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‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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Catalogue of Costa Rican Hepaticae and Anthocerotae [PDF]

, 2005
This catalogue contains literature reports and new records of Costa Rican Hepaticae and Anthocerotae, proceeding from monographs, revisions, floristic inventories, ecological bryophyte studies and herbarium specimens.
Dauphin, Gregorio
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Description of Flavicapitulum gen. nov. and two new species of Marmoreocelis from thermal habitats in the Americas

Journal of Phycology, EarlyView.
Abstract Three novel taxa in the Coleofasciculales were observed in hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States, and in the Tabaconcito thermal springs on the Rio Tabacón in Costa Rica. Flavicapitulum vaporiphilum gen. et sp. nov. was located in a supported clade with Gracilinea and Marmoreocelis.
Jeffrey R. Johansen, Jan Pokorný, Radka Hauerová, Jan Kaštovský   +3 more
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A new impetus in “geo-literacy” in the national volcanic parks of Costa Rica and surrounding sectors for better risk management

Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, 2023
In Costa Rica, all the large volcanoes have been converted into national parks, which has limited human occupation and productive activities in its closest areas.
Guillermo E. Alvarado, Yemerith Alpízar, Ramón Araya, Lidier Esquivel, Blas Sánchez   +4 more
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Respondent‐Driven Sampling as a Tool for Studying Migrants in Need of International Protection: New Evidence from Costa Rica

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Threat evasion—the need to escape imminent threats to safety and survival—is a major driver of international migration. Demographic research on threat‐evasive migration, however, remains scant, owing to a longstanding dearth of systematic data on migrants in need of international protection (MNP).
Matthew Blanton, Abigail Weitzman, Gilbert Brenes Camacho, Ana Lucía Fernandez Fernandez   +3 more
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Confessional State and Human Rights in Costa Rica

Revista Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos, 2018
This paper develops a historical approach to the topic of the confessional State in Costa Rica within a human rights framework. It analyzes both the context from the moment in which the conquest and colonization started, and the role played by the ...
Idalia Alpízar Jiménez
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How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 5, Page 2081-2102, October 2026.
ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen, Mohamed Khalil Meliane, Zachery B. Holmes, Karl E. Miller, William J. Barichivich, Emilie Dedeban, Alex Furst, Miranda Imeri, Peyton E. Niebanck, Samantha Nunn, Kailee Pearson, Nicole Rita, Brier Ryver, Dakotah Shaffer, Susan C. Walls, E. Hance Ellington   +15 more
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CHILDREN’S USE OF SPANISH TAPS: A NATUR ALISTIC STUDY WITH MONOLINGUAL COSTA RICAN CHILDREN AGES 3;0 TO 5;6 [PDF]

, 2015
This study reports on the trends in children’s use of taps by 15 Costa Rican Spanish-speaking monolingual children between ages 3;0 and 5;6. Data were obtained through audio-recordings of the children’s naturalistic speech, yielding 1080 target-words. 80%
Vásquez Carranza, Luz Marina
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Aporte de la nueva museología española al Museo de los Niños de Costa Rica

Actualidades Investigativas en Educación, 2005
El artículo que se ofrece consiste en una comparación etnográfica sobre propuestas educativas no formales, entre el Museo de los Niños de Costa Rica y seis museos o centros de ciencia españoles ubicados en lo que se conoce como la nueva museología.
Keilyn Rodríguez Sánchez
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Co‐Designing Multimodal, Multilingual Text Sets: Centering Caregiver Choice

The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 2, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Early literacy instruction in the U.S. often centers monolingual, English‐dominant practices that marginalize multilingual learners and their families. This qualitative design‐based research study examines a family literacy initiative that engaged caregivers and teachers as co‐designers of a multilingual, multimodal literacy resource bag ...
Katie M. Crook, Emily Howell, Lindsey W. Rowe, Hazel Vega, C. C. Bates   +4 more
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