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Effects of forest clearing and land use on soil properties of two land use sequences in Cocori, Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1988)
This report describes the results of a study of the impact of forest clearing and land use on morphological, chemical and physical properties of the soil. Soil profile site studies were done in the Cocori area in the ...
Inequality and the Biosphere
(2018)
Rising inequalities and accelerating global environmental change pose two of the most pressing challenges of the twenty-first century. To explore how these phenomena are linked, we apply a social ecological systems perspective ...
Desarrollo de un modelo de simulación participativa con productores para estudiar la siembra de árboles en fincas en la zona de Catacamas, Honduras
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2021-01)
El presente estudio se realizó en Catacamas-Olancho, Honduras y se enfoca en caracterizar la toma de decisión de los productores sobre el componente árbol en sus fincas ganaderas e identificar las posibles causas de la ...
Deforestation impacts of environmental services payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program 200-2005
(Environment for Development, 2008)
Costa Rica’s environmental services payments program (Pagos por Servicios Ambientales, or PSA) started in 1997 and was the true pioneer in this area. It is broadly cited and has led to numerous calls for emulating its ...
Paper park performance: Mexico’s natural protected areas in the 1990s
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2015-01)
Although developing countries have established scores of new protected areas over the past three decades, they often amount to little more than ‘‘paper parks’’ that are chronically short of the financial, human, and technical ...
Tree cover on cattle farms in the southeast region of Guatemala
(Science Publishing Group, New York (Estados Unidos), 2019)
Often livestock activity is related to deforestation and loss of natural resources such as soil and water quality and
quantity. The strategies that come from this perception seek the minimization of livestock effect of ...
Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
(2017-10-09)
To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied ...
Análisis de algunos componentes de la gestión y la gobernanza del recurso hídrico en la microcuenca El Manzanar, comuna de Curacautín, Región de La Araucanía, Chile.
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2020-02)
El objetivo del estudio fue analizar algunos componentes de la gestión y la gobernanza del recurso hídrico en la microcuenca El Manzanar, Comuna de Curacautín, región de la Araucanía Chile. Para ello, se describen los ...
The impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in Central America
(Frédéric Mertens, Universidade de Brasilia (Brasil), 2018)
Protected areas (PAs) are a prominent approach to maintaining and enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem services. A critical question for safeguarding these resources is how PA governance processes and management structures ...
Identificación y caracterización de tipos de bosque en paisajes fragmentados de la Sierra Nororiental del Estado de Puebla, México
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2018)
El objetivo central de la presente investigación es contribuir con el manejo forestal sostenible de los diferentes tipos de bosques naturales que existen dentro de la Sierra Nororiental del estado de Puebla, México. La ...