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Inland navigation and a more sustainable use of natural resources: networks, challenges and opportunities for South America
(ECLAC, 2016-07)
This issue of the FAL Bulletin explores a number of challenges and potential opportunities for inland waterway development in South America. The main focus of the discussion is on financing and policy challenges for efforts ...
Planificación del desarrollo industrial
(Siglo Veintiuno, 2014)
Argentina’s competitiveness matrix: the natural resource controversy and the country’s evolving trade position
(2019-04-15)
This paper uses Fajnzylber and Mandeng’s competitiveness matrix to analyse the evolving structure of Argentine exports between 1985 and 2010. In particular, it seeks to identify links between the country’s export pattern, ...
Water governance for development and sustainability
(ECLAC, 2006-06)
Abstract
This document aims to identify characteristics of water institutions which promote the sustainable integration of water, both as a resource and as service, into socioeconomic development. As this does not depend ...
Mapping social conflicts in natural resources: a text mining study of extractive activities
(2020-08-31)
Applying text mining techniques, a methodology was developed to measure the number of social conflicts related to the exploitation of non-renewable natural resources. The study focuses on conflicts in four mining countries ...
Natural resources: status and trends towards a regional development agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean. Contribution of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
(ECLAC, 2013-12)
The boom in international prices for metals, oil and other commodities was caused by the rising global demand for these items on the back of the extraordinary growth seen in China’s economy and in other emerging economies ...
The present state and future prospects of the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean
(1995-04)
Most studies of the region's economy say little or nothing about the status of its environment and natural resources; few references are made to the environmental quality of population centres or to fluctuations in natural ...
Sustainable development: changing production patterns, social equity and the environment
(ECLAC, 1991-05)
Foreword In March 1990, the secretariat of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) placed before the Governments of its member States a proposal for the development of the countries of Latin ...