Sector medioambiental en el Per? : marco regulatorio, actores y oportunidades de negocio

A pesar del creciente inter?s que el tema del medio ambiente despierta en el Per?, poco se ha investigado sobre la estructura propia de este sector. Por ello, el objetivo principal de este libro es explorar la estructura del sector medioambiental en el Per? en t?rminos econ?micos, analizando el marco legal que lo regula, estudiando la oferta y demanda medioambiental, para a partir de ah? identificar las principales oportunidades de negocios que se presentan en la actual coyuntura de discusiones y consensos para enfrentar el cambio clim?tico. Se explora, analiza y describe lo que ser? propiamente el mercado medioambiental peruano; c?mo diversas empresas, instituciones y ONG proveen una oferta de servicios que atienden de alguna u otra forma la demanda, desde simples estudios de impacto ambiental hasta complejas consultor?as para la estructuraci?n de bonos de carbono. Ello genera un 'mercado medioambiental' que muestra indicios de crecimiento, por lo cual tambi?n se identifican las principales oportunidades de negocio que surgen, sobre todo a partir de una serie de mecanismos regulatorios que llevan a empresas y organizaciones a invertir recursos en esta materia. La creciente conciencia ambiental por parte de consumidores que ven en el cuidado del medio ambiente un valor intangible diferenciador, as? como las nuevas formas de financiamiento a trav?s de los proyectos MDL y de las tendencias mundiales y locales de responsabilidad social empresarial, contribuyen a generar oportunidades de negocio y plantear una agenda por desarrollar en este nuevo sector econ?mico

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity

Search for Scalar Diphoton Resonances in the Mass Range 65−60065-600 GeV with the ATLAS Detector in pppp Collision Data at s\sqrt{s} = 8 TeVTeV

A search for scalar particles decaying via narrow resonances into two photons in the mass range 65–600 GeV is performed using $20.3\text{}\text{}{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s}=8\text{}\text{}\mathrm{TeV}$ $pp$ collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The recently discovered Higgs boson is treated as a background. No significant evidence for an additional signal is observed. The results are presented as limits at the 95% confidence level on the production cross section of a scalar boson times branching ratio into two photons, in a fiducial volume where the reconstruction efficiency is approximately independent of the event topology. The upper limits set extend over a considerably wider mass range than previous searches