Gold mining produces large environmental impacts with significant land-use conversion and pollution of both water and air, linked to mercury and other heavy metals. The communities engaged in gold

Most concerns of pollution centralize the debate on PM, and forget that other pollutants such as ozone may also have impacts on public health. In the literature, little is known about how ozone

As programs of payment for ecosystem or environmental services (PES) are rising in number, there is a need to understand effects of PES on providers’ motivations and, in turn, behaviors. ‘Crowding in’

Medellin, the second largest city in Colombia, is located in the Aburrá Valley and exhibits the lowest level of air quality of the country due to PM2.5 (IDEAM, 2016).The topographic characteristics

Artisanal fishing in developing countries usually lacks statistics that allow proper research and understanding about livelihoods and fishing models; that makes it difficult to propose alternative

Latin America is the most urbanized region in the world with almost 80 per cent of the total population living in urban centers (UN Habitat 2014). Despite the benefits brought about by agglomeration

During the mid-1990s one of the most ambitious land reforms of recent decades took place in Colombia. The objective was to recognize collective rights over land to the Afro-descendants in the Pacific