The Republic of Costa Rica
Author : Gustavo Niederlein
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Costa Rica
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Author : Gustavo Niederlein
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Costa Rica
ISBN :
Author : Joaquín Bernardo Calvo Mora
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Costa Rica
ISBN :
Author : Costa Rica
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Costa Rica
ISBN :
Author : Sterling Evans
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0292789289
With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related agriculture. Drawing on interviews with key players in the conservation movement, as well as archival research, Evans traces the emergence of a conservation ethic among Costa Ricans and the tangible forms it has taken. In Part I, he describes the development of the national park system and "the grand contradiction" that conservation occurred simultaneously with massive deforestation in unprotected areas. In Part II, he examines other aspects of Costa Rica's conservation experience, including the important roles played by environmental education and nongovernmental organizations, campesino and indigenous movements, ecotourism, and the work of the National Biodiversity Institute.
Author : Joaquín Bernardo Calvo
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Costa Rica
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Author : Robert Fletcher
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081654011X
Despite its tiny size and seeming marginality to world affairs, the Central American republic of Costa Rica has long been considered an important site for experimentation in cutting-edge environmental policy. From protected area management to ecotourism to payment for environmental services (PES) and beyond, for the past half-century the country has successfully positioned itself at the forefront of novel trends in environmental governance and sustainable development. Yet the increasingly urgent dilemma of how to achieve equitable economic development in a world of ecosystem decline and climate change presents new challenges, testing Costa Rica’s ability to remain a leader in innovative environmental governance. This book explores these challenges, how Costa Rica is responding to them, and the lessons this holds for current and future trends regarding environmental governance and sustainable development. It provides the first comprehensive assessment of successes and challenges as they play out in a variety of sectors, including agricultural development, biodiversity conservation, water management, resource extraction, and climate change policy. By framing Costa Rica as an “ecolaboratory,” the contributors in this volume examine the lessons learned and offer a path for the future of sustainable development research and policy in Central America and beyond.
Author : F. M.
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Costa Rica
ISBN :
Author : Joaquin B. Calvo
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 1979-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780849029967
Author : Corte de Justicia Centroamericana
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Costa Rica
ISBN :
Author : Costa Rica
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1916
Category :
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