Granville High School Global Awareness Research

Peru - Resources on various topics

Prepared by Magda El-Sherbini

Overcrowded Cities 

• Cusco [electronic resource] : urbanism and archaeology in the Inka world / Ian Farrington ; foreword by Michael E. Smith, Marilyn A. Masson, and John W. Janusek 

• Lima, Peru.  Research Starters. 2017. 

• Lima: postcards from the edge.  Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson). 2000. 

• Output congestion leads to compromised care in Peruvian public hospital neonatal units. Business Source Complete. 2017. 

• Penal reform in Overcrowded times [electronic resource] / edited by Michael Tonry. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. 

• Peru. Oxford African American Studies Center. 2005. 

• Too much garbage, too little water afflict Lima, 'City of Kings.' (Lima, Peru is overcrowded environmental catastrophe).  Academic OneFile. 1992. 

• Will the People Now Take Power? MasterFILE Premier. 2985 

Drug Cartel 

• Cops hurt in bloody gun battle as police ambushed while transporting suspected drug cartel member in Peru; A man in handcuffs is seen covered in blood and apparently bleeding from the head as gunfire blasts all around group and a helicopter hovers overhead.  General OneFile. 2017. 

• Drug cartel behind Zijin Peru copper project attack. General OneFile. 2009. 

• It's alleged the trio was part of a drug cartel who were conspiring to bring the drugs from Peru via Singapore and Papua New Guinea. TVNews. 2018. 

• Mexico drug cartels eyeing Bolivia, Peru.  Global Issues in Context. 2005. 

• Mexican drug trafficking cartels set up camp in Peru.  Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP). 2006. 

• Peru arrests man linked to Mexico's Tijuana drug cartel.  General OneFile. 2009. 

• Peru arrests reputed ally of Mexican drug cartel. Global Issues in Context. 2014. 

• Peru Guerrillas Set Aside Rebellion for Drug Money ; Shining Path Tied to Mexican Cartels. vLex. 2012. 

• Peru president 'accepted drug cartel cash'.(News).  Global Issues in Context. 2000. 

• Peru stunned by military aid to drug cartels; Army, navy andair-force personnel are helping druglords, Phil Davisonreports.(International). Global Issues in Context. 1996. 

• So this Hizbullah cell in Peru is linked to the car salesman in Texas, who is linked to the drug cartel in Mexico, who is linked to Al Capone. InfoTrac Newsstand. 2016. 

• Some drug cartels now make more money from gold than cocaine.  Literature Resource Center. 2016. 

• The Latin American Drug Trade: Scope, Dimensions, Impact, and Response.  AGRIS. 2011. 

• The muzziest of wars; the United States is becoming involved inthe drugs wars of Colombia and Peru; the trouble is that drugs andpolitics get mixed up. (editorial). Global Issues in Context. 1990 

• They Give Party Girls Free Drugs to Lure Them Into Clutches of the Cartels ; Peru Brits: The Ibiza Connectionbrit Girl's Ex Tells of Gang Trap Exclusive. vLex. 222013. 

• Three members of Mexican drug cartel arrested in Peru. General OneFile. 2002. 

Not Enough Doctors 

• Analysis of the Health Care Labor Market in Peru. AGRIS. 2015.  

• Diagnostics barriers and innovations in rural areas: insights from junior medical doctors on the frontlines of rural care in Peru. BASE. 2015.  

• Differences on Primary Care Labor Perceptions in Medical Students from 11 Latin American Countries.  PLoS ONE. 2016. 

• El doctor Javier Samuel Pulgar Vidal y su aporte al conocimiento del Perú. Fuente Académica. 2011. 

•  Geography, Health Status, and Health Investments: An Analysis of Peru. OpenAIRE. 2000. 

• Human resources for health in Peru: recent trends (2007-2013) in the labour market for physicians, nurses and midwives. Social Sciences Citation Index. 2017. 

• [Implementation of medical specialists brigades in the areas of Universal Health coverage: the Peruvian Ministry of Health experience, 2009-2010].  MEDLINE with Full Text. 2011. 

• Self-perceived competence in early diagnosis of cervical cancer among recently graduated physicians from Lima, Peru. Academic Search Complete. 2018. 

• Sistema experto para el diagnóstico de enfermedades respiratorias en el Hospital Central de la Policía Nacional del Perú Luis N. Sáenz.  BASE. 2017. 

• The Health Workforce in Latin America and the Caribbean ; An Analysis of Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay. BASE. 2015. 

Deforestation 

• An overlooked sediment trap in arid environments; ancient irrigation agriculture in the coastal desert of Peru.  GeoRef. 2008. 

• Beyond opportunity costs: who bears the implementation costs of reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation? Scopus. 2018. 

• Climate Crimes : Climate change and deforestation: a case-study of state-corporate crime in Peru. Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations. 2017. 

• Continuous human presence without extensive reductions in forest cover over the past 2500 years in an aseasonal Amazonian rainforest.  GeoRef. 2018. 

• Conservation Beyond Park Boundaries: The Impact of Buffer Zones on Deforestation and Mining Concessions in the Peruvian Amazon.  MEDLINE with Full Text. 2016. 

• Deforestation Drivers in Southwest Amazonia : Comparing Smallholder Farmers in Iñapari, Peru, and Assis Brasil, Brazil.  JSTOR Journals. 2010. 

• Economic benefits of forest conservation : assessing the potential rents from Brazil nut concessions in Madre de Dios, Peru, to channel REDD+ investments.  JSTOR Journals. 2012 

• Environmental predictors of forest change: An analysis of natural predisposition to deforestation in the tropical Andes region, Peru. ScienceDirect. 2018.

• Landscape dynamics of Amazonian deforestation between 1986 and 2007 in southeastern Peru: policy drivers and road implications.  British Library Document Supply Centre Inside Serials & Conference Proceedings. 2014. 

• Linking cultural and environmental change in Peruvian prehistory; geomorphological survey of the Samaca Basin, lower Ica Valley, Peru. GeoRef. 2009. 

• Overlapping land allocations reduce deforestation in Peru.  Scopus. 2018. 

• Peru Amazon undergoing fast deforestation: official.  Zad Newspapers. 2018. 

• Peru : Congressman Sheput verified deforestation work in Piurariver. Global Issues in Context. 2018. 

• Peru Joins the Tropical Forest Alliance in Davos to Stop Tropical Deforestation and Protect Biodiversity in the Amazon. NewsBank. 2019. 

• Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Peru: a challenge to social inclusion and multi-level governance. SwePub. 2014. 

• Regional Deforestation Trends within Local Realities: Land-Cover Change in Southeastern Peru 1996–2011.  Directory of Open Access Journals. 2013. 

• Remote sensing change detection methods to track deforestation and growth in threatened rainforests in Madre de Dios, Peru.  Scopus. 2015. 

• River transport of mercury from artisanal and small-scale gold mining and risks for dietary mercury exposure in Madre de Dios, Peru. FSTA - Food Science and Technology Abstracts. 2015. 

• The Effectiveness of Contrasting Protected Areas in Preventing Deforestation in Madre de Dios, Peru. Environment Complete. 2012. 

• The Political Ecology of Oil Palm Company-Community partnerships in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation consequences of the privatization of rural development.  Scopus. 2018. 

• Threats to biological diversity caused by coca/cocaine deforestation in Peru. JSTOR Journals. 1996. 

• Top-down, Bottom-up and Sideways: The Multilayered Complexities of Multi-level Actors Shaping Forest Governance and REDD+ Arrangements in Madre de Dios, Peru.  GreenFILE. 2018. 

• Transportation costs, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation: Theory and evidence from Peru / Los costos de transporte, la expansión agrícola y la deforestación tropical: Teoría y evidencia de Perú.  SciELO. 2015. 

• U.S. Accuses Peru of Violating Agreement to Protect Rain Forest. Academic OneFile. 2019. 

• Variation in Tree Community Composition and Carbon Stock under Natural and Human Disturbances in Andean Forests, Peru.  Environment Complete. 2018. 

Fresh water  

• A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. GeoRef. 2016. 

• A late Quaternary diatom record of tropical climatic history from Lake Titicaca (Peru and Bolivia). GeoRef. 2003. 

• A paleolimnological perspective on industrial-era metal pollution in the central Andes, Peru. MEDLINE with Full Text. 2008. 

• Assessing hydrological changes in a regulated river system over the last 90Â years in Rimac Basin (Peru).  Agricola. 2018. 

• Assessing the magnitude of potential environmental impacts related to water and toxicity in the Peruvian hyper-arid coast: A case study for the cultivation of grapes for pisco production. MEDLINE with Full Text. 2017. 

• Cenozoic batoids from Contamana (Peruvian Amazonia) with focus on freshwater potamotrygonins and their paleoenvironmental significance. GeoRef. 2017. 

• Comparison of phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity of fresh and freeze-dried potatoes. FSTA - Food Science and Technology Abstracts. 2018. 

• Contemporary distribution and late Quaternary stratigraphy of diatoms in the Junin Plain, Central Andes, Peru. GeoRef. 2006. 

• Design and implementation of an USV for large bodies of fresh waters at the highlands of Peru.  IEEE Xplore Digital Library. 2017. 

• Draft genomes of "Pectobacterium peruviense" strains isolated from fresh water in France. Science Citation Index. 2018. 

• Geology, petrology and geochemistry of coal-seams for the Chimu Formation (Lower Cretaceous) in Alto Chicama Basin (northern Peru).  GeoRef. 2000. 

• High resolution diatom biostratigraphy for the past 400 years from west Pisco Basin, Peru.  GeoRef. 2005. 

• Influence of the hydrological variability on freshwater turtle oviposition in the Amazon floodplains; Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, Peru. GeoRef. 2018. 

• New genera and species of paramphistomes (Digenea: Paramphistomoidea: Cladorchiidae) parasitic in fishes from the Amazon basin in Peru.  Science Citation Index. 2018. 

• Nitrogen cycling in shallow low-oxygen coastal waters off Peru from nitrite and nitrate nitrogen and oxygen isotopes.  Science Citation Index. 2016. 

• Peru's Leader Sends Troops to Stop Looters ; Thousands Desperate for Fresh Water, Food, Supplies.  vLex. 2007. 

• Pleistocene meteoric pore water in dated marine sediment cores off Callao, Peru.  GeoRef. 2004. 

• Public health and municipal water policies in Colonial Lima, Peru, 1535--1635. Academic OneFile. 2016. 

• Review of Fisheries Resource Use and Status in the Madeira River Basin (Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru) Before Hydroelectric Dam Completion. Science Citation Index. 2018. 

• Seasonal stable isotope variations of the modern Amazonian freshwater bivalve Anodontites trapesialis. GeoRef. 2003. 

• Stable isotope records of climate variation in growth increments of Amazonian fresh water bivalves .GeoRef. 2000. 

• Taphonomy fossil whales in diatomaceous sediments of the Neogene Pisco Formation, Peru. GeoRef. 2002. 

• Tapeworms (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea) Of Teleost Fishes From The Amazon River In Peru: Additional Records As An Evidence Of Unexplored Species Diversity. BASE. 2015. 

• The integrity of river and drainage basins systems; challenges from environmental change; integrated analysis of a humid tropical region; the Amazon Basin. GeoRef. 2004. 

• The impact of climate change on water quality in the Cordillera blanca, Peru. GeoRef In Process. 2018.