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SETTING AT THE UNIVERSITY
The University of Miami is an ideal place for PRENDE. The experience of the faculty and their willingness to collaborate across disciplines and academic units is quite unique. The location of the University in semi-tropical South Florida provides the environmental problems unknown in the rest of the U.S., but which are quite typical in Latin America:
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agriculture adjacent to the cities;
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competition
between city, farming, and nature for land;
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livestock
and sugar operations upstream from sensitive natural area;
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extensive
mangroves and freshwater wetlands which are
critically and negativelyaffected by surrounding development; |
loss
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the
proximity of the Everglades and its vast wetland system as a case
study of the conflict of a dynamic economy and a fragile ecosystem;
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the
conflicts between native American tribes and the water management
authorities;
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levels
of poverty, unequal distributions of income, and migrant housing
conditions more characteristic of Latin America and the Caribbean
than any major area within the United States
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