Environmental quality of a cultural landscape 75 years after its foundation: the Banana City of Golfito, Costa Rica

In 1938, the American multinational United Fruit Company built a small city in Golfito, South Pacific of Costa Rica. Golfito persists today as an urban area flanked by a mountain chain and a small bay surrounded by mangroves. We applied a set of environmental indicators to assess the current environ...

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Main Authors: Lucía Riba Hernández, Julián Monge-Nájera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) 2016-06-01
Series:Cuadernos de investigación UNED
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Online Access:https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/cuadernos/article/view/1227