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Agriculture, Forests and Individuals: The Environmental Conflict in Costa Rica, 1880–2021

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Through review and analysis of primary and secondary sources, this article shows how the Costa Rican agricultural system developed between 1880 and 2021, based on livestock, food production and export of wood and crops, causing severe impact on forests and other natural resources. This pressure of agriculture on nature has produced the emergence of environmental conflicts throughout the study period, initially caused by the intensive appropriation of forests and later by pollution and destruction of the natural environment. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .

Source: Global Environment

DOI: 10.3828/whpge.63837646622502

Author: Edgar Eduardo Blanco Obando

Institutions: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universidad Nacional, Universidad de Costa Rica

Language: English

Topic: Latin American rural development

Subfield: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4402708603

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