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Conceptual diagram of hydrological and geochemical processes within the Santa Elena Ophiolite, Costa Rica. It highlights watershed cross‐sections, soil genesis, hyperalkaline Type II waters (pH > 11.6) with calcite crust and trapped H2/CH4 gases, seepage into surface waters, storm‐impacted stream profiles, weathered vs.
Alexandra May +8 more
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Environmental Education in Costa Rica: Building a Framework for Sustainable Development? [PDF]
Environmental education is commonly claimed to be at the centre of efforts to achieve sustainable development. Since the 1980s, Costa Rica has been one of the acknowledged leaders in efforts to promote environmental learning, and national policy includes
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"Ser apolítico es como ser nonato, difunto u orate". Emilia prieto y su noción de política
En este artículo se realiza un breve recorrido por algunos de los ensayos publicados en la primera mitad del siglo XX por Emilia Prieto Tugores en las siguientes revistas culturales y publicaciones periódicas costarricenses: Repertorio Americano, Diario ...
Ruth Cubillo Paniagua
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
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Borders Manifest: Racializing the Nicaraguan Refugee in Costa Rica [PDF]
I look to border responses of North American countries as refugees and migrants move across them to argue that border responses racialize the foreign other in receiving countries.
Twidwell, Theodore B.
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Sinopsis en inglés y en francés de la obra de Carmen Naranjo
Este trabajo forma parte de una investigación titulada Carmen Naranjo: una metáfora viviente, la cual comprende un apartado sobre la obra publicada de la costarricense Carmen Naranjo (1931) en tres idiomas -español, inglés y francés-, con el fin de que ...
Virginia Borloz Soto
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Influences of Structural and Species Diversity on Forest Resistance to Drought
Forest structural richness and species evenness respectively show positive and negative relationships with forest resistance to drought. These relationships between richness and resistance and between evenness and resistance become stronger under more severe droughts.
Erin T. H. Crockett +11 more
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Undergraduate Education Abroad in Community Settings: Pedagogical Opportunities for Librarians [PDF]
As undergraduate possibilities for study and service abroad increase and develop strategically to address local community needs in settings in the Global South, there is greater opportunity for academic librarians to contribute expertise in supporting ...
Kutner, Laurie
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Anaemic Streams: Iron and Essential Trace Metals Frequently Limit Primary Producer Biomass
Nutrient enrichment experiments in 41 streams across the eastern United States demonstrate that trace metals can limit the growth of primary producers. Trace metals are frequently co‐limiting with macronutrients and the availability of N and P in streams and watersheds are predictive of Fe and Zn limitation status.
David M. Costello +10 more
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