Medio ambiente y desarrollo

"Excellent study by a team of Colombian social scientists of the recent evolution of Colombian-Venezuelan relations and their process of integration. Analyzes Colombian and Venezuelan roles in the other country's foreign policy, evolution of bilateral relations (1989-92), commercial relations, and negotiations and agreements on border, commercial, transportation, energy, environmental, and other issues. Concludes that integration process has lost momentum and recommends the reduction of the number and complexity of issues under discussion, while focusing attention on implementation of...

"The Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular, a well-known Colombian research center, coordinated analysis for this work as part of a multi-cultural project organized by the Asociación Peruana de Estudios y Investigaciones para la Paz. Investigates the culture of violence including its impact on daily life, the media, and the economy, as well as its relationship with narcotics and organized crime. Contributors are well-established scholars"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"Ground-breaking, comprehensive multivolume history of the Huila dept. from pre-conquest to the present. Work is the product of the collaboration of diverse university faculty and regional specialists who utilized archival, published, and oral sources to write monographic essays on individual topics. Vol. 1 covers preconquest through the colonial era; vol. 2 covers independence through the 20th century; vol. 3 covers economic topics, social movements, colonization, government; vol. 4 covers education, daily life, women, health, diversions; vol. 5 covers literature, art, architecture....

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...