Search Results - "Irene, Torres"

Contentious environmental governance in polluted gold mining geographies: The case of La Toma, Colombia by Vélez-Torres, Irene, Vanegas, Diana

“…•Mercury politics entails colonial histories and state-led corporate dispossession reproducing inequalities.•Despite prohibitions legislated in Colombia,…”
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Assessing critical gaps in COVID-19 testing capacity: the case of delayed results in Ecuador by Torres, Irene, Sippy, Rachel, Sacoto, Fernando

“…Testing is crucial for COVID-19 response and management, however, WHO's preparedness index omits estimations of actual testing capabilities, which influence…”
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“Fests of Vests”: The Politics of Participation in Neoliberal Peacebuilding in Colombia by Vélez‐Torres, Irene, Gough, Katherine, Larrea‐Mejía, James, Piccolino, Giulia, Ruette‐Orihuela, Krisna

“…The Colombian Peace Agreement signed in 2016 was saluted internationally by scholars, policy makers and practitioners for encompassing the concept of…”
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Trapped in Ceuta: Reflexive tactics and methods in Participatory Filmmaking among cross-border women by Gutiérrez Torres, Irene

“…Recent scholarship has promoted reflexivity in migration research using visual participatory methods. However, the perspectives of cross-border workers living…”
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Slow violence and corporate greening in the war on drugs in Colombia by Vélez-Torres, Irene, Lugo-Vivas, Diego

“…Abstract Next to a broader agrarian reform, the Peace Accord signed between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) and the Colombian Government…”
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The active microbial diversity drives ecosystem multifunctionality and is physiologically related to carbon availability in Mediterranean semi-arid soils by Bastida, Felipe, Torres, Irene F., Moreno, José L., Baldrian, Petr, Ondoño, Sara, Ruiz-Navarro, Antonio, Hernández, Teresa, Richnow, Hans H., Starke, Robert, García, Carlos, Jehmlich, Nico

“…Biogeochemical processes and ecosystemic functions are mostly driven by soil microbial communities. However, most methods focus on evaluating the total…”
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Differential sensitivity of total and active soil microbial communities to drought and forest management by Bastida, Felipe, Torres, Irene F., Andrés‐Abellán, Manuela, Baldrian, Petr, López‐Mondéjar, Rubén, Větrovský, Tomáš, Richnow, Hans H., Starke, Robert, Ondoño, Sara, García, Carlos, López‐Serrano, Francisco R., Jehmlich, Nico

“…Climate change will affect semiarid ecosystems through severe droughts that increase the competition for resources in plant and microbial communities. In these…”
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STUB1 Mutations as Possible Genetic Modifiers in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 8 by Baviera‐Muñoz, Raquel, Carretero‐Vilarroig, Lidón, Pedro‐Ibor, Ana, Jaijo, Teresa, Del Valle‐Carranza, Andrea, Martínez‐Torres, Irene, Millán, Jose M., Bataller, Luis, Aller, Elena

“…Background Spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 (SCA8) is a dominantly inherited expansion disorder with highly variable penetrance. ATXN8OS/ATXN8 expanded alleles…”
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Governmental extractivism in Colombia: Legislation, securitization and the local settings of mining control by Vélez-Torres, Irene

“…This paper analyzes the previous decade of governmental extractivism in Colombia, designed and imposed through two main power mechanisms: legislation and…”
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Shifting sands: Legal dispossession of small-scale miners in an extractivist era by Hougaard, Inge-Merete, Vélez-Torres, Irene

“…•Artisanal sand extraction is done in a social and environmentally responsible way.•Small-scale miners are subtly dispossessed though legal-administrative…”
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Can the labile carbon contribute to carbon immobilization in semiarid soils? Priming effects and microbial community dynamics by Bastida, Felipe, Torres, Irene F., Hernández, Teresa, Bombach, Petra, Richnow, Hans H., García, Carlos

“…Tracer experiments with isotopic-enriched carbon compounds can provide information regarding the carbon cycling in semiarid soils. We studied priming effects…”
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Slow violence in mining and crude oil extractive frontiers: The overlooked resource curse in the Colombian internal armed conflict by Vélez-Torres, Irene, Méndez, Fabián

“…•Mercury in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining and crude oil pipeline bombing spatialize in ethnic territories entailing disproportionate effects.•An…”
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Genetics of Wilson disease and Wilson‐like phenotype in a clinical series from eastern Spain by Sánchez‐Monteagudo, Ana, Álvarez‐Sauco, María, Sastre, Isabel, Martínez‐Torres, Irene, Lupo, Vincenzo, Berenguer, Marina, Espinós, Carmen

“…Wilson's disease (WD) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by ATP7B mutations. Subjects with only one mutation may show clinical signs and individuals…”
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Beyond property: Rural politics and land‐use change in the Colombian sugarcane landscape by Vélez‐Torres, Irene, Varela, Daniel, Cobo‐Medina, Víctor, Hurtado, Diana

“…Analysing the sugarcane landscape in the flat valley of the Cauca River (Colombia) reveals that agricultural industrialization in the region required the…”
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Local antimicrobial delivery systems for prophylaxis and treatment of periprosthetic traumatological infections by Aparicio-Blanco, Juan, López-Torres, Irene I., Alonso-Berenguel, María, Torres-Suárez, Ana I., Martín-Sabroso, Cristina

“…Infections associated with implants are the most serious complications in joint replacement surgeries and can jeopardize the functionality of orthopedic…”
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The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research by Ide, Tobias, Johnson, McKenzie F., Barnett, Jon, Krampe, Florian, Le Billon, Philippe, Maertens, Lucile, von Uexkull, Nina, Vélez-Torres, Irene

“…Interest in the intersections of environmental issues, peace and conflict has surged in recent years. Research on the topic has developed along separate…”
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Water pollution and environmental policy in artisanal gold mining frontiers: The case of La Toma, Colombia by Casso-Hartmann, Lisseth, Rojas-Lamos, Paulina, McCourt, Kelli, Vélez-Torres, Irene, Barba-Ho, Luz Edith, Bolaños, Byron Wladimir, Montes, Claudia Lorena, Mosquera, Jaime, Vanegas, Diana

“…Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the largest anthropogenic source of mercury emissions globally. Concern over mercury pollution increases due to…”
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Toxic Dispossession: On the Social Impacts of the Aerial Use of Glyphosate by the Sugarcane Agroindustry in Colombia by Hurtado, Diana, Vélez-Torres, Irene

“…Over the last five decades, the total area cultivated with sugarcane in Colombia has increased by 280%. The consolidation of the sugarcane agroindustrial…”
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Structures, actors, and interactions in the analysis of natural resource conflicts by Salman, Ton, de Theije, Marjo, Vélez-Torres, Irene

“…We propose a research approach to natural resource conflicts that includes different tempos of the developments that lead to a conflict becoming manifest. This…”
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Land use shapes the resistance of the soil microbial community and the C cycling response to drought in a semi-arid area by Moreno, José Luis, Torres, Irene F., García, Carlos, López-Mondéjar, Rubén, Bastida, Felipe

“…The aim of this study was to understand the responses of the microbial community of soil under different land uses to drought in a semi-arid Mediterranean…”
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