Water factories of the high Colombian mountains: Páramo as 'infrastructural nature

Páramo is a term imported from Spain to the northern Andes to refer to uninhabited, barren, mountainous areas. This notion has, in more recent times, acquired new meanings. Today, the páramo is known as a high mountain tropical ecosystem of strategic importance to carbon storage, water provision,...

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Main Authors: Santiago Martínez Medina, Hanne Cottyn, Ana María Garrido, Joshua Kirshner, Rory O’Bryen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Water Alternatives Association 2024-02-01
Series:Water Alternatives
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Online Access:https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol17/v17issue1/741-a17-1-8/file