Latin America Nodal Office

Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER)
ignacio.gasparri@gmail.com

+54 381 4255174

Universidad Nacional de Tucumán – CONICET
IER-LIEY
CC 34
4107 Yerba Buena Tucumán
Argentina

Focus on: Latin American land use change in relation to globalization; environmental services in land use frontiers and transitional zone; land use efficiency and conflicts.
The nodal office is hosted by the Instituto de Ecologia Regional (UNT_CONICET)
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News

 
September 24, 2020

Private-land control and deforestation dynamics in the context of implementing the Native Forest Law in the Northern Argentinian Dry Chaco

A novel remote-sensing application can serve as an early-warning tool for deforestation.

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September 9, 2020

Third GLP telecoupling webinar on modelling land use change, recording and materials now available

The GLP working group Telecoupling Towards Sustainable Transformation held its third webinar to discuss the progress and challenges of modelling telecoupled systems by presenting two different modelling attempts of simulating land use changes in Brazil and China through the flow of international soybean trade.

 

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August 18, 2020

Paths to Sustaining Forests and Communities in Guatemala's Maya Reserve

This event from early August explored two recent media stories raising questions about the grand park development plan, which has the support of several powerful U.S. senators.

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August 18, 2020

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Current Transformations at Extractive and Agrarian Frontiers in Latin America

A new special issue of the Journal of Land Use Science illustrates the multi-dimensionality of land use change at Latin American frontiers by exploring transdisciplinary cross-fertilization. 

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