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Parcs Nationaux et Développement Rural au Costa Rica: Mythes et Réalités
(1993)
Le Costa Rica jouit d'une réputation mondiale pour sa politique exemplaire de conservation, y ayant consacré plus de 20 % de son territoire national sous forme de parc naturels, réserves biologiques et forestières. Cette ...
Draft Principles and Guidelines for Integrating Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Adaptation in Project and Policy Design: A Discussion Document.
(2011)
Ecosystem-based approaches to reduce social vulnerability are a promising option for sustainable and efficient adaptation to climate change. Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) is part of overall adaptation, and takes into ...
Plant Disease, Pests and Erosion of Biodiversity
(2011)
Biodiversity is the variety of life, in all its forms. It provides the foods and medicines used around the world today, the fibre for clothes, many of the materials for shelter and houses, and a plethora of other goods and ...
L'Economie Cafeiere a San Ignacio, Perou Septentrional: Antecedents Historiques et Consequences Ecologiques et Socio-Economiques
(1986)
This paper examines the implications of cash-cropping among small holder peasant farmers in a pioneer region of northern Peru. Farm level strategies of coffee cultivators are analyzed as adaptations to both a marginal ...
Biodiversity, Agrobiodiversity and Ecosystem Change
(2011)
Biodiversity is the variety of life, in all its forms. It provides the foods and medicines used around the world today, the fiber for clothes, and many of the materials for shelter and houses, and a plethora of other goods ...
The Darien Region between Colombia and Panama: Gap or Seal?
(2002)
The Darien Gap stands, at the dawn of the XXIst Century, as a remainder of the linkages between local and global fenomena. At the crossroads of the Americas, bridge and canal, the Darien Gap remains un forded. A mere 80 ...
Integrating Community and Ecosystem-Based Approaches in Climate Change Adaptation Responses
(2012)
This paper is the result of extensive discussions led by adaptation professionals coming from different backgrounds and facilitated by the Ecosystem and Livelihoods Adaptation Network (ELAN).ii ELAN is an innovative alliance ...
Raíz y Vuelo
(2000)
Promover la conservación y el uso sostenible de los recursos naturales y
de la biodiversidad en Mesoamérica es la razón del trabajo de la Unión Mundial
para la Naturaleza, UICN. Esta es su misión en esta y en otras partes ...
The Río San Juan
The Geopolitics and Ecopolitics of the Río San Juan
(1992)
Situated between two oceans and two countries in Central America, the Rio San Juan is both a transisthmian route and a transborder region. As a corridor between the Caribbean and the Pacific, the river has attracted foreign ...
Crisis del Estado Nacional hacia el siglo XXI. Estudio de las regiones fronterizas de Costa Rica, Nicaragua y Panamá
(1988)
Durante años al margen del interés de los dirigentes políticos, la Frontera Norte ha recibido una atención creciente en los ultimo diez años. Lo que era una frontera agrícola desde mediados del presente siglo, llego a ser ...