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Showing 1 to 20 of 222 for “"Costa Rica"”.
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Exportación de pajillas biodegradables a Costa Rica
… Asimismo, según Science Advances, asociación americana que publica avances científicos, el 76% de la producción de plástico ya se ha convertido en basura (National Geographic, 2017) y el tiempo de descomposición del plástico demora entre 50 a 500 años (GreenPeace España, 2017). Dentro de los …
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Historia del patrimonio marítimo de Costa Rica
… del patrimonio cultural marítimo existente en Costa Rica. A través del análisis documental, de entrevistas personalizadas y del registro empírico (con el desarrollo de técnicas arqueológicas terrestres y subacuáticas no intrusivas) este trabajo de doctorado ha intentado establecer una visión …
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COSTA RICA: A PEACEFUL NATION READY TO FIGHT
… this thesis is to assess how a small nation like Costa Rica, which is committed to peace and lacks a military, is able to safeguard national security and territorial sovereignty while responding to a series of hostile external disputes with neighboring Nicaragua. It examines how Costa Rica’s …
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Destination Resource Management: Integrating Ecotourism in Costa Rica
Due to its natural resource richness, Costa Rica has become one of the key ecotourism destinations in the world. However, the social, economic and environmental impacts of ecotourism have resulted in over-crowding, degradation of precious resources for both locals and wildlife. This dissertation is …
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Sustainable Development in Costa Rica: A Moral Geography
… development has been uncritically adopted in Costa Rica and elsewhere as a desirable ideal informing development practice. Nevertheless, critical voices outside the development establishment have questioned the efficacy of the concept to guide social change and productive practices in …
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Group VIII <em>Spiroplasma</em> of Costa Rica
… Group VIII spiroplasmas isolated from tropical Costa Rican tabanids (Diptera: Tabanidae) and to compare them to the temperate North American Group VIII spiroplasmas. A secondary goal was to evaluate both the temperate and tropical Group VIII strains by sequencing the 16S-23S rRNA intergenic …
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Urban municipal solid waste management in Costa Rica
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.
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Leisure Meanings in a Rural Community of Costa Rica
… to a group of people in a rural community of Costa Rica was explored using cultural consensus and phenomenological methods of analyses. The denotative and connotative meanings of leisure were studied as they pertained to twelve research participants characterized as adults, adolescents, males, …
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Advancement of waste management strategies in developing nations (Costa Rica).
… from the cities of San Pablo and San Isidro in Costa Rica at the Las Joyas dumpsite. Volume based sampling was found to be a reasonable approach where truck weigh scales, common in many developed nations, are absent. A waste management strategy emphasizing public awareness, increased source …
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Socio-economic differentials associated with leadership in Turrialba, Costa Rica
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, 1952
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A mechanized corn project in Costa Rica : a case analysis
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Agricultural Economics, 1974
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Space, Activities and Gender- Everyday Life in Lindora, Costa Rica
… in the ourskirts of the capital San José in Costa Rica. The research uses an everyday life perspective and shows how gender organization leads to a division of labour and a use of space that differentiate between women and men's activities. There are space use patterns that reflect the …
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The Commodification of Nature: Power/Knowledge and REDD+ in Costa Rica
… In this project, I explore REDD+ activity in Costa Rica, drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality. Costa Rica became a participant in the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility in July of 2008. Since then, indigenous peoples throughout the country have contested the program. This …
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Siderophore production by heterotrophic bacterial isolates from the Costa Rica Upwelling Dome
… bacteria is available. On a cruise through the Costa Rica Dome (CRD) upwelling region in July 2005, a library of 867 isolates from five depth profiles inside and outside of the dome was obtained and screened for siderophore production using the Chrome Azurol-S (CAS) assay. Phylogenetic …
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Back from Costa Rica: A Perspective on Migration from Nicaraguan Sending Communities
<p>This thesis explores Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica as part of a basic employment strategy used by Nicaraguans from poor households to reduce the amount of dependent unemployed members at home and add income, be it small or sporadic, in the form of remittances. Migration to Costa Rica might …
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Ecology of the Tropical Freshwater Turtle Rhinoclemmy's Funerea in Caribbean Costa Rica
… of this species were conducted at Tortuguero, Costa Rica from 1990 to 1992. Adult R. funerea were the dominant aquatic turtle and occupied lotic habitats ranging from clearcut areas with abundant aquatic vegetation to primary rainforest devoid of aquatic vegetation, while juveniles were …
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Transient domain electromagnetic (TDEM) investigations in the Miravalles volcanic area (Costa Rica)
Includes bibliographical references.
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