Evaluating watershed health in Costa Rican national parks and protected areas

TJ Jovanelly, L Rodríguez-Montero… - Sustainable Water …, 2020 - Springer
Although the biodiversity of Costa Rican national parks, forests, and wetlands has been
extensively surveyed, there has not been a watershed assessment that reflects their …

Climate and water conflicts coevolution from tropical development and hydro‐climatic perspectives: A case study of Costa Rica

G Esquivel‐Hernández… - JAWRA Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Costa Rica is a nation with a vast wealth of water resources; however, recently the country
has faced water conflicts (WC) due to social, economic, legal, and political impediments in …

Sustainability of Costa Rica's water supply under climate change scenarios

KD Stan, A Sanchez-Azofeifa, R Ludwig - Environmental Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Water scarcity and the difference between water supply and consumption is an increasing
concern particularly under climatic uncertainty. Costa Rica has historically been at the …

Groundwater governance in the anthropocene: a close look at Costa Rica

G Cuadrado-Quesada, C Holley, J Gupta - Water Policy, 2018 - iwaponline.com
The Anthropocene is an era in which humans have become the primary driver of planetary
systems, not least the global hydrological cycle. This is posing significant challenges for …

[HTML][HTML] Gobernanza de aguas subterráneas, conflictos socioambientales y alternativas: experiencias de Costa Rica

G Cuadrado Quesada - Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, 2017 - scielo.sa.cr
Este artículo explora los retos de la gobernanza de las aguas subterráneas en Costa Rica y
cómo estos tienden a ocasionar conflictos socioambientales. Además, ilustra dichos retos a …

Determining rainfall erosivity in Costa Rica: A practical approach

JC Calvo-Alvarado, CD Jiménez-Rodríguez… - Mountain Research and …, 2014 - BioOne
Rainfall erosivity (R-factor) is an important variable used in soil erosion estimation models.
In Costa Rica, the R-factor was computed for 106 stations across the country by Wilhelm …

Análisis del cambio de cobertura forestal 2005-2015 en Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

CA Tapia-Arenas - 2016 - repositoriotec.tec.ac.cr
Costa Rica experimentó una acelerada deforestación entre las décadas de los 60 sy 70s,
pero posteriormente impulsó una serie de medidas de conservación para revertir ese …

Resilience of a Complex Watershed under Water Variability: A Modeling Study

K Vazquez, R Muneepeerakul - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Understanding how socio-ecological systems respond to environmental variability is an
important step in promoting system resilience. In this paper, we asked: How do the …

Modeling resilience and sustainability of water-subsidized systems: An example from northwest Costa Rica

K Vazquez, R Muneepeerakul - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Water-subsidized systems are growing in number and maintaining the sustainability of such
complex systems presents unique challenges. Interbasin water transfer creates new …

Influence of context-specific cognitions and values on pro-environmental land management in the Rio Savegre Watershed, Costa Rica

E Espinoza-Cisneros - Journal of Latin American Geography, 2020 - JSTOR
Unsustainable land use practices pose significant global environmental challenges. While
land use decision-making has been widely examined in research through diverse analytical …