Revista Kawsaypacha: sociedad y medio ambiente
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ISSN: 2523-2894
Revista Kawsaypacha: sociedad y medio ambiente es una publicación académica arbitrada del Instituto de Ciencias de la Naturaleza, Territorio y Energías Renovable de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (INTE-PUCP).
Desde este espacio se busca aportar al debate académico que, desde diferentes perspectivas, analiza la interacción sociedad y medio ambiente.
A través de este medio se difunden artículos académicos que dan cuenta de investigaciones e innovaciones tecnológicas que aportan al conocimiento, innovación y desarrollo de soluciones prácticas referidas a temas ambientales. Se publica con una periodicidad semestral.
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The crisis, an opportunity to accelerate change
In this article we examine the current situation of our country regarding the Pandemic and the excessive use of pollutant energy (mainly based in hydrocarbons), as well as the requirement of a gradual change to cleaner and ... -
Legal considerations on environmental policy and the COVID-19 pandemic
This study identifies some premises, by way of context, about the relationship between the environment and COVID-19, and then addresses an aspect of the environmental legal system, that is, environmental policy and relates ... -
Environmental law across cultures
A propósito del libro Environmental Law Across Cultures. Comparisons for Legal Practice. Earthscan from Routledge, Junker, Kirk W. (Ed.), 2020 -
Policy context for the forest in the future: Pandemic, economy and environment in Peru
How is the national competitiveness plan connected to sustainability in Peru? The OECD recommendations for environmental performance in Peru related to economy and environment has been pursued? How to reverse the Amazon ... -
The Post-Quarantine Economic Reactivation Environmental and Social Challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a humanitarian and economic crisis globally, and especially Peru has been hit by this virus. After the quarantine finished (July first), the new normal has imposed new rules of coexistence, ... -
Urban Law, Territorial Planning and Challenges Imposed by COVIC-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 Pandemic has created different challenges for Peruvian cities. How Urban Law and urban regulation should respond to those challenges? The article tries to respond to this question by revisiting the concept of Urban ... -
Intercultural Spacing: The Construction of Symbolic Territory and Its Ethical-Aesthetic Cartographies as Visual Memory of Belonging Processes in Lima Metropolitana
It is attempted to show the possibilities of symbolic representation under an interdisciplinary approach, from Art and Architecture applied to the peripheral problems of the environment and to their reconstruction from the ... -
Livelihoods and coping strategies based on migration for families affected by environmental deteriorations in high andean communities «There’s no life here; that’s why they went away»
In Andean communities, many families whose livelihoods depend on farming and raising livestock are exposed to increasing degradation of their ecosystem and to food insecurity. The objective of this paper is to examine the ... -
Comparison of Noise Levels, Legal Framework and Environmental Noise Management in Lima and Callao with Regard to other Latin-American Cities
Given the unbalanced urban development, the rapid economic growth and the various migrations toward the capital, Metropolitan Lima has become in a chaotic center where noise surpass the recommended exposure levels given ... -
Health and Environmental Risks Due to the Use of Mercury-Containing Lamps
This research was developed in order to analyze the management and management of mercury-containing lamps and to identify the health and environmental risks related to their mercury content. Taking into account that mercury ... -
Critical review of the scope and limits of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): the case of the Santa Eulalia sub-basin
The Santa Eulalia Sub-basin is essential for Lima city. It provides water for its population, which is almost the third part of the national population. This article focus on the expectation and interests on water of the ... -
Impact of the Ingestion of Plastic Waste in Fish
The present research corresponds to a review on the investigations carried out based on the exposure of a diversity of fish to different concentrations and types of plastic waste, either through direct intake, exposure to ... -
Wetlands in the Environmental Assessment of the Proposed Chinchero Airport
The article reviews an environmental assessment of a proposed airport in an area of high Andean wetlands with high natural, cultural and socioeconomic value. Besides a deficient base line, this paper proposes that a poor ... -
«Coronavirus» as Manchachi Notes about Conceptions and Behaviors in the Face of Fear
The article analyzes the meaning of the manchasqa term or mancharisqa (scared), at the time of the coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2, among the people in Andes Quechua, and behaviors that take the threat of the spread of the virus ... -
Technoscience, irony and care
This paper has three sections. Firstly, I explore what the term technoscience does mean. I justify the relevance of the term on both a) the empirical evidence that social studies of science bring up, and b) the philosophical ...