Weather and climate socio-economic impacts in Central America for the management and protection of world heritage sites and the Diquis Delta culture in Costa Rica (a case study)

The Central America region hosts a valuable amount of World Heritage Sites (WHS), many of them located in areas of floods, landslides, drought, high winds, intense precipitations, and earthquakes. The effective management of WHS requires the understanding of this type of environmental phenomena and...

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Main Authors: J. A. Amador, E. J. Alfaro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2014-01-01
Series:Advances in Geosciences
Online Access:http://www.adv-geosci.net/35/157/2014/adgeo-35-157-2014.pdf