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Productive Development Policies in Costa Rica: Market Failures, Government Failures, and Policy Outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper analyzes five Productive Development Policies (PDPs) implemented in Costa Rica, finding that they are not optimally addressing market failures. Moreover, government failures rather than market failures represent the main justification for PDPs.
Monge-Gonzalez, Ricardo   +2 more
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A dead Central American coral reef tract: Possible link with the Little Ice Age [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
Radiocarbon analyses, stable isotopic measurements and extensive field observations were made of coral reefs off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama.
Druffel, Ellen M.   +2 more
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PCB concentrations in sediments from the Gulf of Nicoya estuary, Pacific coast of Costa Rica

open access: yesRevista de Biología Tropical, 2004
Thirty-one sediment samples collected from 1996-2003 from the Gulf of Nicoya estuary on the north- western coast of Costa Rica, have been obtained for PCB analyses.
Alison L Spongberg
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México bajo el agua [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Se aborda el impacto del temporal en México. Se hace un recuento de los ciclones registrados durante el segundo semestre de 2013; se presenta un balance de los daños y subraya una serie de fallas en el sistema de gobierno para responder de manera ...
Valdivia-García, Jorge
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Coastal development and marine ecosystems in Culebra Bay, Guanacaste, Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Bahía Culebra ha experimentado un proceso acelerado de desarrollo costero desde la implementación del proyecto Polo Turístico Golfo de Papagayo. Este trabajo analiza el cambio temporal en el estado de salud sus ecosistemas marino-costeros, a partir de ...
Cortés Núñez, Jorge   +2 more
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Reconstruction of Diadema mexicanum bioerosion impact on three Costa Rican Pacific coral reefs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The 1982-83 El Niño event produced a high coral mortality (50-90%) in several localities in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, which resulted in an outbreak of the sea urchin populations of Diadema mexicanum A.
Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José   +2 more
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CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CORAL COMMUNITIES AND REEFS OF TWO PREVIOUSLY UNDESCRIBED LOCATIONS IN THE UPWELLING REGION OF GULF OF PAPAGAYO (COSTA RICA)

open access: yesRevista Ciencias Marinas y Costeras, 2011
In the seasonal upwelling region of Gulf of Papagayo (Northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica), we evaluated and described two previously poorly known coral habitats, Punta Cacique and Bahía Guacamaya.
Carlos Jiménez   +3 more
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Composición y distribución del mesozooplancton en una zona de afloramiento costero (Bahía Culebra, Costa Rica) durante La Niña 1999 y el 2000

open access: yesRevista de Biología Tropical, 2012
Se estudian los patrones anuales de la composición, abundancia y distribución espacial-temporal de mesozooplancton en la zona de afloramiento de Bahía Culebra, en la costa norte del Pacífico de Costa Rica.
Karina Rodríguez-Sáenz   +1 more
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Metales traza en sedimentos costeros de Costa Rica

open access: yesRevista de Biología Tropical, 2004
Se determinó la concentración de hierro, plomo, cobre y zinc, en sedimentos de cuatro ecosistemas costeros de Costa Rica, por espectroscopia de absorción atómica, con llama o con horno de grafito.
Jairo García-Céspedes   +2 more
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