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Contribution of agricultural land uses to bird conservation: a case study of ecosystem service provisioning
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2016)
Understanding the contribution of agricultural land uses to biodiversity conservation is of utmost importance. With 38% of earth’s ice free land surface covered by crops and pastures, studying and understanding the potential ...
Multidisciplinary approach to support the design of a local policy of payment for hydrological ecosystem services, in a microwatershed located in northern Veracruz, México
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2009)
With the target to understand the complexity involved in the design of PHES policies, this thesis developed a methodology to generate basic information that will be used in the construction of local PHES policy. The ...
Effects of tropical forest fragmentation on ecology and conservation of migrant and resident birds in lowland Costa Rica
(University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2007)
The overall objetive of my research was to understand the value of forest fragments to a diverse group of rainforest birds that depend on lowland tropical rainforest for their survival at one part or all of their annual ...
Land use, hydrological processes and ecosystem services in the upper Reventazón watershed, Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2012)
Costa Rica experienced large scale deforestation between the 1940s and 1980s. Due to the rapid loss of forest, the Costa Rican government initiated the Pagos para Servicios Ambientales, or Environmental Service Payments ...
Birds, dung beetles and trees in a fragmented landscape of Cañas, Guanacaste: relationships between tree cover and biodiversity
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2001)
La agricultura ha alterado la cubierta de vegetación natural y ha fragmentado el corredor centroamericano. Aproximadamente el 63 por ciento del total de tierras de América Central está dedicado a actividades intensivas de ...
Estimating protected area revenue in Antigua and Barbuda: an evaluation of the CVM for land use planning in a developing country
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 1997)
A contingent valuation method (CVM) survey was administered to two groups of foreign visitors and two groups of local residents, representing both actual and potential visitors to the proposed Wallings Forest National Park ...
The Neguev revisited: a study of the agricultural changes between 1987 and 1996 in the Neguev settlement, Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1997)
The main focus of REPOSA is "development of an interdisciplinary methodology for the analysis and evaluation of ecologically and economically sustainable land use" (Jansen et al., 1996:1). The research is based on a ...
Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica: conservation and production decisions within the San Juan - La Selva Biological Corridor
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba (Costa Rica) University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (EUA), 2007)
This dissertation develops a model linking social and ecological theories to explain this interaction. This model is applied to Costa Rica’s program of payments for environmental service (PES) as a case example. The model ...
Effects of forest clearing and land use on soil properties of two land use sequences in Cocori, Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1988)
This report describes the results of a study of the impact of forest clearing and land use on morphological, chemical and physical properties of the soil. Soil profile site studies were done in the Cocori area in the ...
Exploring the political economy of everyday life on the Costa Rican frontier from agrarian reform to the pineapple boom
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2014)
The focus of this dissertation is to understand the process and implications of capitalistincorporation and agrarian change in the frontier region of Northern Costa Rica within the San Juan-La Selva Biological Corridor. ...