It seems reasonable to claim that inequalities can be deserved or undeserved only if the principle of equality of opportunity has been be previously satisfied. The main purpose of this article is to argue against desert ...

Rawl's thesis is that under democratic equality it is reasonable to consider individuals responsible for their life plans. This essay discusses that thesis by arguing that Rawls's arguments against desert as a distributive ...

The Atacama Desert, located in northern Chile, is one of the driest deserts on the Earth. However, in some years, short and sporadic rainfall in the southern end of this desert has increased the soil moisture that produces ...

Interests in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile until very recently were founded on its mineral resources, notably nitrate, copper, lithium and boron. Now this vast desert, the oldest and most arid on Earth, is ...

© 2017, Universidad de Tarapaca. All rights reserved. The Variable Hawk (Geranoaetus polyosoma) is a raptor species distributed throughout Chile. In Atacama Desert it feeds particularly lizards and on a littleproportion ...

We studied the energetics of two herbivorous desert rodents from South America. The two species had slightly lower basal metabolic rates, lower thermal conductances, and higher temperature differentials than those expected ...

Understanding microbial adaptation to environmental stressors is crucial for interpreting broader ecological patterns. In the most extreme hot and cold deserts, cryptic niche communities are thought to play key roles in ...

Arising out of a session held at the Fourth Southern Deserts Conference in Mendoza, Argentina, in November 2014, this special issue of the Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology explores how people have dealt with these ...

Precipitation in northern Chile is controlled by two great wind belts - the southern westerlies over the southern Atacama and points south (> 24° S) and the tropical easterlies over the northern and central Atacama ...