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Latin American and Caribbean Forests in the 2020s: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
(Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, San José (Costa Rica), 2020-05)
Forests are among Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC’s) crown jewels. The region boasts roughly a third of the world’s forests, half of its tropical forests, and a quarter of its mangroves (Blackman et al. 2014). This ...
Economic valuation of the ecosystem services provided by the mangroves of the Gulf of Nicoya using a hybrid methodology.
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2021)
Due to the public good nature of many of mangrove’s ecosystem services, markets for them do not exist and there is limited potential to manage them with conventional markets. Moreover, because of the difficulties in ...
Incorporación del Capital Natural y la Biodiversidad en la Planificación y Toma de Decisiones. Casos de América Latina y el Caribe
(Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, San José (Costa Rica), 2020-01)
La región de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) goza de una riqueza natural exuberante; con el 16 por ciento de la tierra del planeta, la región alberga el 40 por ciento de la diversidad biológica del mundo. Este informe ...
Siting Marine Protected Areas with Area Targets Protecting Rural Incomes, Fish Stocks, and Turtles in Costa Rica
(2020-04)
With many countries seeking to increase the area conserved in marine protected areas (MPAs) to achieve the Convention on Biodiversity’s protected area targets by 2020, we employ a bioeconomic model to determine which ...
Applying conservation social science to study the human dimensions of Neotropical bird conservation
(2020)
As the global human population increases, and many bird populations in the Neotropics and the rest of the world continue to decline, the study of the intersection of humans, birds, and conservation has become more relevant ...
Biodiversidad en la ciudad: Conectando los espacios verdes.
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2021-01)