Colombia
- Capital:
Bogotá - Population:
44205293 - Size:
1138910.0 Km2
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- The BLDS print collection
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Browse all the latest print documents from the British Library of Development Studies...
- Trusting the enemy: confidence in the state among ex-combatants
- E. Nussio; B. Oppenheim / Households in Conflict Network, 2013
- War-torn societies are often racked with generalized distrust, both among citizens and between citizens and the state. Even long after conflict ends, former combatants who participated in violence and challenged the state’s mono...
- Climate resilience and disaster risk management: stories of change from CDKN
- M. Dupar / Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
- This brief presents results from projects supported by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) to assess vulnerability and mainstream climate resilience into development planning. Case studies from India, Ghana and Colomb...
- Paper discussing climate change impacts on water resources in the tropical Andes
- M. Vuille / Sustainable Development Department, Inter-American Development Bank, 2013
- Produced by the Inter-American Development Bank, this paper focuses on the effects of climate change on water resources in the tropical Andes. It begins by looking at recent trends in temperature and precipitation and the various atte...
- Managing conflict through translation: Latin America's experience
- G. Damonte / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
- Experience from Latin America shows how community consultation can be an important strategy used to manage conflict in Extractive Industries activities. This Brief characterises and analyses the different types of local consultation s...
- Embedding climate change resilience in coastal city planning: early lessons from Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
- P. Adams / Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
- This ‘Inside story on climate compatible development’ by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network summarises guidelines for climate change adaption in the coastal city of Cartagena de Indias in Colombia. It outlines the...
- Private investment in wind power in Colombia
- D. Robinson / Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2012
- This report examines the feasibility of private investment in wind power in Colombia within the current regulatory framework. It focuses especially on the regulatory methodology for estimating the ‘firm energy’ that wind pow...
- Addressing the urban environmental challenge in integral and inclusive ways
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Integrated urban environmental plans developed in different Latin American countries show how to reduce systemic challenges in urban areas. Overcoming multi-dimensional urban issues requires a holistic view that includes channels for ...
- Inclusive Protected Area Management in the Amazon: The Importance of Social Networks over Ecological Knowledge
- p. Ungar / SustainAbility, 2012
- In the Amacayacu National Park in Colombia, which partially overlaps with Indigenous territories, several elements of an inclusive protected area management model have been implemented since the 1990s. In particular, a dialogue betwee...
- The state of environmental migration 2011
- F. Gemenne / International Organization for Migration, 2012
- This report is the second volume in an annual series, which aims to provide regular assessments on the changing nature and dynamics of environmental migration. This volume focuses on cross-border displacement and the securitisation of...
- Enhancing South-South and triangular cooperation: study of the current situation and existing good practices in policy, institutions, and operation of South-South and triangular cooperation
- United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- South-South and triangular cooperation has become a major subject of international development discussions. One of the key issues identified in such discussions is the lack of information on South-South and triangular cooperation impl...
- International Society for Violence and Injury Prevention (ISVIP)
- The International Society for Violence and Injuries Prevention (ISVIP) champions global action for the promotion of injury prevention and safety promotion. It is involved in developing policies and providing assistance for implementation of strategies for violence/injury prevention and safety promotion. The goals of ISVIP are to: facilitate information exchan...
- Instituto Javeriano de Vivienda y Urbanismo (The Institute for Housing and Urbanism), Colombia (INVAJIU)
- Colombian research institute working on problems of housing and urban poverty
- Fundación Ideas para la Paz
- Fundación Ideas para la Paz
- Universidad Antonio Nariño, Colombia
- Teaching and research university
- Grupo de Investigaciones, Facultad de Economia, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
- Economics research group
- Centro de Proyectos para el Desarrollo, Universidad Javeriana (Cendex)
- Colombian academic centre for the practical application of development research
- La Red Ecorregional para América Latina (REDECO)
- La Red Ecorregional es un grupo de personas pertenecientes a organizaciones de todo tipo del Trópico Americano (Gubernamentales, no- Gubernamentales, de base, educativas, de investigación, etc.) que ejecutan proyectos y actividades de desarrollo rural sostenible y/o que están interesadas en estos temas. En la actualidad la Red cuenta con alrededor de 2500 personas que están interconectadas, que re...
- Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria [ES] (CORPOICA)
- CORPOICA es una Corporación mixta, de derecho privado sin ánimo de lucro. Creada por iniciativa del Gobierno Colombiano, con base en la Ley de Ciencia y Tecnología, para fortalecer y reorientar la investigación y la transferencia de tecnología en el sector agropecuario, con la participación de sector privado. WWW servicios: boletín regional; directorio electrónico de Corpoica; bases de datos bib...
- Participatory Research with Farmers, International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (IPRA)
- Participatory approaches to farming
- Fundacion Social, Colombia
- Non-for-profit organization, created in 1911, dedicated to promote possitive transformations on the structures that produce poverty in Colombia. Main active research fields are: Local and regional integral development and human rights.The Fundacion has also accumulated a significant knowledge in the fields of microenterprises, education, recycling, social communication and community development....
