Geomorphological regional mapping for environmental planning in developing countries
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Quesada Román, Adolfo
Umaña Ortíz, Jose
Zumbado Solano, Mariana
Islam, Aznarul
Abioui, Mohamed
Zangmo Tefogoum, Ghislain
Kariminejad, Narges
Mutaqin, Bachtiar W.
Pupim, Fabiano do Nascimento
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Developing countries usually lack environmental baseline information for territorial decisionmaking.
Geomorphological maps constitute valuable tools for natural resource management
due to the landforms permanence and dynamics creating interactions between biotic, abiotic, and
anthropic unique characteristics worldwide. In this paper, we present an updated method to
perform geomorphological regional units applied for developing countries. This region is highly
populated and face particular and more challenging development issues. We used the Southern
Pacific, or the Brunca region of Costa Rica, as a study site to apply the geomorphological regional
unit approach. Our results show that this territory presents mountainous, volcanic, fluvial, and
coastal landforms with a vast variety of soils, life zones, protected areas, and land uses in a
culturally rich region. Moreover, we discuss and make proposals for land use planning implications,
disaster risk conditions, and the ecological and tourism prospects of the region. This
approach can be widely used in developing countries throughout the world for their territorial
environmental assessment.
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geomorphological mapping, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, territorial decision-making, RESOURCES MANAGEMENT