Sökning: "Amazonia"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 uppsatser innehållade ordet Amazonia.

  1. 1. Struggling to make a life in the Peruvian Amazon: A case study on the livelihood activities in the indigenous community Naranjal

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Författare :Célina Marie Scülfort; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Sustainable Development; SDGs 2; 3; 15; agriculture and forestry; rural livelihoods; indigenous communities; Peruvian Amazon; forest landscapes; smallholder farming; access to food; local knowledge;

    Sammanfattning : International climate mitigation agendas increasingly focus on the conservation of tropical forests such as the Amazon due to their high potential of sequestering large amounts of carbon. At the same time, Peru’s Amazonian frontier is increasingly subject to market pressures and other factors contributing to deforestation and the expansion of the agricultural frontier. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Mining and Indigenous Peoples' rights: an analysis of the Brazilian Amazon from an international human rights law perspective

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Författare :Liliana Picchi Cappuccelli; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Mining; gold; Indigenous Peoples; Brazilian Amazon; Indigenous lands; sustainable development; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : The present study seeks to understand the impacts of mining on Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the Brazilian Amazon. For this purpose, after an introduction of the context of mining historically, socially, and geographically in Brazil, a framework of Indigenous Peoples’ rights is described, and each right analyzed separately. LÄS MER

  3. 3. “Our libraries are dying”: Biopiracy and the social value of traditional medicinal knowledge in Ecuadorian Amazonia

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Författare :Ellen Forssell; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Biopiracy; Traditional Knowledge; Bioprospecting; Social Justice; Environmental Justice; Amazonia; Human Ecology; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : In a global social divide between modern and traditional, medicine has fallen into two sides. Still, much of modern medicine exists because of traditional medicinal knowledge, yet the latter is rarely given any recognition. LÄS MER

  4. 4. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Omagua–Kokama–Tupinambá

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Olof Lundgren; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Omagua; Kokama; Tupinambá; Tupí–Guaraní; historical linguistics; comparative linguistics; contact linguistics; phonology; creole languages; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Las lenguas omagua [omg] y kokama [cod] de la familia tupí–guaraní constituyen ejemplos interesantes de contacto lingüístico en Amazonia. Esto es evidente de su léxico que es mayormente tupí–guaraní, con un gran porcentaje de formas no-tupí–guaraní, y la gramática, que es muy distinta de otras lenguas tupí–guaraní. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Os Barbadianos em Mad Maria : Exemplo da figuração duma personagem coletiva no Novo Romance Histórico

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

    Författare :Marlon Görnert; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Barbadianos na Amazónia; Mad Maria; Márcio Souza; Migração Caribenha; Novo Romance Histórico; literatura amazonense; teoria pós-colonial; O Caribe na literatura.;

    Sammanfattning : A descri��o dum subg�nero dentro da fic��o hist�rica que se distinguiu pela sua distancia��o do Romance Hist�rico Tradicional em v�rios aspetos, o chamado Novo Romance Hist�rico, ocupou muitos estudiosos nas �ltimas d�cadas. Mais recentemente, o catedr�tico portugu�s Carlos Reis real�ou a import�ncia da personagem como categoria narrativa na literatura, opondo-se �s tend�ncias estruturalistas que marcam os estudos liter�rios modernos. LÄS MER