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“Earth and Health” or medical geology has been promoted worldwide as one of the fundamental themes of the International Year of Planet Earth (2007–2009). This was in response to relevant achievements noted in this new field of applied science from the time of the IGCP 454 project which led to foundation of the International Medical Geology Association (IMGA) in 2004. In association with international...
Brazil and Argentina have managed to grow almost continuously since 2003 and to sustain partial improvements in a number of social indicators: poverty, unemployment, access to basic services, and primary education. At the same time, Argentina and Brazil have increased their R&D expenditure and set new priorities as regards training of human resources in Science and Technology. However, this scenario...
We analyze the options available for Bolivia with regard to the exploitation of its natural gas resource base. While much of the commercial focus to date has been on developing delivery infrastructure and marketing supply to Brazil and Argentina, other options are available. In particular, producing and selling electricity to its neighbors may be especially attractive since there are also vast untapped...
The process of transformation in government and operations in the power sector leads to interaction between increasing integrated markets and public agencies in charge of policy making, regulation and control. This is examined for Latin America. First, state reform and state policies in Latin America are considered, where present concerns, state-market relationship (the position of regulation, globalization,...
South America is facing important challenges in electricity supply to allow for future economic development. Current electricity market designs are being reviewed to avoid supply difficulties and couple with existing outlook of primary energy resources and investment interest by the private sector. Examples of these developments are the giant Brazil, the economically troubled Argentina, and the pioneer...
The process of transformation in the government and the operations in the power sector leads to the topic of interaction between increasingly integrated markets and the public agencies in charge of policy making, regulation and control. The search for efficiency is set on a global, strategical basis, and in front there stands the prospective function of the State, related to long range sustainability,...
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