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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou +1 more
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Actualidades Investigativas en Educación, 2010 Costa Rica se ha convertido en un país multicultural. Muchas personas han migrado a él en busca de mejores condiciones de vida. La mayoría de estas personas son nicaragüenses, quienes conforman alrededor de tres cuartas partes del grupo total inmigrante
Carmen Salazar Salas
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Multi-hazard risk assessment using GIS in urban areas: a case study for the city of Turrialba, Costa Rica [PDF]
, 2002 In the framework of the UNESCO sponsored project on “Capacity Building for Natural Disaster Reduction” a case study was carried out on multi-hazard risk assessment of the city of Turrialba, located in the central part of Costa Rica.
Badilla Coto, Elena +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how income inequality and financial globalization shape sustainable industrialization across 87 countries over 2000–2022, using the SDG 9 composite index as the outcome and the Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) to capture heterogeneous effects.
Özge Kozal, Daniel Balsalobre‐Lorente
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The genera of Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Costa Rica
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2004 Keys in Spanish and English are given for the genera of Chrysomelinae known from Costa Rica. For each genus, a list of species compiled from collections in the University of Costa Rica, the National Biodiversity Institute, and the entomological ...
R. Wills Flowers
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Quantitative analysis of teacher evaluation performance at University of Costa Rica
, 2021 This article analyzes evaluations of teaching performance carried out in the second school period of 2018, by the Center of Academic Evaluation (CEA) of University of Costa Rica (UCR) in order to provide information on the implementation of strategies for the continuous improvement of teaching performance using a quantitative approach with a ...
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Climate Vulnerability and Renewable Energy Consumption: The Moderating Role of Financial Development
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between climate vulnerability (CVUL) and renewable energy consumption (RECO) and tests the moderating effect of financial development (FD) on this relationship. The analysis is, particularly, relevant for the 162 panel countries observed between 1995 and 2022, which face diverse climate risks and exhibit ...
Sorin Gabriel Anton
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Creación de bases de datos de exposición a agentes ambientales en Centroamérica. [PDF]
, 2006 Proyecto de Investigación. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Escuela de Ingeniería en Seguridad Laboral e Higiene Ambiental, 2006For many years the priorities in the field of health and safety in the workplace focused on accident prevention and ...
Chaves-Arce, Jorge
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is a major contradiction between the current model of international elite sport and efforts to mitigate climate change. This study investigates climate action delay discourses within the sports sector by analyzing 28 semi‐structured interviews with athletes and sports federation employees.
Pascal Stegmann, Manuel Suter
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Hepaticae of Cerro Venamo, Venezuela, collected by J. Steyermark [PDF]
, 2002 A revision of herbarium material (NY) from Cerro Venamo, Venezuela (5°59’ N, 61°23’ W, 1890 m) yielded 77 hepatic species in 44 genera and 13 families. Most species have a neotropical distribution (75,32%), 6,49%, are pantropical and 9,09% are reported ...
Borges, Anna Luiza Ilkiu +1 more
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