Environmental Sustainability Challenges In Costa Rica And El Salvador

Costa Rica is certainly more than a vacation location, It a place that makes you want to come back for many long lifetime memories. It a place that gives you interactive experience each day. The country provides a collection of biodiversity and environmental charm in which you want to crave more each day. With royal volcanoes, foggy cloud forests, stunning river valleys, and tons of beaches along both the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Costa Rica can grant you an amazing story that you can explore with its lovely geographic location. It shows the history of how peaceful and family driven culture is. So came explore what we call Costa Rica.

Costa Rica has a narrow Pacific coastal region that rises abruptly into central highlands. The highlands, forming the rugged backbone of the country, descend much more gradually toward the generally wider Caribbean (Atlantic) Plain. The Pacific coast is generally lowland in character, and, like the Caribbean coast, it is lined with white sandy beaches. The country has made use of its

Many people immigrate to Costa Rica for the education and literacy rate there are extraordinary. There’s Many goods in Costa Rica such as Coffee Beans, Bananas, Lumber and Sugar and they are all exported from Costa Rica. The people from Costa Rica depend on fruit, mining, lumber and other resources the country has adapted to the area by building houses with area conditioning and bridges for areas that are separated by bodies of water they have also build dams that provide energy and big factories for producing mass production products they also have airlines, airplanes, the postal mail services and etc. They have also evolved in communication because back then they could only communicate through person and now they communicate through email, text, and

In the world there are various places that are attracted from people and culture around the world. Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north that is an amazing place to visit and learn from.

Now for climate, these 2 countries are greatly different from each other when it comes to weather. Canada is generally very cold and has a lot of snowfall throughout the year. Whereas, Costa rica is the complete opposite. It is always very hot and humid there and rainfall is consistent throughout the year. Costa Rica is classified in 2 main seasons “The Dry Season” which is December through April and “The Rainy Season” which is May through November.

Shane Lane, talks about harmonizing and dishamornizing human and natural environments. Here the focus is on the basic issues concerning the environment, Stea and Lane point out that urbanization and deforestation are some of the key factors causing the environmental issues. The authors make mention that there are recent improvements Latin America to preserve the environment. These preservation programs include inventive use of alternative energy sources, forest preservation, and creating ways in which to engage the private sector. However, most of these efforts are remedial instead of preventative, this is in part because identification and prioritization of environmental issues varies from country to country in Latin

     Known for it’s natural beauty and gracious people is a small country located in Central America. Located between the countries of Nicaragua and Panama, bordered by both the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea is a true gem, the Republic of Costa Rica. Located ten degrees north of the equator Costa Rica is in the tropics and even though it is a small country it has a very diverse landscape and a variety of weather as well.

El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America has become the first country in the world to ban metal mining after a series of disputes with a Canadian-Australian company over the environmental aspects of the gold project. The country also has a partial ban in elements, such as the cyanide. The gold project was established between the company mentioned earlier and El Salvador. This project was supposed to bring economic benefits for the country. It is important to recall that metal mining has been one of the biggest sources of the income of the country since the 1990s after its civil war. Moreover, El Salvador is facing external debts and does not have many sources to pay it back. Hence, the gold project was seen as a crucial source of income. However, El Salvador has terminated this project because it was going to do a lot of environmental damages. A group composed of officials, lobbyists, academics and the church were united for the bill passed in the country against gold mining. The draft law against mining passed with 69 votes in favor, even though only 43 ballots were required for the bill to be passed.

Costa Rica, meaning Rich Coast, can attribute its assortment of wildlife and natural wonders to its assorted geography, ecological zones, and microclimates. Costa Rica 's geography shows a record of disaster, with earthquakes, floods, and volcanoes forming the scene today. A mixture of mountains, beaches, rivers, and powerful waterfalls shape the smaller country at 19,653 square miles. (Geography of Costa Rica, 2014) Found just 10 degrees north of the equator, Costa Rica appreciates a hot climate compared to a sunny tropical paradise. Mountains and rain forests mixed with the two oceans surrounding the country create it’s four main geographical areas: The Tropical Lowlands, the Northern Central Plains, the Central Valley, and the Northwest Peninsula. (Geography of Costa Rica, 2014) Costa Rica also has at least 60 volcanoes, five of which

Physical Features Central America is an isthmus, connecting the two separate land to form a continent. It is made up of seven countries: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and

The Republic of Costa Rica is a small nation; it is home to just over 4.8 million people in an area roughly comparable to Vermont and New Hampshire combined. The land that comprises modern Costa Rica is significantly lacking in terms of ‘classical natural resources,’ that is, fossil fuel deposits, and precious metals, among others. Sections of the nation that do contain such deposits are often protected national forests, or in some cases purposefully undeveloped. Thus, economic development historically oriented towards export-focused agrarian production. Despite this, Costa Rica has been able to commit to a renewable energy grid, abolish its military, and in recent years, develop industries in consumer electronics, medical equipment, and information technology. One of the most curious questions concerning the peculiar situation in Costa Rica is “Why?” Why has a small Latin American nation been able to completely reform energy production and do away with its military far earlier than its neighbors and much of the world? Ironically, Costa Rica has been aided in these endeavors by its lack of resources, in a ‘reverse-resource curse.’ That is, a lack of resources has contributed positively toward the development of a stable government and economy. Without large domestic sources of fossil fuels, energy production has specialized in the form of renewable generation. Similarly, the Costa Rican government’s ability to abolish the military stems almost

One country I would like to visit in the next couple years is Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a Central American country situated between Panama and Nicaragua. Costa Rica is popular tourist attraction known for its rain forest, beaches,volcanoes and pre-columbian history.

Unfortunately, due to its attempts in order to modernize the region it is experiencing many problems with things such as deforestation and habitat destruction. Central American countries have experienced cycles of deforestation and reforestation ever since the decline of the mayan civilization, influenced by many things such as, ‘ population growth, agriculture and urbanization.’ It was made clear that in 2010, ‘Belize had 63% of remaining forest cover, Costa Rica 46%, Panama 45%, Honduras 41%, Guatemala 37%, Nicaragua 29%, and El Salvador 21%.’ Most of the deforestation has been caused by Urbanization as well as agriculture, however there is also a very big problem with Narco- deforestation in which the illegal drug trade ‘cut down the forest in order to aid their drug manufacturing and distributing

Sustainability and conservation play a large role in Costa Rican culture and laws. The nation is home to almost 6 percent of the world’s biodiversity though it occupies only 0.03 percent of earth’s surface. Throughout the country, people coexist with everything from tree frogs to sloths, and to protect these species and countless more, a quarter of the country’s land has been reserved. Costa Rica is among the world’s top ten most sustainable countries and is currently on track to be the first carbon neutral one. The U.S. is not totally lacking in concern for conservation, but is faster to develop land, ignoring ecosystem consequences.

This paper will talk about the sustainability of Costa Rica and the electrical system within its delivery system. Costa Rica has determined that its future depends on its Pura Vida lifestyle as well as its sustainable electrical grid. The people and the economy of Costa Rica depend on this sustainability and all that it leads to in its heavily dominated tourist economy.