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Call for Papers: X Congress of the Latin America Population Association (ALAP), 6-9 December 2022
Juventudes y cambio climático: las intersecciones de género, etnia y edad en la configuración de la vulnerabilidad climática en el sector agrícola en Latinoamérica
In this chapter, the authors show that there is a diversity of vulnerabilities in the sense that different groups of young people, who have different degrees of exposure to climate change and may have differentiated resources to deal with them. For this, they examine the threat of high temperatures in the agricultural sector and the differences in vulnerability between the profiles of young people employed in the sector in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Chile.
Sacred mountains in the highlands of the South-Central Andes
Study of the environmental knowledge of the indigenous people of northern Chile and their forced migration due to the exploitation of water for industrial and urban use.
Air pollution and hospitalization for epilepsy in Chile.
Using a daily time-series analyses, the authors tested the association between daily hospitalization for epilepsy in seven Chilean urban centers during the period 2001 and 2005 and gaseous and fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5).
The risk of dying on days of higher air pollution among the socially disadvantaged elderly.
In this study, the authors determined the influence of age, education, employment status and income on the risk of mortality associated with ambient air pollution.
Multiple effects of urbanization on the biodiversity of developing countries: The case of a fast-growing metropolitan area (Concepcion, Chile).
In this paper, the authors discussed the greater impact of urbanization on homogegenizing the biota in developing countries. In developing countries, high population densities, the push for economic growth and the low environmental standards may increase the intensity of urban impacts, displacing completely those native species not adapted to human disturbances.
Estimating Traffic Emissions Using Demographic and Socio-Economic Variables in 18 Chilean Urban Areas.
The paper described an alterntaive model in estimating transport emissions in urban areas. The model correlates pollutant emissions with transportation activity, and demographic and socio-economic variables were correlated with vehicle activity level.
Effects of Human Exclusion on Parasitism in Intertidal Food Webs of Central Chile
The authors propose parasite levels as an indicator of ecosystem stability.
Summer cattle transhumance and wild edible plant gathering in a Mapuche community of Northwestern Patagonia.
Authors analyze the effect of age, gender and the practice of cattle transhumance on the use of wild edible plants in the Mapuche communities of northwestern Patagonia.
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