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Geomorphology, land use, and environmental impacts in a densely populated urban catchment of Costa Rica
(2021)
The Torres River is one of the most urbanized catchments in Costa Rica, with only 46.67 km2 and approximately 50% of its area have urban land uses comprising nearly 13% of the national population. The quick rural-urban ...
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 ...
A Powerful Geography Approach to the Curricular Transformation of the Undergraduate Geography Program at the Universidad de Costa Rica
(2019)
The school of geography at the Universidad de Costa Rica started in 2015 a revision of the undergraduate geography program, ending in 2018 with the approval of a new and renewed curriculum. This process involved a “bottom-up” ...
Reflexiones teórico-conceptuales sobre el binario Agencia-Estructura desde la Geografía Ambiental
Conceptual and theoretical reflections on the agency-structure binary from a humanenvironment geography perspective
(2021-06)
El debate sobre la primacía que tienen la agencia y estructura en determinar las acciones humanas y la conformación de las sociedades ha prevalecido durante siglos en las ciencias sociales en general y en la geografía en ...
Flood Hazard Index Application in Arid Catchments: Case of the TaguenitWadi Watershed, Lakhssas, Morocco
(2022)
During the last decade, climate change has generated extreme rainfall events triggering flash
floods in short periods worldwide. The delimitation of flood zones by detailed mapping generally
makes it possible to avoid ...
Modeling the retreat of the Aneto Glacier (Spanish Pyrenees) since the Little Ice Age, and its accelerated shrinkage over recent decades
(2021-04-21)
The Aneto, located on the Maladeta Massif (Central Pyrenees), is the largest glacier of the Pyrenees. The glacier is 675m long, occupies an area of 48.64 ha and has a maximum altitude of 3269m. In this study, we present a ...
Reconquista urbana en America Central: Acciones del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en la producción urbano-territorial en Costa Rica y Panamá
(2020-06)
En Latinoamérica los gobiernos locales, los organismos internacionales y los inversores tienen un creciente interés en la intervención y la transformación de las áreas centrales de las ciudades. En este artículo se exploran ...
Pasado, presente y futuro del clima en el Parque Nacional Chirripó, Costa Rica
Past, present, and future of the climate in Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica
(2022)
Introducción: El Parque Nacional Chirripó ha
tenido cambios climáticos definidos por su ubicación y por
características geológicas, geomorfológicas, ecológicas y
edáficas. Objetivo: Identificar los factores que han
modulado ...
Review of the geomorphological effects of the 1991 Limón earthquake
(2021-01-02)
The Limón earthquake was one of the biggest disasters ever recorded in Costa Rica and Panama. This event had a magnitude of 7.7 Mw, occurred on April 22 of 1991 and had its epicenter at the coordinates 9.685 N and -83.073 ...
Hydrometeorological disasters in urban areas of Costa Rica, Central America
(2020)
Tropical countries are subjected to natural disasters which cause
substantial human and economic losses. Coping with disasters in
tropics requires to improve our understanding of the frequency
and distribution of ...