M Quesada, KE Stoner - … conservation in Costa Rica: Learning the …, 2004 - degruyter.com
PPROXIMATELY 550,000 kM2 of tropical dry forest covered the Pacific coast of Mesoamerica at the time that the Spaniards arrived. Today less than 2 percent of this forest …
This study analyses seven factors used to explain the conversion of forest to pasture in Central America between 1979 and 1994: 1) favorable markets for livestock products, 2) …
M Kappelle, G Avertin, ME Juárez, N Zamora - Mountain research and …, 2000 - BioOne
An ethnobotanical survey was carried out among a campesino community in a Costa Rican montane cloud forest. Campesino families were interviewed about how they used …
M Kappelle, ME Juárez - Mountain Research and Development, 1995 - JSTOR
This study focuses on agro-ecological zonation along an altitudinal gradient in the montane oak forest belt of the Los Santos Forest Reserve in Costa Rica. Above 2,000 m three major …
M Kappelle, ME Juárez - Ecological Studies, Vol. 185, 2006 - Springer
A large number of studies on human impact on tropical mountains underline the vast destructive and often irreversible effects that settlements and inappropriate land use …
This article discusses Costa Rica's policies and institutions created by the state to redistribute land during the 1960s and 1970s, when Latin American was implementing …
Abstract In Costa Rica, as in much of the world, sustainable development has become the dominant development paradigm. Sustainable development seeks to reconcile the …
El estilo predominante de agricultura en Centroamerica, la de laderas, encara una crisis creciente como resultado de la deforestacion, la perdida de diversidad biologica, el …
W Picado, EB Rodríguez - Studia historica. Historia contemporánea, 2022 - revistas.usal.es
Este artículo examina las relaciones establecidas entre el campesinado, la política de tierras y de conservación de bosques en Costa Rica entre las décadas de 1960 y 1980. Su …