Knowledge: science and environment
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See Also:
- regional → south america → science and environment
- society → issues → environment → conservation and endangered species → regional → south america → peru
Links
- Amazon River Dolphins
http://www.virtualexplorers.org/ - An extensive, well presented study on Amazon River Dolphins in the northern Peruvian Amazon, incorporating background information, field notes, graphics, maps and scientific research. Prepared by educators, students and grad students. Lesson plans available.
- Coca Trade and Environment
http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/PERUCOCA.HTM - Case study from the Trade Environment Database, part of the Mandala Projects at American University. Explores the ecological impact of drug trafficking on the Amazon.
- Trade and Environment: Peru Mining
http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/PERUMINE.HTM - Case study from the Trade Environment Database, part of the Mandala Projects at American University. Examines the impact of globalization on people.
- Spatial Hydrology of the Urubamba River System in Peru
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/CE397/urubamba/peru.htm - Francisco Olivera (Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin) gives a didactic exercise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to examine an Andean watershed. Includes maps and graphics.
- US Geological Survey P 1386-I
http://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1386i/peru/intro.html - A detailed study of glaciation in Peru by Benjamín Morales-Arnao with sections on the Cordillera Blanca on landsat imagery and Quelccaya Ice Cap by Stefan L. Hastenrath.
- Life and Times of J. Francis Macbride
http://www.sacha.org/macbr/intro.htm - Information about the U.S. botanist (1892-1976) and his ground-breaking Flora of Peru series. Excerpts from his travel journal with photos (1922-3).
- Rainforest Conservation Fund
http://www.rainforestconservation.org - RCF informs about efforts to raise funds for and manage the 800,000 acre Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Community Reserve near Iquitos.
- Lost Crops of the Inca
http://books.nap.edu/books/030904264X/html/ - Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation (1989), an online manuscript that covers research about exotic cereales, fruits, roots and tubers.
- The Living Edens: Manu, Peru's Hidden Rain Forest
http://www.pbs.org/edens/manu/ - Supplements information in PBS program, including flora, fauna, history, links and classroom resources. The Manu Biosphere Reserve lies in the Peruvian Amazon.
- El Niño
http://www.tec.army.mil/publications/elnino/ - Discusses short and long term environmental effects on army tactical decision of this current off the Peruvian coast. With links to other information. U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center.
- Peruvian Cactus and Succulent Society
http://cactus-mall.com/specs/ - Informs about activities of this non-profit association, including its annual publication and cacti-related research outside Peru.
- Medical Geography and Cholera
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/warmup/cholera/cholera_f.html - Makes a case study of the epidemic outbreak in 1991, with graphics and geographic information system data files. University of Colorado's Department of Geography
- Information Technology in Peru
http://www.jsbernstein.com/initeb/peru.htm - Jeffrey Bernstein pulls together a broad, current picture of information technology and its impact on the country.
- Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research
http://www.aceer.org/ - Provides information about ACEER's activities in research, education and land husbandry in the Upper Amazon Basin, near Iquitos, where it owns 250,000 acres of rainforest.
- Ilzro Raps Peru (IRP)
http://www.ilzrorapsperu.org/ - Operates in the Amazon Basin of Peru and implements rural electrification programs using renewable energies.
- Conservation Rainforest Trust
http://www.conservationrainforesttrust.org - Nonprofit organization dedicate to Rainforest purchase for conservation, preservation and education.
- International Potato Center - CIP
http://www.cipotato.org/ - Seeking to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweetpotato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.
- Guano Trade
http://www.american.edu/TED/guano.htm - Analyses the history and impact of guano mining and commerce in the 19th and early 20th century, as part of the Trade Environment Database (TED) at American University.
- Anchovy Depletion and Trade
http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/anchovy.htm - Case study from the Trade Environment Database, part of the Mandala Projects at American University. Focuses on trade as an agent of globalization.
- Plants of the Machiguenga
http://manu.montana.com/ - A combination travelogue and scientific inquiry into medicinal uses of rain forest plants. Neurologist Ethan Russo examines the ethnobotany, anthropology, and wildlife of this Amazonian tribe in Parque Nacional del Manu.
- CREES: Rainforest Education and Research Center
http://www.crees-manu.org/ - Education and research programmes for improved sustainable natural resource management and co-operative conservation strategies in tropical environments. Based in Cusco.
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