Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become a technology that serves public, commercial, and research purposes. By all expectations, AI will increasingly have a significant impact on the operations of international ...

Much has been done to formalize miners in Peru; since its inception in 2006 the Ministry of Environment passed laws to align mining policies with international standards. However, the combination of the necessity to have ...

Efforts to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals are increasingly part of tourism business planning, forming part of their business policies, linking with society and generating a sustainable hotel offer. The ...

This chapter aims to demonstrate the importance of experiential learning and how the process of transmitting classroom content through this method allows students to participate in the transformation and improvement of ...

There are several reasons that explain why community and citizens’ media are so widespread and popular in Latin America. This chapter offers a series of short vignettes set in Colombia that describe the intricate processes ...

Extractive industries in coastal and marine zones have been under way for a long time, albeit with limited planning and safeguards to operate in these sensitive areas. Absence of integrated spatial planning and management ...

This chapter provides a population-based analysis of the distribution and potential capacity of different types health care facilities in Peru. Health care facilities are heavily concentrated in the major urban areas of ...

In Peru, the appearance of the MiVivienda Sostenible Bonus has brought to light the concern for sustainability in social housing, and this issue should be understood with a perspective of the satisfaction of the users’ ...

In Criminology, fear of crime has been by and large a more common object of study than perceived risk of crime. Both concepts seem to be highly related. After all, they share theories (LaGrange, Ferraro, and Supanic 1992), ...

After more than two decades of research on technological interventions in the transition to information societies, the burgeoning of mobile phones in developing countries has shifted the information and communication ...