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1.    CORRIDORS

1.1    Composite description    

http://www.analitica.com/va/ambiente/opinion/1324024.asp
Ambiente, proyectos de integración física en América Latina y desarrollo sustentable en Venezuela
Elemento humano y preservación ambiental. Conciliación economía – ecología.

http://www.tucuman.com/produccion/1997/97oct_14.htm
Integración Región de Antofagasta: Eje del Corredor Bioceánico del Norte
 North bioceanic corridor.

http://www.puertosdeargentina.com.ar/ROUruguay/montevideo.htm
Puerto de Montevideo
 Montevideo port as  Mercosur’s main cargo route.  

http://www.bicusa.org/lac.htm
Latin America and the Caribbean: Projects and Policies
Mexican Mesoamerican Biological Corridor.
Santa Cruz-Puerto Suárez (Bolivia) Highway. Corredor Sur (Panamá).

http://www.e-camara.com-pe/revista/2290/integracion.htm
Mirando hacia el Pacífico
Corredor Bioceánico. Perú, Bolivia, Paraguay

http://nutep.adm.ufrgs.br/mercosul/ESTRI.html#corredor
Rosario en el corredor bioceánico
Desarrollo de la hidrovía Paraná – Paraguay. Corredores multimodales a lo largo de su recorrido. Necesidades de infraestructura. Reactivación del aeropuerto Internacional de Rosario

http://www.enter-net.com.br/rol/ESPANOL/corredor/
Corredores bioceánicos para el desarrollo
Primera Región de Tarapacá, cuenca del Pacífico (Chile). Area estratégica como puerta comercial del Cono Sur.
Proyectos de inversión en infraestructura.

http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/PANAMA.HTM
Pan-American Highway and the Environment
Infraestructure, economic and environmental issues.

http://www.puentep-laracolonia.com.ar/ingles.html
Comisión Binacional Puente Buenos Aires Colonia
Southern Cone road axis. Trade agreements. Strong interconnection between transportation networks and higher services levels. Enhancement and integration of power and telecommunication networks. Puente Colonia – Buenos Aires, within the framework of Buenos Aires – San Pablo axis. Background, agreements, registered improvements.

http://www.aladi.org
Integración física en el marco de la ALADI
Selección de documentos sobre transporte publicados por la ALADI. Infraestructura física. Proyectos.

http://www.aladi.org/NSFALADI/SITIO.NSF/INICIO
Sistema de Información de Transporte para los países miembros de ALADI
Información actualizada acerca del transporte regional y su infraestructura. Provee ademas mapas de la región.

Hidrovía, Energía, Meio Ambiente Amazonia. Rede de Universidades e Mesas de Gestao Ambiental.
Fundacao CENTROLESTE. Simposio Internacional, Piracicaba, SP. May, 2000. 71 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Consórcio Operacional do Corredor de Transportes Centroleste.
E-mail: [email protected]
Land use and environment degradation, energy and environment, Amazon ecosystem.

Evaluación y reducción de la vulnerabilidad: un enfoque indispensable para la gestión territorial.
Nelly Amalia Gray de Cerdán. Estudios Geograficos, Tomo LVIV, no 230. January/March, 1998 . 12 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Center of Territorial Strategies for Mercosur (CETEM).
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.  Departamento de Geografía. E-mail: [email protected]
Vulnerability evaluation and reduction: An indispensable approach to land management.
Evaluation of the population and properties exposure to environmental hazards.
Potential risk and social costs forecasts. Transport networks vulnerability.
Importance of geographers’ colaboration in land use management. Potential risk situation.
Areas suitable to receive investments with low environmental costs.

Corredor Bi Oceanico da Amazonia.
CENTROLESTE Transulamericano. Fundacao CENTROLESTE. Rio de Janeiro. April 2000.  83 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Consórcio Operacional do Corredor de Transportes Centroleste.
E-mail: [email protected]  
South American geo-economic desarticulation. Mercosur Atlantic Corridor. Information Corridor.
Transandean railroad. The port as a main figure of regional development.

Qué piensan los uruguayos del Puente Colonia – Buenos Aires?
Universidad de la República. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Sociología.
Enrique Mazzei, Danilo Veiga. 44 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: [email protected]
The relationship between the Colonia-Buenos Aires bridge and the San Pablo – Buenos Aires
road corridor. Uruguay insertion through the Colonia – Buenos Aires bridge and the Hidrovía.
Social sense, civil society response, consequences, implications, population impacts.

Corredor Doña Rosa, IV Región. 16 pp. Corredor Las Pircas, Región Metropolitana. 13 pp.
Corredor Las Leñas, VI Región. 13 pp.
Work documents: International workshop. Strategic and land-use planification through the use of multicriteria methods.
To request  a copy, please contact: Organization of American States.
Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment. Natural Hazards Project.
E-mail: [email protected]
Physical (geology, geomorphology, hydrology) and socioeconomic (population, educational level, drinkable water, electricity, soil use) aspects.

Vulnerabilidad y costos en los procesos de Integración Territorial del Mercosur.
El área Cuyo (Argentina) – Región Central (Chile). Nelly Amalia Gray de Cerdán. 28 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Center of Territorial Strategies for Mercosur (CETEM)
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Departamento de Geografía. E-mail: [email protected]  
Vulnerability and costs in the Mercosur territorial integration processes.
The Cuyo Region (Argentina) – Central Region (Chile).
Benefits, the confirmation of new regions as a consequence of integration.
New requirements. Infrastructure, services, demography, energy, production, paths, tunnels. 

MERCOSUR: Su Dimensión Ambiental. Comercio y Prioridades. Políticas de Inversión.
Dr. Maria Leichner Reynal. October 2000. 106 pp. 
To request a copy, please contact: Fundación Ecos, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
E-mail: [email protected].
MERCOSUR: Its environmental dimension. Trade and priorities. Investment policies.
Protected natural areas, internal legislation of each country. Advances related to environmental issues
executed at block level.

Diagnóstico del Transporte Internacional y su Infraestructura en América del Sur. Resumen Ejecutivo.
ALADI, Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración, March, 2001. 29 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: [email protected].
Diagnostic of International Transportation, and its Infrastructure in South America. Executive Summary.
Population, Region´s GDP, international trade evolution, region transportation
(corridors, services supplies).

Vías para la Integración. Acción de la CAF en la infraestructura sostenible de Suramérica.
August, 2000. 99 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: CAF Publications Unit. E-mail: [email protected]
Ways to reach integration. CAF action in South America’s Sustainable Infrastructure.
Transportation, energy and telecomunications physical integration challenges.
Electric and gas power.

La Geografía en el contexto de la Cooperación Internacional.
Nelly Amalia Gray de Cerdán, Geography professor, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.
Revista Cooperación Internacional. 1998. 12 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Center of Territorial Strategies for Mercosur (CETEM).
Universidad de Cuyo. Departamento de Geografía.
E-mail: [email protected].
Geography within the international cooperation context.
Inhabitable territories’ future requirements, natural and human relationships.
Technological level reached and introduced in each ecosystem. Services and infrastructure that each
subregion is able to develop. New territories administration. Decrease of undetected risks and costs,
consequences of reconstruction and regional integration processes.

http://www.iadb.org/intal/ingles/publicaciones/infrastructure_idb.pdf
A New Push for Regional Infrastructure Development in South America.
Document discussing issues related to infrastructure integration in South America.

http://www.iadb.org/res/publications/pubfiles/pubB-2002E_1805.pdf
Regional Infrastructure.
Document discussing the importance of regional infrastructure and other concepts and issues related to it.
 

  1.2.    Commerce

http://www.puentep-laracolonia.com.ar/ingles.html
Comisión Binacional Puente Buenos Aires Colonia
Southern Cone road axis. Trade agreements. Strong interconnection between transportation networks and higher services levels. Enhancement and integration of power and telecommunication networks. Puente Colonia – Buenos Aires, within the framework of Buenos Aires – San Pablo axis. Background, agreements, registered improvements.

http://www.aladi.org/
Integración física en el marco de la ALADI
Selección de documentos sobre transporte publicados por la ALADI. Infraestructura física. Proyectos.

MERCOSUR: Su Dimensión Ambiental. Comercio y Prioridades.  Políticas de Inversión.
Dr. Maria Leichner Reynal. October 2000. 106 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Fundación Ecos, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
E-mail: [email protected].
MERCOSUR: Its environmental dimension. Trade and priorities. Investment policies.
Protected natural areas, internal legislation of each country.
Advances related to environmental issues executed at block level.  

Diagnóstico del Transporte Internacional y su Infraestructura en América del Sur. Resumen Ejecutivo.
ALADI, Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración. March, 2001. 29 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: [email protected].
Diagnostic of International Transportation, and its Infrastructure in South America. Executive Summary.
Population, Region´s GDP, international trade evolution, region transportation
(corridors, services supplies).

 

1.3.     Economic Aspects

http://www.analitica.com/va/ambiente/opinion/1324024.asp
Ambiente, proyectos de integración física en América Latina y desarrollo sustentable en Venezuela
Elemento humano y preservación ambiental. Conciliación economía – ecología.

http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/PANAMA.HTM
Pan-American Highway and the Environment
Infraestructure, economic and environmental issues.

http://www.medioambiente.gov.ar/sian/nodos/catamarca/MACROREG.HTM#macroregión
MACRO REGION. Catamarca (Argentina), La Rioja (Argentina), Atacama (Chile), Paso San Francisco
Corredor Bioceánico, ubicación ventajosa por su vasta zona de influencia. Proyectos económicos, posibilidades de concreción de negocios.

http://www.mre.gov.gr/acs/interclip/jornais/dezembro/observador06b.htm
Inversión de US$ 2.000.000 en eje Mercosur. Diciembre, 2000
El eje Mercosur uniría San Pablo con los puertos chilenos, a través de Argentina y Uruguay.

Diagnóstico del Transporte Internacional y su Infraestructura en América del Sur.
Resumen Ejecutivo. ALADI, Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración. March, 2001. 29 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: sgaladi@aladi.org.
Diagnostic of International Transportation, and its Infrastructure in South America.
Executive Summary.
Population, Region´s GDP, international trade evolution, region transportation
(corridors, services supplies).

http://www.americasnet.net/trade/index.htm
Trade and Integration. Summit of the Americas Center
Information about the different trade agreements in the Americas.

 

1.4.    Energy

http://www.puentep-laracolonia.com.ar/ingles.html
Comisión Binacional Puente Buenos Aires Colonia
Southern Cone road axis. Trade agreements. Strong interconnection between transportation networks and higher services levels. Enhancement and integration of power and telecommunication networks. Puente Colonia – Buenos Aires, within the framework of Buenos Aires – San Pablo axis. Background, agreements, registered improvements.

Hidrovía, Energía, Meio Ambiente Amazonia. Rede de Universidades e Mesas de Gestao Ambiental.
Fundacao CENTROLESTE. Simposio Internacional, Piracicaba, SP. May, 2000 . 71 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Consórcio Operacional do Corredor de Transportes Centroleste.
E-mail: [email protected]
Land use and environment degradation, energy and environment, amazon ecosystem.

Vulnerabilidad y costos en los procesos de Integración Territorial del Mercosur.
El área Cuyo (Argentina) – Región Central (Chile). Nelly Amalia Gray de Cerdán. 28 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Center of Territorial Strategies for Mercosur (CETEM)
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Departamento de Geografía.
E-mail: [email protected]
Vulnerability and costs in the Mercosur territorial integration processes.
The Cuyo Region (Argentina) – Central Region (Chile).
Benefits, the confirmation of new regions as a consequence of integration.
New requirements. Infrastructure, services, demography, energy, production, paths, tunnels. 

Vías para la Integración. Acción de la CAF en la infraestructura sostenible de Suramérica.
August, 2000. 99 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: CAF Publications Unit.
E-mail: [email protected]
Ways to reach integration. CAF action in South America’s Sustainable Infrastructure.
Transportation, energy and telecomunications physical integration challenges.
Electric and gas power.

 

1.5.    Environmental Aspects

http://www.analitica.com/va/ambiente/opinion/1324024.asp
Ambiente, proyectos de integración física en América Latina y desarrollo sustentable en Venezuela
 Physical Integration Projects in Latin America and Sustainable Development in Venezuela
Human element and environmental preservation. Economy – ecology conciliation

http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/PANAMA.HTM
Pan-American Highway and Environment
Infraestructure, economic and environmental aspects.

Hidrovía, Energía, Meio Ambiente Amazonia.
Rede de Universidades e Mesas de Gestao Ambiental.
Fundacao CENTROLESTE. Simposio Internacional, Piracicaba. SP, May, 2000 . 71 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Consórcio Operacional do Corredor de Transportes Centroleste.
E-mail: [email protected]
Land use and environment degradation, energy and environment, amazon ecosystem.  

MERCOSUR: Su Dimensión Ambiental. Comercio y Prioridades.  Políticas de Inversión.
Dr. Maria Leichner Reynal. October 2000. 106 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Fundación Ecos, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
E-mail: [email protected].
MERCOSUR: Its environmental dimension. Trade and priorities. Investment policies.
Protected natural areas, internal legislation of each country.
Advances related to environmental issues executed at block level.

La Geografía en el contexto de la Cooperación Internacional.
Nelly Amalia Gray de Cerdán, Geography professor, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.
Revista Cooperación Internacional. 1998. 12 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Center of Territorial Strategies for Mercosur (CETEM).
Universidad de Cuyo. Departamento de Geografía.
E-mail: [email protected].
Geography within the international cooperation context.
Inhabitable territories’ future requirements, natural and human relationships.
Technological level reached and introduced in each ecosystem.
Services and infrastructure that each subregion is able to develop. New territories administration.
Decrease of undetected risks and costs, consequences of reconstruction and regional
integration processes.

http://www.analitica.com/va/ambiente/opinion/1324024.asp
Ambiente, proyectos de integración física en América Latina y desarrollo sustentable en Venezuela
Elemento humano y preservación ambiental. Conciliación economía – ecología.
 

 

1.6.    Maps

http://www.puentep-laracolonia.com.ar/ingles.html
Comisión Binacional Puente Buenos Aires Colonia
Southern Cone road axis. Trade agreements. Strong interconnection between transportation networks and higher services levels. Enhancement and integration of power and telecommunication networks. Puente Colonia – Buenos Aires, within the framework of Buenos Aires – San Pablo axis. Background, agreements, registered improvements.

http://www.iirsa.org/esp/index.html
Iniciativa para la Integración de la Infraestructura Regional Suramericana
Infrastructure Integration in South America.

http://www.aladi.org/NSFALADI/SITIO.NSF/INICIO
Sistema de Información de Transporte para los países miembros de ALADI
Información actualizada acerca del transporte regional y su infraestructura. Provee ademas mapas de la región.

http://www.oas.org/OSDE/publications/unit/oea33s/p430.JPG
South American Corridors Map

 

1.7.    Natural Hazards

Evaluación y reducción de la vulnerabilidad: un enfoque indispensable para la gestión territorial.
Nelly Amalia Gray de Cerdán. Estudios Geograficos, Tomo LVIV, no 230. January/March, 1998 . 12 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Center of Territorial Strategies for Mercosur (CETEM).
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.  Departamento de Geografía.
E-mail: [email protected]
Vulnerability evaluation and reduction: An indispensable approach to land management.
Evaluation of the population and properties exposure to environmental hazards. Potential risk and
social costs forecasts. Transport networks vulnerability. Importance of geographers’ colaboration in
land use management. Potential risk situation. Areas suitable to receive investments with low
environmental costs.

 

1.8.    Social Aspects

http://www.analitica.com/va/ambiente/opinion/1324024.asp
Ambiente, proyectos de integración física en América Latina y desarrollo sustentable en Venezuela
Elemento humano y preservación ambiental. Conciliación economía – ecología.

Evaluación y reducción de la vulnerabilidad: un enfoque indispensable para la gestión territorial.
Nelly Amalia Gray de Cerdán. Estudios Geograficos, Tomo LVIV, no 230. January/March, 1998. 12 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Center of Territorial Strategies for Mercosur (CETEM)
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Departamento de Geografía.
E-mail: [email protected]
Vulnerability evaluation and reduction: An indispensable approach to land management.
Evaluation of the population and properties exposure to environmental hazards. Potential risk and
social costs forecasts. Transport networks vulnerability. Importance of geographers’ colaboration in
land use management. Potential risk situation. Areas suitable to receive investments with low
environmental costs.

Qué piensan los uruguayos del Puente Colonia-Buenos Aires?
Universidad de la República. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Sociología.
Enrique Mazzei. Danilo Veiga. 44 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: [email protected]
The relationship between the Colonia – Buenos Aires bridge and the San Pablo – Buenos Aires
road corridor.
Uruguay insertion through the Colonia – Buenos Aires bridge and the Hidrovía.
Social sense, civil society response, consequences, implications, population impacts.

Corredor Doña Rosa, IV Región. 16 pp. Corredor Las Pircas, Región Metropolitana. 13 pp.
Corredor Las Leñas, VI Región. 13 pp.
Work documents: International workshop.
Strategic and land-use planification through the use of multicriteria methods.
To request  a copy, please contact: Organization of American States.
Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment. Natural Hazards Project.
E-mail: [email protected]
Physical (geology, geomorphology, hydrology) and socioeconomic (population, educational level,
drinkable water, electricity, soil use) aspects.

Vulnerabilidad y costos en los procesos de Integración Territorial del Mercosur.
El área Cuyo (Argentina) – Región Central (Chile).
Nelly Amalia Gray de Cerdán. 28 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Center of Territorial Strategies for Mercosur (CETEM)
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Departamento de Geografía.
E-mail: [email protected]
Vulnerability and costs in the Mercosur territorial integration processes.
The Cuyo Region (Argentina) – Central Region (Chile).
Benefits, the confirmation of new regions as a consequence of integration.
New requirements. Infrastructure, services, demography, energy, production, paths, tunnels. 

Diagnóstico del Transporte Internacional y su Infraestructura en América del Sur.
Resumen Ejecutivo.
ALADI, Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración. March, 2001. 29 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: [email protected].
Diagnostic of International Transportation, and its Infrastructure in South America.
Executive Summary.
Population, Region´s GDP, international trade evolution, region transportation (corridors, services supplies).

La Geografía en el contexto de la Cooperación Internacional.
Nelly Amalia Gray de Cerdán, Geography professor, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.
Revista Cooperación Internacional. 1998. 12 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Center of Territorial Strategies for Mercosur (CETEM).
Universidad de Cuyo, Departamento de Geografía.
E-mail: [email protected].
Geography within the international cooperation context.
Inhabitable territories future requirements, natural and human relationships.
Technological level reached and introduced in each ecosystem.
Services and infrastructure that each subregion is able to develop. New territories administration.
Decrease of undetected risks and costs, consequences of reconstruction and regional integration
processes.

Integración en América Latina. Hacia un solo espacio económico?
Nelly Amalia Gray de Cerdán. Revista Cooperación Internacional, Volumen 2. 1999. 14 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Center of Territorial Strategies for Mercosur (CETEM).
Universidad de Cuyo. Departamento de Geografía
E-mail: [email protected]
Integration in South America: Towards a single economic space?
Regional structure, integration strategy, available resources revaluation.
New ways of urbanization. Mercosur’s partners’ objectives and challenges.

 

1.9.    Transportation

http://www.puertosdeargentina.com.ar/ROUruguay/montevideo.htm
Puerto de Montevideo
Ruta principal de carga del Mercosur.

http://nutep.adm.ufrgs.br/mercosul/ESTRI.html#corredor
Rosario en el corredor bioceánico
Desarrollo de la hidrovía Paraná – Paraguay. Corredores multimodales a lo largo de su recorrido. Necesidades de infraestructura. Reactivación del aeropuerto Internacional de Rosario.

http://www.puentep-laracolonia.com.ar/ingles.html
Comisión Binacional Puente Buenos Aires Colonia
Southern Cone road axis. Trade agreements. Strong interconnection between transportation networks and higher services levels. Enhancement and integration of power and telecommunication networks. Puente Colonia – Buenos Aires, within the framework of Buenos Aires – San Pablo axis. Background, agreements, registered improvements.

http://www.aladi.org/
Integración física en el marco de la ALADI
Selección de documentos sobre transporte publicados por la ALADI. Transporte aéreo, fluvial, marítimo, terrestre, multimodal. Facilitación del transporte y el comercio. Infraestructura física. Proyectos.

http://www.iirsa.org/esp/index.html
Iniciativa para la Integración de la Infraestructura Regional Suramericana
Infrastructure Integration in South America

http://www.aladi.org/NSFALADI/SITIO.NSF/INICIO
Sistema de Información de Transporte para los países miembros de ALADI
Información actualizada acerca del transporte regional y su infraestructura. Provee ademas mapas de la región.

http://www.puertosdeargentina.com.ar
Argentina al mundo. Actividad portuaria y comercio exterior
Argentinian ports and their infrastructure

http://www.eclac.cl/transporte/noticias/bolfall/9/5019/fal161.htm
Actualidades y perspectivas del Transporte Multimodal, Marítimo y Puertos.
Integración de los sistemas de transporte como objetivo central de las reuniones ministeriales. Iniciativas y planes nacionales. Especialización y privatización de servicios.

www.oas.org/OSDE/publications/unit/oea33s/ch39.htm
Corredores Interregionales de transporte de los países de América del Sur
Concepto de corredor. Principales corredores en América del Sur.
Deficiencias y problemas, carencias de la infraestructura.

http://www.caretas.com.pe/1399/puertos/puertos.html
La guerra de los puertos
Competencia peruano – chilena. Terminales marítimas de los corredores terrestres del siglo XXI. Arica-Iquique-Santa Cruz-Corumba-Santos Antofagasta-Salta-Resistencia-Rio Grande. Matarani-Ilo-Juliaca-Puente Inambari-Puerto Maldonado-Iñapari-Rio Branco.

Multimodal/Intermodal Transportation in the United States, Western Europe, and Latin America.
Governmental Policies, Plans and Programs.
Leigh B. Boske. Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
The University of Texas at Austin. Policy Research Project Report. 1998. 592 pp.
To request a copy, please consult: http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/pubs/books/multi.html

Maritime Transportation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Leigh B. Boske. Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
The University of Texas at Austin. Policy Research Project Report. 1998. 278 pp.
To request a copy, please consult: http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/pubs/books/prp_138.html

Evaluación y reducción de la vulnerabilidad: un enfoque indispensable para la gestión territorial.
Nelly Amalia Gray de Cerdán. Estudios Geograficos, Tomo LVIV, no 230.
January/March, 1998 . 12 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Center of Territorial Strategies for Mercosur (CETEM)
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Departamento de Geografía.
E-mail: [email protected]
Vulnerability evaluation and reduction: An indispensable approach to land management.
Evaluation of the population and properties exposure to environmental hazards.
Potential risk and social costs forecasts. Transport networks vulnerability.
Importance of geographers’ colaboration in land use management. Potential risk situation.
Areas suitable to receive investments with low environmental costs.

Corredor Bi Oceanico da Amazonia. CENTROLESTE Transulamericano.
Fundacao CENTROLESTE. Rio de Janeiro, April 2000.  83 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Consórcio Operacional do Corredor de Transportes Centroleste.
E-mail: [email protected]
South American geo-economic desarticulation. Mercosur Atlantic corridor.
Information corridor. Transandean railroad. The port as the main figure of regional development.

Vías para la Integración. Acción de la CAF en la infraestructura sostenible de Suramérica.
August, 2000. 99 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: CAF Publications Unit. E-mail: [email protected]
Ways to reach integration. CAF action in South America’s Sustainable Infrastructure.
Transportation, energy and telecomunications  physical integration challenges.
Electric and gas power.

PROCORREDOR. Eixos de desenvolvimento.
Fundacao CENTROLESTE.
Consorcio operacional do corredor de transportes CENTROLESTE.
Corredor Atlántico do Mercosul. September, 2001. 58 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Consórcio Operacional do Corredor de Transportes Centroleste.
E-mail: [email protected]
Amazonas multimodal axis. Atlantic maritime axis. Brasil-Paraguay-Bolivia-Peru-Chile axis.
Argentina-Chile axis. The port as center of regional development. Integrated management in coast zones.
Intermodal and logistic transport networks.

Estudio de Integración Regional en el transporte de carga.
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas de Uruguay.
Instituto de Planificación de Transporte e Infraestructura.
Organization of American States, Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment.
Uruguay, 1999. 191 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Organization of American States, Uruguay.
E-mail: [email protected]
Regional Integration on Load Transportation Research.
How do integration processes affect Uruguayan transportation sector.  Development opportunities for
Mercosur implied sectors. Regional network of transportation infrastructure. Regulations. Automotive
transportation, loads and costs, railroads, river paths, ports.

Diagnóstico del Transporte Internacional y su Infraestructura en América del Sur.
Resumen Ejecutivo.
ALADI, Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración. March, 2001. 29 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: [email protected].
Diagnostic of International Transportation, and its Infrastructure in South America.
Executive Summary.
Population, Region´s GDP, international trade evolution, region transportation (corridors, services supplies).

Diagnóstico del transporte internacional y su infraestructura en América del Sur.
ALADI, Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración. Tomo I.
Land Mode, Road Transportation. March, 2001. 129 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: [email protected]
Diagnostic of International Transportation, and its Infrastructure in South America.
Road transport, Mercosur – Chile.  Recognition of main corridors.

Diagnóstico del transporte internacional y su infraestructura en América del Sur.
ALADI, Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración. Tomo II.
River Mode. March, 2001. 136 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: [email protected]
Diagnostic of International Transportation, and its Infrastructure in South America.
River Transportation in Intraregional and international trade framework.
Plata river-basin (waterways, ports). Orinoco river-basin.

Diagnóstico del transporte internacional y su infraestructura en América del Sur.
ALADI, Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración. Tomo III.
Air and maritime Mode. March, 2001. 133 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: [email protected]
Diagnostic of International Transportation, and its Infrastructure in South America.
Maritime World and South American Trade.
South American Ports and their influence on the Region Maritime Transports.

Plan de acción para la integración de la infraestructura regional en América del Sur.
Montevideo, Uruguay. December, 2000. 10 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: CAF Publications Unit.
E-mail: [email protected]
Plan of Action for the South American Regional Infrastructure Integration and Mechanisms
for its implementation.

Estudio de las variables físicas y económicas que afectan la definición de vulnerabilidad en
sistemas viales. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Transporte.
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales.
Edgardo Masciarelli, Marcelo Zeballos, Pablo Arranz, Fernando Marhuenda.Febrero, 1999. 220 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: [email protected]
Physical and economic variables that affect the vulnerability definition in road systems.  

 

2.    COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

  2.1.    Composite Description

http://www.geology.about.com/library/bl/maps/blsouthamerica.htm
Geology. Seismic Hazard map South America

http://seismo.ethz.ch/gshap/paigh/
Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program
Where earthquakes occur, periodicity , magnitude, etc.

Estudio sobre la  vulnerabilidad del SECTOR AGROPECUARIO a los riesgos naturales.
Gobierno de Ecuador. Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería.
División de Regionalización Agraria. Organización de los Estados Americanos.
Departamento de Desarrollo Regional y Medio Ambiente. February, 1991. 114 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Organization of American States.
Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment. Natural Hazards Project
E-mail: [email protected]
Analysis of Natural Threats to the Agriculture Sector.

Análisis de vulnerabilidad del SECTOR ENERGETICO a las amenazas naturales.
Ministry of Energy and Mining of Ecuador. Enviromental Subsecretary.
General Secretary of the Organization of American States.
Executive Secretary for economic and sociologic issues.
Regional and Environmental Issues Development Secretary. March,1993. 120 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Organization of American States.
Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment. Natural Hazards Project.
E-mail: [email protected]
Analysis of Natural Threats to the Energetic System.

 

2.2.    Commerce

No information sources were found at this time

 

2.3.     Economic Aspects

http://www.wri.org/wri/facts/data-tables-econ.html
Basic economic indicators
Economies size and structure.
Commercial dynamics, investment, debt, etc.

 

2.4.    Energy

No information sources were found at this time

 

2.5.    Environmental Aspects

http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial_nt.html
Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Neotropic Realm
Information about each specific ecoregion including technical description (location, size).
Biodiversity features. Current status. Threats. Ecorregion Justification. References.

http://www.wri.org/trends/freshwat.html
WRI - Decline of Freshwater Ecosystems
Dams and canals threaten freshwater ecosystems. Hydrovia – Gran Pantanal

http://earthtrends.wri.org/conditions_trends/feature_select_action.cfm?theme=2
Earthtrends, the environmental portal
Threats from dams, water withdrawals, pollution, and overfishing.

http://www.wri.org/wri/watersheds/degrade.htm
Factors contributing to watershed degradation

http://www.ramsar.org/about_biodiversity.htm
Wetlands and biological diversity

http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-98-99/pdf/wr98same.pdf
Biodiversity and protected areas

http://earthtrends.wri.org/conditions_trends/feature_select_action.cfm?theme=9
Fragmenting forests: the loss of large frontier forests

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecointal/
Lista de discusión e información en Integración, Comercio Exterior y su dimensión ambiental en América Latina, coordinada por el Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social (CLAES).

http://www.wri.org/pdf/tradenv.pdf
Sustainable Trade Expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean: Analysis and Assessment
Environmental Impact of Trade. Trade pattern variations. Road construction.

Estudio sobre la vulnerabilidad del SECTOR AGROPECUARIO a los riesgos naturales.
Gobierno de Ecuador. Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería. División de Regionalización Agraria.
Organización de los Estados Americanos.
Departamento de Desarrollo Regional y Medio Ambiente. February, 1991. 114 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Organization of American States.
Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment. Natural Hazards Project.
E-mail: [email protected]
Analysis of Natural Threats to the Agriculture Sector.

Análisis de vulnerabilidad del SECTOR ENERGETICO a las amenazas naturales.
Ministry of Energy and Mining of Ecuador. Enviromental Subsecretary.
General Secretary of the Organization of American States.
Executive Secretary for economic and sociologic issues.
Regional and Environmental Issues Development Secretary. March,1993. 120 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Organization of American States.
Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment. Natural Hazards Project.
E-mail: [email protected]
Analysis of Natural Threats to the Energetic System.

http://www.iadb.org/sds/env_e.htm
Environment and Natural Resources
Information about different aspects realated to environment and natural resources including agriculture and rural development, coastal and marine resources, integrated water resources management, and natural disaster management.

http://www.funam.org.ar/englishp.htm
Environment Defense Foundation. Argentina
Grassroot organization working for sustainable development.

 

2.6.    Maps

http://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/ecoregions_map.htm
South American Ecoregions maps

http://www.geology.about.com/library/bl/maps/blsouthamerica.htm
Geology. Seismic Hazard map South America

http://seismo.ethz.ch/gshap/paigh/
Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program

http://www.wri.org/wri/ffi/maps/samerica.htm
Interactive Forest Maps

http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/energy/WorldEnergy/DDS-60/worldmaps.html
Energy resources and their geographical location

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/terrestrial.html
Territorial Ecoregions of the World
Interactive map of ecoregions across the world.
 

2.7.    Natural Hazards

http://www.geology.about.com/library/bl/maps/blsouthamerica.htm
Geology. Seismic Hazard map South America

http://seismo.ethz.ch/gshap/paigh/
Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program
Where earthquakes occur, periodicity, magnitude, etc.

Estudio sobre la  vulnerabilidad del SECTOR AGROPECUARIO a los riesgos naturales.
Gobierno de Ecuador. Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería. División de Regionalización Agraria.
Organización de los Estados Americanos.
Departamento de Desarrollo Regional y Medio Ambiente. February, 1991. 114 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Organization of American States
Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment. Natural Hazards Project.
E-mail: [email protected]
Analysis of Natural Threats to the Agriculture Sector.

Análisis de vulnerabilidad del SECTOR ENERGETICO a las amenazas naturales.
Ministry of Energy and Mining of Ecuador. Enviromental Subsecretary.
General Secretary of the Organization of American States.
Executive Secretary for economic and sociologic issues.
Regional and Environmental Issues Development Secretary. March,1993. 120 pp.
To request a copy, please contact: Organization of American States.
Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment. Natural Hazards Project.
E-mail: [email protected]
Analysis of Natural Threats to the Energetic System.

 

2.8.    Social Aspects

http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-98-99/pdf/wr98same.pdf
South American population and human well-being

   

2.9.    Transportation
No information sources were found at this time
 

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