,” even if some genetic and phenotypical variation seems to correlate very broadly with continental geography. Humans are too similar genetically and intracontinental genetic variation ...

News from Latin America

The first international conference on cryptology and Information security, LatinCrypt 2010, will be held at the Baroque Hall located inside the Carolino Building in Puebla, Mexico from August 8 to August 11, 2010. The Program Committee co-chairs are Michel Abdalla (France) and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto (Brazil) while the General chair is Francisco RodrÃŋguez-Henríquez (Mexico). There have been 19 ...

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