this article problematized early childhood mortality between 1770 and 1810 to explore its sociocultural significance in the city of Corrientes, located between the Peruvian viceroyalty jurisdiction and the River Plate. The objectives were to analyze the variation in the number o...
coli and enterococci) concentrations in the Betna river in Bangladesh. The scenarios comprise changes in socio-economic variables (e.g. population, urbanization, land use, sanitation and sewage treatment) and climate variables (temperature, precipitation and sea-level rise). Scenarios have been ...
Soba is situated on the outskirts of Khartoum, the capital of the modern Sudan state, ca. 20 km to the southeast of the city center, on the eastern bank of the Blue Nile River. Originally approximately 275 ha in size, the city’s remains have shrunk to no more than 52 ha of land n...
nativeseitherbecomesalariedworkersorgrowcashcropsforsale.ThecaseofMonteCarmeloisoneofthelatter.TheMachiguengansareanethnicgroupoftheArawaklinguisticgroup,withanestimatedpopulationrangingfrom3,500to12,000inhabitants(Ferrero1966:18;Varese1972:173).Theyinhabitthebanksof thestreamsandtributariesoftheUpperUrubambariver...
A close visual inspection of the incidence map suggested that census districts closer to large water bodies (e.g. river networks and lakes) are highly vulnerable to elevated inci- dence rate. This finding can be explained by the fact that both surface and groundwater water quality get severely...