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Estado del Arte en Cambio Climático, Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria en Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
El cambio climático ha provocado numerosos efectos en el medio rural de Costa Rica; es por esto que el Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería de Costa Rica (MAG) en colaboración con el Programa de Investigación de CGIAR en Cambio Climático, Agricultura y ...
Boa, María   +4 more
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Understanding Family Dynamics in Mixed‐Status Families: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta‐Synthesis

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the United States, mixed‐status families, where at least one member lacks legal immigration status, face persistent challenges related to deportation, which disrupt family stability, influence parental practices and impact children's identity formation.
Maryam Rafieifar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Radiometric Constraints on the Timing, Tempo, and Effects of Large Igneous Province Emplacement

open access: yesGeophysical Monograph Series, Page 27-82., 2021

Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact

An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jennifer Kasbohm   +2 more
wiley  

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Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yesThe ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1916
openaire   +1 more source

Prioritizing bat roosts for conservation with a global multicriteria bat roost priority index based on community science

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Prioritization in conservation is crucial for the development of efficient and effective decision‐making policies. For many decades, the importance of some species and their habitats has been assessed and applied in conservation legislation, but bats and their diurnal roosts have ofbeen overlooked.
David López‐Bosch   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Equity considerations in the proposed wildlife protocol to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wildlife trafficking poses a critical threat to global biodiversity, contributes to organized crime, and has disproportionate impacts on underserved and Indigenous communities. Although international legal instruments, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, and institutional collaborations,
Chad Patrick Osorio
wiley   +1 more source

Calibration of the species threat abatement and restoration metric's threat abatement component in a Costa Rican landscape

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Achieving global conservation policy goals requires the ability to set and measure progress toward science‐based targets for biodiversity. The species threat abatement and restoration (STAR) metric was developed to enable actors to set science‐based targets for species.
Louise Mair   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

A practical, adaptive compliance management framework for improving marine protected area effectiveness

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Noncompliance regularly undermines the effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) worldwide. The reasons for and drivers of noncompliance depend on the context (e.g., insufficient funding, capacity, neocolonialism, historical conflict), but the prevalent solution offered to curtail noncompliance tends to be more or better enforcement.
B. Bergseth   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

A framework for maximizing the benefit from retaining regrowth on private land

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation interventions often have lower‐than‐desired positive impacts, as revealed by retrospective counterfactual‐based evaluations. To address this, a prospective counterfactual‐based approach can be used to estimate potential benefits and design conservation interventions to maximize outcomes. We developed a framework for estimating the
Hannah Thomas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Laws and the Construction of Drug- and Gender-Related Violence [PDF]

open access: yes
In Central America, legislation aiming to reduce violence and crime has become an important topic in the security debate. Focusing on Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, this paper analyzes laws and other legal texts regarding the trade in and ...
Peter Peetz
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