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Innovation Systems and the Sustainable Development Goals: Directionality, State Roles, and Capabilities for Transformative Change

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, Volume 43, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has intensified debates on whether innovation system (IS) frameworks remain relevant for governing sustainability transformations. This article argues that IS are essential for understanding how directionality toward sustainability emerges through learning, institutional change, and ...
Cristina Chaminade   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new impetus in “geo-literacy” in the national volcanic parks of Costa Rica and surrounding sectors for better risk management

open access: yesRevista 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Carving Caribbean Spaces in Between: The life of Ruth Gourzong in 20th Century Puerto Limon, Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper attempts to make visible the community and their descendants of free Jamaican blacks who immigrated into the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica (specifically Puerto Limon) at the turn of the twentieth century to help build the American owned ...
Gordon-Chipembere, Natasha
core   +1 more source

The Case of the Missing Green Iguana Predators: Reviews of Ecological Literature Should Go Beyond Google Scholar

open access: yesThe Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Volume 107, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Knowing about species interactions is essential for ecological research, conservation efforts, resource management, and maintaining healthy ecosystems, but many of these, such as reports of predation, may not always be published in easily located resources—if they are published at all.
Matthijs P. van den Burg, Hinrich Kaiser
wiley   +1 more source

Confessional State and Human Rights in Costa Rica

open access: yesRevista 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
doaj   +1 more source

Borders Manifest: Racializing the Nicaraguan Refugee in Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
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.
core   +1 more source

Between Emancipation and Domination? A Critical Analysis of Empowerment in a Women‐Only Development Program in Costa Rica's Coffee Sector

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 2427-2442, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Female empowerment and its use in development contexts has histories in coloniality. Gender programs typically imply an individualistic, depoliticized concept. This article examines whether such initiatives can be supportive for empowerment. We apply an embedded qualitative case study of Bean Voyage's program to support female coffee producers
Annelie M. Gütte   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aporte de la nueva museología española al Museo de los Niños de Costa Rica

open access: yesActualidades 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
doaj   +1 more source

Language and Identity: Limonese Creole and the Black Minority of Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Given the general connection between the development of nationalism and linguistic uniformity, the existence of multilingualism and ethnic diversity in a country is a complex problem.
Herzfeld, Anita
core   +1 more source

Global Comparison of Aqueous Geochemistry and Dissolved H2/CH4 in Continental Low Temperature Serpentinization–Influenced Environments

open access: yesHydrological Processes, Volume 40, Issue 3, March 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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