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Forest Cover and Dengue in Costa Rica: Panel Data Analysis of the Effects of Forest Cover Change on Hospital Admissions and Outbreaks
(Springer Nature Link, 2024-03-14)Approximately 3.9 billion people are at risk of infection with dengue fever, a group of viruses transmitted by mosquitoes (Halstead in Annu Rev Entomol 53:273–291, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ento.53.103106.0933262008; ... -
On the perils of environmentally friendly alternatives
(Elsevier, 2024-03-06)Environmentally friendly alternatives (EFA) are touted as a key component of a transition towards lowering the impact of human activity on the environment. Still, the environmental costs of these technologies are seldom ... -
Landscape connectivity in extensive livestock farming: an adaptive approach to the land sharing and land sparing dilemma
(2024-05-08)This study investigates the “land sharing” versus “land sparing” dilemma in the context of extensive cattle ranching in Chiapas, Mexico. Employing a comprehensive methodology that synthesizes various systems and uses a ... -
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture
(2024-04-04)Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to keeping the world ... -
Institutional arrangements in the promotion of sustainable livestock: an approach from the case of beef and dairy cattle production chains in Jalisco, Chiapas, and Campeche
(Frontiers, 2024-04-04)This study focuses on a policy and practice review of existing institutional arrangements within the beef and dairy cattle production sectors in the Mexican states of Jalisco, Chiapas, and Campeche. Acknowledging the ... -
Importance of measured transpiration fluxes for modelled ecohydrological partitioning in a tropical agroforestry system
(Elsevier, 2023-12-23)Evaporation (E) and transpiration (Tr) are the key terrestrial water fluxes to the atmosphere and are highly sensitive to land cover change. These ecohydrological fluxes can be measured directly only at small scales, such ... -
Group-based and citizen science on-farm variety selection approaches for bean growers in Central America
(Wiley, 2024-02-08)Participatory approaches for crop variety testing can help breeding teams to incorporate traditional knowledge and consider site-specific sociocultural complexities. However, traditional participatory approaches have ... -
An assessment of the shade and ground cover influence on the mitigation of water‑driven soil erosion in a coffee agroforestry system
(2024-04-08)Coffee cultivation under agroforestry systems is one of the main agricultural activities in Central America, but climate change is putting its sustainability at risk. Rainfall erosivity has worsened, thus driving soil ... -
Evolution of Approaches on Water Resources Management and Integrated Watershed Management Planning: Complement, Synergies, and the Way Forward
Several approaches were used since the beginning of times to do water management. Relatively recent is the integrated water resources management (IWRM) proposed as an intent to bring a standard approach which is currently ... -
Rural Technologies and Practices in Ancient Peru
(Springer Nature, 2025-02)This chapter will address two of the most representative technolog-ical works related to water management in Peru. The Cumbemayo Canal and the AMUNAS. The first one is a pre-Columbian hydraulic work located in the trop-ical ...
