Bosques, fincas y ciudades. Un acercamiento al proceso socio-metabólico de apropiación en la Región Norte de Costa Rica (1909-1955)
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publication Date: | 2017 |
| Description: | From the perspective of social metabolism, appropriation becomes the primary form of exchange between human societies and Nature. It is during this process that societies appropriate for themselves materials, energy, and services required by humans and their artifacts, dismantling and disrupting ecosystems for productive purposes. It is on these premises that this analysis intends to shed light on the main socio-ecological transformations that took place in Costa Rica’s Northern Region, marked by a slow, late, and incomplete incorporation to the economic, social, and political project emanated from the Central Valley. Forest exploitation followed by livestock farming became the predominant economic alternatives in the region, in spite of significant intra-regional differences. This “commercial appropriation” of Nature, established since the beginning of the territory’s colonization, brought about profound ecological and environmental consequences such as the loss of biodiversity, simplification of ecosystems, depletion of soil nutrients, reduction in the forests’ ecological functions, and in general, degradation of the ecosystems. |
| Country: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Language: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/9569 |
| Online Access: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/historia/article/view/9569 |
| Keyword: | Social metabolism land use agrarian structure forest exploitation livestock farming urban development environmental deterioration Northern Region Costa Rica Metabolismo social uso del suelo estructura agraria explotación forestal ganadería expansión urbana deterioro ambiental Región Norte |