International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
2 pp., Costa Rica is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the World due to the tectonic interaction of the Cocos and Caribbean plates. Earthquakes, and other natural hazards, place major stress on the country's population, infrastructure and economy, and often result in the disruption of basic services. In response to this, the Government of Costa Rica is continuously working to build the capacity of technicians to design effective disaster risk management policies and investments to reduce seismic risk.
Considers the role of beauty in Costa Rican sex work. While Costa Rica's national mythology has long focused on claims to white origins, sex tourists identify local women's ‘exoticism’ and non-whiteness as particularly appealing. Explores how women experience and manage their sexual attractiveness to foreign tourists in their daily lives and work.
Focuses on American and European tourist women in a transnational town in Atlantic Costa Rica renown for its intimate "vibe" and independent eco-oriented tourist development, where they grappled with the unexpected monetary aspects of intimate relations with Caribbean-Costa Rican men.
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread throughout Latin America and beyond based on the claim that they are an effective social policy tool to combat poverty. Gender relations are shaped by these policies. Recognizes the potential for CCTs to transform gender relations should mechanisms allowing childcare facilities and encouraging male participation in domestic labor become an integral part of these programs.
Irani, Tracy (author), Roberts, T. Grady (author), Unrah-Snyder, Lori (author), Lamm, Alexa J. (author), Brendemuhl, Joel (author), Rodriquez, Mary T. (author), and Navarro, Julia (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37251
Wunscher, Tobias (author), Engel, Stefanie (author), and Wunder, Sven (author)
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2010-09-14
Published:
Costa Rica
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C30725
Notes:
Paper presented at Tropentag 2010, Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-16, 2010. 1 page.
Palmer,Steven Paul (Editor) and Molina Jiménez,Iván (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
383 p., Includes more than fifty texts related to the country's history, culture, politics, and natural environment. Most of these newspaper accounts, histories, petitions, memoirs, poems, and essays are written by Costa Ricans. Includes Jose Cubero's "A slave's story"; Cabildo of Cartago's "Free blacks, mulattoes, and mestizos seek legitimacy"; and Clodomiro Picado's "Our blood is blackening."
Miller, Melanie (author) and Mariola, Matthew J. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2008-03-09
Published:
Costa Rica
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27983
Notes:
Presented at the 24th annual conference of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education at EARTH University, Costa Rica, March 9-15, 2008. 12 pages.
Place, Nick T. (author) and Dragon, Steffany L. (author)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
2005-05-25
Published:
Costa Rica
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24579
Journal Title Details:
21
Notes:
Reviewed 9 August 2006, 11 p. Paper presented at the International Agricultural and Extension Education group's 21st annual conference May 25-31, 2005, in San Antonio, TX
