Innovative urban environmental management in Ilo, Peru

Syndromic Management and STI Control in Urban Peru

BACKGROUND Syndromic management is an inexpensive and effective method for the treatment of symptomatic sexually transmitted infections (STIs), but its effectiveness as a method of STI control in at-risk populations is questionable. We sought to determine the potential utility of syndromic management as a public health strategy to control STI transmission in high-risk populations in urban Peru....

[Environmental health in Peru].

Sr. Editor. Del 28 al 30 de abril de 2014 se llevó a cabo en Lima una reunión de expertos para presentar las investigaciones que se desarrollan en Perú sobre contaminación del aire, contaminación del agua y el impacto del cambio climático/variabilidad climática y su impacto en salud y las prioridades de investigación que se pueden establecer en la actualidad. En este taller participaron investi...

Environmental planning and management of urban natural landscapes

Advantages of urbanization such as access to clean water, health, and overall easier life in cities, as well as the disadvantages or its negative effects on environment cannot be ignored. Today, there are numerous environmental problems due to the reduction in ecologically valuable places within urban areas. Bringing nature to the cities appears to be essential to enhance urban environment and ...

Social Experiments in Innovative Environmental Management: The emergence of ecotechnology

Urban environmental management: monitoring, GIS, and modeling

Urban environmental management must integrate the spatial, structural features of a city, typically captured in GIS, and the dynamics of environmental quality indicators that can be obtained by monitoring. To provide decision relevant information supporting planning and management, these components are integrated in models for scenario analysis and optimisation tasks. The paper describes some r...