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Exportación de pajillas biodegradables a Costa Rica
… esta problemática de carácter mundial, destaca Costa Rica quien, en el Índice de Desempeño Ambiental de 2018, figura primer puesto en Latinoamérica y número 30 a nivel mundial (Environmental Performance Index, 2018). El gobierno de Costa Rica lanzó la Estrategia Nacional para la Sustitución de …
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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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Uma aborgagem biogeográfica dos cetáceos da costa brasileira
Cetaceans habitats along the Brazilian coast are described according to environmental features in six different areas: Natal-Costinha (5-7ºS), Recife-Salvador (7-l0ºS), Abrolhos Banks (l 7º30'S-18º20'S), Campos Basin (22º-24ºS), Santos Basin (24º-26ºS) and Pelotas Basin (28º-30ºS). The cetacean …
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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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La Costa Residences: A Tower by the Shore
This thesis choreographs the procession around and within a tower. An alternating sequence of compression and expansion of space creates a rich spatial experience. Each moment along the sequence is meant to complement or contrast the others, exaggerating their effect. The tower's form is designed …
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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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Stakeholder participation in regional tourism planning: Brazil's Costa Dourada project.
… in tourism planning based on a case study of the Costa Dourada project, a regional tourism initiative involving ten very poor municipalities in Alagoas State in north-east Brazil. The project sought to combine regular collaborative planning meetings involving a range of key stakeholders with …
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Numerische Simulation der Kohlenwasserstoffgenese an der Subduktionszone vor Costa Rica
… different heat flow histories. In an area off Costa Rica which was studied by 3D-seismic investigations (3D box) bottom simulating reflectors (BSRs) were found. These BSRs are an indicator for gas hydrates but they show a small-scale patchy distribution in the 3D box. Pressure and temperature …
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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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