El medio ambiente en el nuevo universo audiovisual


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El nuevo ecosistema audiovisual, en el que las televisiones tratan de convivir con Internet, ofrece grandes posibilidades para informar, sensibilizar y educar al público sobre los retos ambientales a los que se enfrenta nuestra sociedad. Sin embargo, la investigación pone de manifiesto que los medios no han estado a la altura del envite, debido a la complejidad de las cuestiones ambientales, la siempre difícil relación de la ciencia con los medios de comunicación y la creciente tendencia hacia el infoentretenimiento. El medio ambiente en el nuevo universo audiovisual es el resultado tangible de un rico debate generado en la octava edición del foro «Transformar la televisión», reunido en La Casa Encendida, centro social y cultural de Fundación Montemadrid. En las páginas de este volumen, una decena de expertos en la materia analizan, con rigor y valentía, la representación audiovisual del medio ambiente en este nuevo paradigma comunicativo, en el que los formatos televisivos tradicionales han perdido peso y el vídeo en línea ha alcanzado un notable desarrollo, impulsado por las redes sociales.




Rangelands


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McGraw-Hill Education Preparacion para el Examen de GED, Tercera edicion


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¡Obtenga la guía para el examen de GED en la que confían más estudiantes! Para tener éxito en el examen de GED, usted necesita la mejor orientación de educadores y capacitadores especializados. Esa es la razón por la que más estudiantes eligen Preparación para el Examen de GED, de McGraw-Hill, la guía para el examen preferida en los Estados Unidos de América. Este libro lo ayudará en el aprendizaje, paso a paso, de las cuatro asignaturas del examen―Razonamiento a través de las artes del lenguaje, Razonamiento matemático, Ciencias y Estudios sociales. Usted encontrará en él todo el material de repaso y de práctica necesarios para obtener las mejores calificaciones y conseguir su certificado de educación secundaria. Con Preparación para el Examen de GED, de McGraw-Hill, usted: Aprenderá todo lo que necesita saber sobre el examen y cómo dominarlo Dispondrá de exámenes completos de práctica modelados sobre el verdadero examen de GED Podrá descubrir sus puntos fuertes y sus debilidades con los exámenes preliminares, y focalizar así sus estudios Podrá prepararse para cada asignatura del examen con textos instructivos, cuestionarios y ejercicios de práctica sobre cada uno de los temas Podrá comprobar el grado de preparación que ha alcanzado con exámenes de práctica sobre todas las asignaturas del examen Podrá familiarizarse con el nuevo formato electrónico del examen, un desafío adicional Preparación para el Examen de GED, de McGraw-Hill, lo ayudará a perfeccionar sus habilidades, aumentar su confianza, disminuir el estrés y obtener los mejores resultados el día del examen. America’s most trusted guide to the GED test―in Spanish! Preparación para el Examen de GED gives Spanish-speaking students intensive review and practice in all subject areas of the exam. It provides the ideal in-depth preparation for the Spanish-language version of the GED test. For the thousands of students who take the Spanish-language GED test each year, this new version of McGraw-Hill classic guide provides a complete preparation course for the latest test format. This book covers all four test subject areas―reasoning through language arts, social studies, science, and mathematical reasoning. Preparación para el Examen de GED: Walks readers step-by-step through all topics covered on the test Includes a pretest for every section that helps readers identify strengths and weaknesses before study Offers hundreds of exercises that reinforce new skills Offers full-length posttests in every test subject, with complete explanations for every question




The Tropical Silk Road


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This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a "New Health Silk Road" agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South America, extending the Eurasian-African "Belt and Road Initiative" to a series of mine, port, energy, infrastructure, and agrobusiness megaprojects in the Latin American tropics. Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impressive array of contributors, from economists, anthropologists, and political scientists to Black, feminist, and Indigenous community organizers, Chinese stakeholders, environmental activists, and local journalists to offer a pathbreaking analysis of China's presence in South America. As cracks in the progressive legacy of the Pink Tide and the failures of ecocidal right-wing populisms shape new political economies and geopolitical possibilities, this book provides a grassroots-based account of a post-US centered world order, and an accompanying map of the stakes for South America that highlights emerging voices and forms of resistance.




Social Conflict, Economic Development and the Extractive Industry


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The extraction of minerals, oil and gas has a long and ambiguous history in development processes – in North America, Europe, Latin America and Australasia. Extraction has yielded wealth, regional identities and in some cases capital for industrialization. In other cases its main heritages have been social conflict, environmental damage and underperforming national economies. As the extractive economy has entered another boom period over the last decade, not least in Latin America, the countries in which this boom is occurring are challenged to interpret this ambiguity. Will the extractive industry yield, for them, economic development, or will its main gifts be ones of conflict, degradation and unequal forms of growth. This book speaks directly to this question and to the different ways in which Latin American countries are responding to the challenge of extractive industry. The contributors are a mixture of geographers, economists, political scientists, development experts and anthropologists, who all draw on sustained field work in the region. By digging deep into both national and local experiences with extractive industry they demonstrate the ways in which it transforms economies, societies, polities and environments. They pay particular attention to the social conflict that extraction consistently produces, and they ask how far this conflict might usher in political and institutional changes that could lead to a more productive relationship between extraction and development. They also ask whether the existence of left-of-centre governments in the region changes the relationships between extractive industry and development. The book makes clear the immense difficulties that countries and regional societies face in harnessing extractive industry for the collective good. For the most part the findings question the wisdom of the development model that many countries in the region have taken up and which emphasises the productive roles of mining and hydrocarbon industries. The book should be of interest to students and researchers of Development Studies, Geography, Politics and Political Economy, as well as Anthropology.




The Low-Carbon Contradiction


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In the pursuit of socialism, Cuba became Latin America’s most oil-dependent economy. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the country lost 86 percent of its crude oil supplies, resulting in a severe energy crisis. In the face of this shock, Cuba started to develop a low-carbon economy based on economic and social reform rather than high-tech innovation. The Low-Carbon Contradiction examines this period of rapid low-carbon energy transition, which many have described as a “Cuban miracle” or even a real-life case of successful “degrowth.” Working with original research from inside households, workplaces, universities, and government offices, Gustav Cederlöf retells the history of the Cuban Revolution as one of profound environmental and infrastructural change. In doing so, he opens up new questions about energy transitions, their politics, and the conditions of a socially just low-carbon future. The Cuban experience shows how a society can transform itself while rapidly cutting carbon emissions in the search for sustainability.




El Desafío Venezolano


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Italia


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