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The Río Piedras Watershed
Introduction Today, more people live in cities than in rural environments. In Puerto Rico, the proportion of the population that lives in cities passed the 50-percent threshold in the late 1960s and was 94 percent in 2000 (López Marrero and Villanueva Colón 2006). Such a high concentration of human activity raises numerous conservation challenges. On the one ...
Metodología para el diseño de muestreo socio-ambiental en la Cuenca del Río Piedras:
Metodología para el diseño de muestreo socio-ambiental en la Cuenca del Río Piedras: San Juan, Puerto Rico José Seguinot Barbosa y Rubén Hernández García Departamento de Salud Ambiental Recinto de Ciencias Médicas Universidad de Puerto Rico jose.seguinot@upr.edu y rubenjhernandez@gmail.com Resumen El presente trabajo tiene como propósito principal diseñar un muestreo para medir las características socio- ...
Adger 2006 Global Env. Change Vulnerability.pdf
This paper reviews research traditions of vulnerability to environmental change and the challenges for present vulnerability research in integrating with the domains of resilience and adaptation. Vulnerability is the state of susceptibility to harm from exposure to stresses associated with environmental and social change and from the absence of capacity to adapt. Antecedent traditions include ...
SJ ULTRA-EX Group 1B
How do biophysical, socio-economic, and institutional factors influence the vulnerability of natural and human dominated ecosystems within the RPRW SES?
Classification Scheme
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