Promedio de días con lluvia en Costa Rica, Junio

Mapa perteneciente al Atlas Climático de Costa Rica y corresponde a un mapa de isoyetas del promedio de días con lluvia, en Junio.

Promedio de días con lluvia en Costa Rica, Julio

Mapa perteneciente al Atlas Climático de Costa Rica y corresponde a un mapa de isoyetas del promedio de días con lluvia, en Julio.

Promedio de días con lluvia en Costa Rica, Agosto

Mapa perteneciente al Atlas Climático de Costa Rica y corresponde a un mapa de isoyetas del promedio de días con lluvia, en Agosto.

Tipos de influencia según ubicación de sistemas o ciclones tropicales para Costa Rica.

Mapa de ubicación de amenazas naturales, con el objetivo de apoyar el proceso de prevención y mitigación de riesgo y desastres naturales en Costa Rica.

Cross culture comparison of tax morale and tax compliance : evidence from Costa Rica and Switzerland

This paper analyzes the effects of internal and external social norms on tax morale and tax compliance behavior. Field data and data derived from laboratory experiments are used to examine tax morale and tax compliance behavior in Costa Rica and Switzerland. The results indicate that internal and external social norms have a significant effect on tax morale and tax compliance.

La modernización entre cafetales : San José, Costa Rica, 1880-1930

This work examines the urban modernization of San José, Costa Rica, between 1880 and 1930, using a cultural approach to trace the emergence of the bourgeois city in a small Central American capital, within the context of order and progress. As proposed by Henri Lefebvre, Manuel Castells and Edward Soja, space is given its rightful place as protagonist. The city, subject of this study, is explored as a seat of social power and as the embodiment of a cultural transformation that took shape in that space, a transformation spearheaded by the dominant social group, the Liberal elite. An analysis of the product built environment allows us to understand why the city grew in a determined manner: how the urban space became organized and how its infrastructure and services distributed. Although the emphasis is on the Liberal heyday from 1880-1930, this study also examines the history of the city since its origins in the late colonial period through its consolidation as a capital during the independent era, in order to characterize the nineteenth century colonial city that prevailed up to 1890 s. A diverse array of primary sources including official acts, memoirs, newspaper sources, maps and plans, photographs, and travelogues are used to study the initial phase of San Jose s urban growth. The investigation places the first period of modern urban growth at the turn of the nineteenth century within the prevailing ideological and political context of Positivism and Liberalism. The ideas of the city s elite regarding progress were translated into and reflected in the physical transformation of the city and in the social construction of space. Not only the transformations but also the limits and contradictions of the process of urban change are examined. At the same time, the reorganization of the city s physical space and the beginnings of the ensanche are studied. Hygiene as an engine of urban renovation is explored by studying the period s new public infrastructure (including pipelines, sewer systems, and the use of asphalt pavement) as part of the Saneamiento of San José. The modernization of public space is analyzed through a study of the first parks, boulevards and monuments and the emergence of a new urban culture prominently displayed in these green spaces. Parks and boulevards were new public and secular places of power within the modern city, used by the elite to display and educate the urban population into the new civic and secular traditions. The study goes on to explore the idealized image of the modern city through an analysis of European and North American travelogues and photography. The new esthetic of theatrical-spectacular representation of the modern city constructed a visual guide of how to understand and come to know the city. A partial and selective image of generalized urban change presented only the bourgeois facade and excluded everything that challenged the idea of progress. The enduring patterns of spatial and symbolic exclusion built into Costa Rica s capital city at the dawn of the twentieth century shed important light on the long-term political social and cultural processes that have created the troubled urban landscapes of contemporary Latin America.

The Liminality of Cosmopolitanism from the Global South – Transnational Activists in Costa Rica between Colonial Legacies and Decolonial Attitudes

The Master’s thesis examines whether and how decolonial cosmopolitanism is empirically traceable in the attitudes and practices of Costa Rican activists working in transnational advocacy organizations. Decolonial cosmopolitanism is defined as a form of cosmopolitanism from below that aims to propose ways of imagining – and putting into practice – a truly globe-encompassing civic community not based on relations of domination but on horizontal dialogue. This concept has been developed by and shares its basic presumptions with the theory on coloniality that the modernity/coloniality/decoloniality research group is putting forward. It is analyzed whether and how the workings of coloniality as underlying ontological assumption of decolonial cosmopolitanism and broadly subsumable under the three logics of race, capitalism, and knowledge, are traceable in intermediate postcolonial transnational advocacy in Costa Rica. The method of analysis chosen to approach these questions is content analysis, which is used for the analysis of qualitative semi-structured in-depth interviews with Costa Rican activists working in advocacy organizations with transnational ties. Costa Rica was chosen as it – while unquestionably a Latin American postcolonial country and thus within the geo-political context in which the concept was developed – introduces a complex setting of socio-cultural and political factors that put the explanatory potential of the concept to the test. The research group applies the term ‘coloniality’ to describe how the social, political, economic, and epistemic relations developed during the colonization of the Americas order global relations and sustain Western domination still today through what is called the logic of coloniality. It also takes these processes as point of departure for imagining how counter-hegemonic contestations can be achieved through the linking of local struggles to a global community that is based on pluriversality. The issues that have been chosen as most relevant expressions of the logic of coloniality in the context of Costa Rican transnational advocacy and that are thus empirically scrutinized are national identity as ‘white’ exceptional nation with gender equality (racism), the neoliberalization of advocacy in the Global South (capitalism), and finally Eurocentrism, but also transnational civil society networks as first step in decolonizing civic activism (epistemic domination). The findings of this thesis show that the various ways in which activists adopt practices and outlooks stemming from the center in order to empower themselves and their constituencies, but also how their particular geo-political position affects their work, cannot be reduced to one single logic of coloniality. Nonetheless, the aspects of race, gender, capitalism and epistemic hegemony do undeniably affect activist cosmopolitan attitudes and transnational practices. While the premisses on which the concept of decolonial cosmopolitanism is based suffer from some analytical drawbacks, its importance is seen in its ability to take as point of departure the concrete spaces in which situated social relations develop. It thus allows for perceiving the increasing interconnectedness between different levels of social and political organizing as contributing to cosmopolitan visions combining local situatedness with global community as normative horizon that have not only influenced academic debate, but also political projects.

Trees of Panama and Costa Rica

Book Review

El caso Artavia Murillo y otros vs. Costa Rica (fecundación in vitro) : la redefinición del derecho a la vida desde la concepción, reconocido en la Convención Americana

Resumen: El Artículo 4(1) de la Convención Americana protege la vida de la persona por nacer desde el momento de la concepción. Esta nota analiza críticamente la interpretación restrictiva de este artículo realizada por la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos en el caso Artavia Murillo y otros vs. Costa Rica, sobre la prohibición de la fecundación in vitro en ese país. La nota describe cómo la Corte revirtió parcialmente el reconocimiento del derecho a la vida del niño no nacido, qué hicieron los Estados latinoamericanos, al adoptar la Convención Americana, a través de una aplicación distorsionada de sus propias técnicas de interpretación y de las normas internacionales de interpretación de los tratados.

The physical oceanography of the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica, a tropical estuary

ENGLISH: Distributions of salinity, temperature, and oxygen in the Gulf of Nicoya based on approximately bimonthly surveys between the period March 1952 to December 1957 have been examined. SPANISH: Se examinó la distribución de la salinidad, temperatura y oxígeno en el Golfo de Nicoya, sobre la base de observaciones aproximadamente bimensuales efectuadas de marzo de 1952 a diciembre de 1957.

Observations on the taxonomy, biology, and ecology of the Engraulid and Clupeid fishes in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica.

ENGLISH: In 1952 and 1953, during the course of a study of the abrupt decline and apparent disappearance from the Gulf of Nicoya of the population of anchovetas (Cetengraulis mysticetus), an important tuna bait fish, considerable material was collected on the taxonomy, biology, and ecology of the several anchovies and the herrings inhabith1g the Gulf. The Gulf of Nicoya, approximately 50 miles long and varying in width from about 5 to 35 miles, is located on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The family Engraulididae is represented by four genera comprising fourteen species, and nine species were identified as members of eight genera of the family Clupeidae. All of the species inhabit other coastal areas of the tropical Eastern Pacific. SPANISH: En 1952 Y 1953, durante el curso de un estudio sobre la declinación abrupta y la aparente desaparición en el Golfo de Nicoya de la población de anchovetas (Cetengraulis mysticetus) un pez de importancia para la pesca del atún, se recolectó material considerable relacionado con la taxonomía, biología y ecología de las diversas especies de anchoas y arenques que habitan dicho Golfo. El Golfo de Nicoya, que mide aproximadamente 50 millas de largo y varía en su anchura entre 5 y 35 millas, se encuentra en la costa del Pacífico de Costa Rica. La familia de los Engráulidos está representada por cuatro géneros que comprenden catorce especies, y otras nueve fueron identificadas como miembros de ocho géneros de la familia Clupeidae. Todas estas especies habitan otras áreas costeras del Pacífico Oriental tropical. (PDF contains 144 pages.)

Alvará de declaração com força de Lei, pelo qual V.A.R. ha por bem ordenar, que os Ministros, quando despacharem o levantamento dos depositos feitos no Banco Nacional, o fação por precatorios expedidos na conformidade do que se acha determinado para a Junta da Administração dos depositos de Lisboa no Alvará de seis de julho de mil setecentos cincoenta e quatro, na forma acima exposta : para Vossa Alteza Real ver

Variação do Título : Obrigação de precatorias para levantamento de depositos no Banco do Brasil.

Climate change impacts on the water services in Costa Rica: a production function for the hydroenergy sector

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Extrafiscalidade e meio ambiente: O tributo como instrumento de proteção ambiental. Reflexões sobre a tributação ambiental no Brasil e na Costa Rica.

O objeto central da pesquisa dirige-se à análise do papel que pode desempenhar o tributo como um dos instrumentos jurídicos que podem ser utilizados pelo Estado com a finalidade de proteger o meio ambiente e promover o desenvolvimento sustentável. O trabalho analisa a introdução da variável ambiental no sistema tributário do Brasil e da Costa Rica. Considerando o caráter poliédrico da questão ambiental, a pesquisa foi estruturada em cinco capítulos, desenvolvidos a partir de quatro perspectivas, todas elas interligadas entre si: 1. A perspectiva ética-ambiental. No primeiro capítulo é feita uma reflexão sobre a crise ambiental que caracteriza a sociedade de risco e sobre os postulados éticos que devem nortear a relação do ser humano com a natureza. Sustenta-se que o discurso ético deve ser um referente necessário no debate da questão ambiental. A ética deve ser o ponto de partida para o desenho e implementação de instrumentos jurídicos cuja finalidade seja a defesa do meio ambiente; 2. A perspectiva constitucional ambiental. No segundo capítulo analisa-se o direito ao meio ambiente ecologicamente equilibrado, direito fundamental da terceira dimensão, fundamentado no valor da solidariedade e que passa a ser estabelecido como um direito fundamental em diversas Constituições Políticas a partir da década dos setenta do século passado; 3. A perspectiva econômica ambiental. No terceiro capítulo reflete-se sobre a estreita relação existente entre economia e meio ambiente, sobre as externalidades ambientais, o papel do Estado como regulador das atividades econômicas, a ideia de desenvolvimento sustentável, e sobre os instrumentos de regulação ambiental. 4. A perspectiva tributária ambiental. A partir da base preliminar exposta nos três primeiros capítulos, nos capítulos quatro e cinco é analisado o tema da tributação ambiental. No capítulo quatro são realizadas considerações sobre o fundamento e as finalidades dos tributos. Destaca-se que a fiscalidade ambiental pode ser implementada através de tributos ambientais em sentido estrito próprio -, de finalidade extrafiscal, ou através de tributos ambientais em sentido amplo impróprio -, caracterizados pela introdução de elementos ambientais na tributação ordinária, que produzem efeitos extrafiscais. É feita uma reflexão sobre os princípios que orientam e limitam a extrafiscalidade ambiental, as críticas realizadas aos tributos ambientais, os elementos do tributo ambiental estrito sensu, e sobre algumas das experiências tributário ambientais de maior relevância no direito comparado. Finalmente, no último capítulo, a partir do marco de referência prévio analisa-se o estado da tributação ambiental no Brasil e na Costa Rica. São descritas as principais figuras tributárias de caráter ambiental existentes nos ordenamentos jurídicos do Brasil e da Costa Rica, e reflete-se sobre as características da tributação ambiental em ambos os países. São realizadas recomendações que poderão ser consideradas nos procedimentos para propor e implementar tributos ambientais, e são realizadas algumas observações com o intuito de elaborar uma proposta para esverdear o sistema tributário do Brasil e da Costa Rica. A tese pretende ser um contributo para o debate sobre ao papel que pode desempenhar a tributação ambiental, como uma das possíveis respostas ao uso inconsciente da natureza, e como instrumento para promover uma consciência ambiental que vise o desenvolvimento sustentado.