This paper involved the study of 650 individuals, aged between 1 and 96 years old, from Chaco and Santiago del Estero provinces to assess the health risk related to Arsenic (As) exposure through drinking water in an Argentinean population, applying spatial analytical techniques in addition to conventional approaches.
On this paper, the authors propose the analysis of the modifications in groundwater recharge possibilities in the sandy coast of Buenos Aires on the basis of the variations in land use between 1973 and 2010.
The three projects here selected are also the only ones that caused a considerable displacement of population. The Salto Grande Project, finished in 1979, resulted in the displacement of 12,000 persons in its Argentine side and posed the problem of the need to resettle an entire town of more than 5,000 inhabitants.
The purpose of the study is to explore out-migration as a demographic response to vulnerability and desertification in the arid areas of Argentina.
In this paper, the authors explore the environmental and social dynamics of Jáchal, an arid area located in the province of San Juan in the west of Argentina.
Córdoba, deuxième ville d' Argentine, a commencé à recevoir des immigrants boliviens vers la fin des années 1960. Ces immigrants ont été employés principalement dans le secteur du bâtiment et dans la vente des fruits et légumes sur les marchés de quartier. Dès le début des années 1980, on observe l'amorce d'un nouveau type de mobilité : les agriculteurs saisonniers originaires de Tarija qui s'installent dans la ceinture verte.
The authors report that in Argentina, economic reasons are the main driver for the emigrants to leave the country and settle abroad, principally in Europe and the United States.
In this paper the authors characterized and assessed two important consequences of exurban sprawl in Argentina's Pampas ecoregion: agricultural land conversion, and excess CO2 emission resulting from commute.
This paper describes the conflict between agriculture and urban development in the Pampa Ondulada, the eco-region where the city of Buenos Aires is located and which is one of the world's richest and most productive agricultural areas. It describes and analyzes the ecological changes brought about by urban expansion in peri-urban and rural areas between 1869 and 1991 and the form that these have taken. It also includes an analysis of the soil types where this expansion has taken place.
This policy monograph on the subject of Population and Deforestation in the Humid Tropics is based on the papers of a Seminar on the same topic organized by the Committee on Population and the Environment, one of the scientific committees of IUSSP.
