Spanish Abstract: Este escrito describe y analiza el proceso histórico colombiano relacionado con la colonización de baldíos entre 1850 y 1910, a partir de su dinámica de desarrollo y formación en permanente conflicto social a través de los años, con sus implicaciones económicas,...

Tackling climate change and improving energy security are two of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges. In this book, Marilyn Brown and Benjamin Sovacool offer detailed assessments of the most advanced commercially available technologies for strengthening global energy security,...

Canadian mining in Guatemala has been associated with violence and death. Opposition to an INCO mine in the El Estor region in the 1960's resulted in the assassination of two law professors, and another activist has been killed in 2009. In the San Marcos region of Guatemala, two deaths are...

Dutch-Caribbean plantations attracted substantial outside funding in the 1760s. This came to an abrupt end after the 1773 credit crisis. We use one banker's detailed archives to analyze how bankers and investors were initially able to overcome asymmetric information problems, and why the system...

21st century thinking on this area of agricultural development speaks to enabling productive but asset-poor Jamaican farmers to succeed through market-based risk financing instruments(which would assist greatly in the 100% increase he is asking of Portland Farmers).Market-based risk financing...

Spanish Abstract: Este documento aborda la relación entre variables socioeconómicas tales como cambio demográfico, frontera agropecuaria, acceso a mercados y tendencias históricas de acceso a la tierra como factores puramente sociales y políticos tales como la presencia de colonato en 1960...

Marihuana consumption in Colombia did not become spread as a simple result of its increased use as part of the north-American counterculture of the 1960s. Even though increased crop growing spiraled to satisfy north-American demand at the end of the 1960s and 1970s, there was an important market...

Food is not a trivial issue in the Caribbean. The islands of the Caribbean are usually characterized as densely populated and dependent on food imports as a result of their colonial history as producers of sugar in large plantations and under conditions of slavery. The story is largely true....

Spanish Abstract: El propósito de este artículo es mostrar cómo la construcción y operación del Ferrocarril de Antioquia permite analizar, desde el punto de vista de las políticas públicas y de la acción de los empresarios extranjeros, los procesos sociales desde la perspectiva local y...