Download or read book The Mammals of Costa Rica written by Mark Wainwright and published by Comstock Publishing Associates. This book was released on 2007 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published 2002 as The natural history of Costa Rican mammals by Zona Tropical"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book The Ecolaboratory written by Robert Fletcher and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its tiny size and seeming marginality to world affairs, the Central American republic of Costa Rica has long been considered an important site for experimentation in cutting-edge environmental policy. From protected area management to ecotourism to payment for environmental services (PES) and beyond, for the past half-century the country has successfully positioned itself at the forefront of novel trends in environmental governance and sustainable development. Yet the increasingly urgent dilemma of how to achieve equitable economic development in a world of ecosystem decline and climate change presents new challenges, testing Costa Rica’s ability to remain a leader in innovative environmental governance. This book explores these challenges, how Costa Rica is responding to them, and the lessons this holds for current and future trends regarding environmental governance and sustainable development. It provides the first comprehensive assessment of successes and challenges as they play out in a variety of sectors, including agricultural development, biodiversity conservation, water management, resource extraction, and climate change policy. By framing Costa Rica as an “ecolaboratory,” the contributors in this volume examine the lessons learned and offer a path for the future of sustainable development research and policy in Central America and beyond.
Download or read book Exploring Costa Rica 2007 written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tropical Plants of Costa Rica written by Willow Zuchowski and published by Comstock Publishing Associates. This book was released on 2022 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This second edition is in a smaller format than the first, with additional photos and a new section on the Osa Peninsula. More than 800 photographs, taken in the field, show entire plants and closer views of flowers, fruits, and seeds. Pen-and-ink drawings depict botanical details. The text covers identifying characteristics, natural history, chemical properties, economic importance, medicinal uses, conservation, ethnobotany, and ecology"--
Download or read book Butterfiles and moths of Costa Rica order Lepidoptera written by Isidro Chacón and published by Editorial INBio. This book was released on 2007 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica written by Carlos Sandoval-García and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-12-27 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica is a major contribution to scholarship on Central American immigration by the sheer number of topics it covers by an internationally recognized team of scholars from several disciplines.
Download or read book Frommer s Costa Rica 2007 written by Eliot Greenspan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Costa Rica ABCs written by Sharon Katz Cooper and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coffee and brightly painted oxcarts. Quetzals, coastlines, and the Montverde Cloud Forest Reserve. Learn the ABCs of Costa Rica in this exotic, colorful tour of the small but treasure-filled Central American country.
Download or read book Costa Rica written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2010 staff report for the Third and Final Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) reviews the economic performance of Costa Rica. The structural benchmarks related to the deposit insurance and bank resolution framework were delayed owing to a longer-than-expected consultation process. The gains in lowering inflation should be consolidated, including through the adoption of an inflation targeting framework to bolster policy credibility. IMF support helped to maintain confidence in the consistency of policies and the strength of financial buffers.
Download or read book Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica written by Karen Stocker and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the consequences—positive, negative, and otherwise—of tourism in Costa Rica. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with tourists, tour operators, tourists-turned-settlers, and locals living in tourist destinations, this book brings together these varied perspectives with the aim of presenting forms of tourism beneficial to all parties. To examine both pitfalls and positive outcomes of tourism, it compares modes of tourism in destinations that are locally owned and foreign owned, ecotourism destinations, beach tourism, adventure tourism sites, and agrotourism projects. Furthermore, the author draws from two decades of research in two distinct communities to trace the ways in which the development of tourism in one community provided the springboard for changing gender roles and new opportunities for women, and, in the other, how the promise of tourism has spurred a cultural revitalization and positive change in Indigenous identity. Interviews with three generations of women in one tourist destination show generational changes in perspectives on tourism, and interviews covering the same time span show how in an Indigenous reservation poised to enter the heritage tourism industry, tourism offers a positive alternative to exploitative forms of labor and the stigma once associated with Indigeneity in that region. Interviews with locals in all four sites reveal the ways in which tourism carried out conscientiously would benefit them. These, juxtaposed with interviews of tourists regarding what they seek through tourism, offer a means of designing a mutually beneficial form of tourism. In sum, this book puts into conversation the varied views of those positioned differently within the realm of tourism in order to inform tourists and foreign land owners as to how they might glean the advantages that such an experience may bring to the traveler, while also playing up the benefits of these endeavors to local communities, and minimizing the potential damage these practices may cause.
Download or read book Costa Rica Five Years after CAFTA DR written by Friederike (Fritzi) Koehler-Geib and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The benefits of regional trade agreements can be important factors in the economic development of a country. This study looks at the impact of the Central America Free Trade Agreement - Dominican Republic on the Costa Rican economy overall and some key manufacturing and service sectors, finding positive results.
Download or read book The History of Costa Rica written by Iván Molina Jiménez and published by Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book D B Country RiskLine Report written by D. & B. Country Risk Services and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Costa Rica written by Meg Tyler Mitchell Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a fascinating guide to one of Latin America's most stable and progressive nations, examining the country's development, unique features, and the challenges Costa Ricans face in the 21st century. Costa Rica: A Global Studies Handbook offers readers an authoritative tour of a remarkable country, tracing its historical development from pre-Colombian inhabitants and Spanish colonization through rising prosperity in the mid-19th century to current struggles to define itself economically and politically. Costa Rica combines narrative chapters on the nation's history and the current state of its political, social, and cultural institutions with alphabetically organized entries covering important people, places, and events in its development. Throughout, the authors, drawing on extensive research and their own experiences, highlight the many ways Costa Rica is different from its neighbors, as well as the challenges the country faces in the 21st century's globalized world.
Download or read book Costa Rica 2007 Article IV Consultation Staff Report Staff Supplement Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion and Statement by the Executive Director for Costa Rica written by International Monetary Fund and published by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Costa Rican economy has grown at rapid rates in the last three years, underpinned by a robust world expansion, sound economic policies, and strong business and consumer confidence. Economic policies have been well oriented. The fiscal position has substantially improved. The exchange rate level and policies are consistent with the maintenance of external stability. IMF staff supports the neutral policy stance envisaged in the 2008 central government budget and plans for a substantive tax reform. The authorities should push ahead with financial system reforms.
Download or read book The Birds of Costa Rica written by Richard Garrigues and published by Comstock Publishing Associates. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, updated edition of the only compact, portable, and user-friendly field guide the novice or experienced birder needs to identify birds in the field in the diverse habitats found in Costa Rica. -- "Biology Digest"
Download or read book D B Country RiskLine Report written by D. & B. Country Risk Services and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
