Conservation Institutions
 
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  • Abramovitz, J. 1989. A survey of U.S.-based efforts to research and conserve biological diversity in developing countries. World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • Aspinall, W., G. Powell, A. Pounds, J. Gradwohl, N. Nadkarni, M. Carr, E. Miles, C. Williams, and R. Villamil. 1991. Master plan for Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Atmetlla, A. 1995. Manual de instrumentos jurídicos privados para la protección de los recursos naturales. Fundación Neotrópica/Editorial Heliconia, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Aylward, B., K. Allen, J. Echeverría, and J. Tosi. 1996. Sustainable ecotourism in Costa Rica: The Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. Biodiversity and Conservation 5:315-343.
  • Baker, C. 1994. Costa Rica handbook. Moon Publications, Chico, California, USA.
  • Blake, B., and A. Becher. 1997. The new key to Costa Rica. 13th edition. Ulysses Press, Berkeley, California, USA.
  • Boo, E. 1990. Ecotourism: the potentials and pitfalls. World Wildlife Fund, 2 vols. Washington, D.C., USA.
  • Boza, M. 1993. Conservation in action: past, present, and future of the National Park System in Costa Rica. Conservation Biology 7:239-247.
  • Boza, M., D. Jukofsky, and C. Wille. 1995. Costa Rica is a laboratory, not ecotopia. Conservation Biology 9:684-685.
  • Caulfield, C. 1984. In the rainforest. Knopf, New York, USA.
  • Centro de Educación Creativa (CEC). 1991-1996. Bulletin. Centro de Educación Creativa, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacíon y Enseñanza (CATIE). 1985. Plan de manejo y desarrollo: Reserva Biológica Monteverde. CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Chamberlain, F. 1993. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Children's Rainforest U.S. 1994. The Children's Rainforest. U.S. Lewiston, Maine, USA.
  • _____. 1996. Rainforest routes: an occasional newsletter for teachers and others. Lewiston, Maine, USA.
  • Collard, S. B. III. 1997. Monteverde: science and scientists in a Costa Rican cloud forest. Grolier Publishing, Danburg, Connecticut, USA.
  • Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE). 1993. Cooperative study centers: Monteverde Institute, Costa Rica. Ecology of the rainforest: tropical biology and conservation. Summer 1994. CIEE, New York, New York, USA
  • Creative Learning Center (CEC). 1992. Creative Learning Center/Centro de Education Creativa. Centro de Educación Creativa, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • De la Rosa, P. 1995. Bajo del Tigre trail guide. Monteverde Conservation League, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • Echeverría, J., M. Hanrahan, and R. Solórzano. 1995. Valuation on non-priced amenities provided by the biological resources within the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve, Costa Rica. Ecological Economics 13:43-52.
  • Fogden, M. 1993. An annotated checklist of the birds of Monteverde and Peñas Blancas. Litografía e Imprenta LIL, S.A., San José, Costa Rica.
  • Forsyth, A. 1988. Journey through a tropical jungle. Simon and Schuster Inc., New York, New York, USA.
  • Forsyth, A., M. Fogden, and P. Fogden. 1988. The lessons of Monteverde. Equinox Mar./Apr.:56-61.
  • Friends Committee on Unity With Nature (FCUN). 1993. Ann Kriebel/San Luis project. Annual Report.
  • _____. 1994. Gracias a la vida: The Ann Kriebel/San Luis story. Omega Graphics, n.p.
  • Fuller, K., and D. Williamson. 1988. Debt-For-Nature-Swaps. International Environmental Reporter May:301-303.
  • Gallup, C. 1987. The relationship between the Monteverde Cloud Reserve and the neighboring communities of: Cerro Plano, La Cruz, Santa Elena and Monteverde. TRI Working Paper #34, vol. II. Tropical Resources Institute, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
  • Gómez, L. D., and J. M. Savage. 1983. Searchers on that rich coast: Costa Rican field biology, 1400-1980. Pages 1-11 in D. H. Janzen, editor. Costa Rican natural history. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Gorini, P, M. Adelman, M. Moss, and A. Mata. 1996. Cuentos del bosque nuboso. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Grumbine, R. E. 1992. Ghost bears: exploring the biodiversity crisis. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • Guindon, C. 1996. The importance of forest fragments to the maintenance of regional biodiversity in Costa Rica. Pages 168-186 in J. Schelhas and R. Greenberg, editors. Forest patches in tropical landscapes. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • Haber, W., W. Zuchowski, and E. Bello. 1996. An introduction to cloud forest trees: Monteverde, Costa Rica. La Nación, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Hartshorn, G., L. Hartshorn, A. Atmetlla, L. D. Gómez, A. Mata, L. Mata, R. Morales, R. Ocampo, D. Pool, C. Quesada, C. Solera, R. Solórzano, G. Stiles, J. Tosi, A. Umaña. C. Villalobos, and R. Wells. 1982. Costa Rica: country environmental profile. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Hayes, M., and R. LaVal, 1989. The mammals of Monteverde. 2d edition. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Hayes, M., J. A. Pounds, and W. Timmerman. 1989. An annotated list and guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Monteverde, Costa Rica. University of Texas, Tyler, Texas, USA.
  • Holdridge, L. 1967. Life zone ecology. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Ingram, S., K. Ferrell-Ingram, and N. Nadkarni. 1996. Epiphytes of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Florida, USA.
  • Kinsman, S. 1991. Education and empowerment: conservation lessons from children. Conservation Biology 5:9-10.
  • Klinger, J. 1994. Debt-for-Nature swaps and the limits to international cooperation on behalf of the environment. Environmental Politics 3:229-246.
  • Larrea, R. S., and A. Umaña. N.d. Por qué canjear deuda por naturaleza? MIRENEM, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Law, B. 1991. The birds of Monteverde. 7th edition. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1993. Birds of Bajo del Tigre/Aves del Bajo del Tigre. Monteverde Conservation League, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • Law, B., and W. Timmerman. 1992. Nature trail guide: an interpretative guide to the Sendero Nuboso of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Leitinger, I. A. 1997. Long-term survival of a Costa Rican Women’s Crafts Cooperative. Pages 210-233 in I. A. Leitinger, editor. The Costa Rican women’s movement: a reader. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Lober, D. 1990. Protecting a Costa Rican biological reserve: forest guards of Monteverde. TRI Working Paper #46. Tropical Resources Institute, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
  • _____. 1991. Protecting the Costa Rican Biological Reserve: forest guards of Monteverde. TRI News Spring:4-6.
  • McCormick J. 1989. Reclaiming paradise: the global environmental movement. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
  • McNeely, J., and K. Miller. 1982. National parks, conservation, and development. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • McNeely, J., K. Miller. W. Reid, R. Mittermeier, and T. Werner. 1990. Conserving the world's biological diversity. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Gland, Switzerland; World Resources Institute, Conservation International, World Wildlife Fund-US, and the World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • Mendenhall, M. 1995. Monteverde. Argenta Friends Press. Argenta, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Miller, K., and L. Tangley. 1991. Trees of life: saving tropical forests and their biological wealth. Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • MINAE (Ministerio de Ambiente y Energia). 1996a. Area de Conservación Arenal. MINAE, San José, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1996b. Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservación. MINAE, San José, Costa Rica.
  • MIRENEM (Ministerio de Recursos Naturales Energia y Minas). 1992. Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservación. MIRENEM, San José, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1993a. Conozcamos Arenal - Area de Conservación Arenal. MIRENEM, San José, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1993b. Parques Nacionales de Costa Rica. MIRENEM, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Montero, V., and Z. Zarate. 1991. Comunidades sociobióticas: un modelo operativo de sostenibilidad. M.A. Thesis. Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Arquitectura, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Monteverde Conservation League (MCL). 1986a. Statutes of The Monteverde Conservation League. Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1987b-1995b. Annual Report/Informe Anual. MCL. Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1986c-1995c. Tapir Tracks. 1, 1 (July-Aug.) -10, 1 (Aug.). MCL, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1994d. Bosque Eterno de los Niños. MCL. Monteverde, Costa Rica. Videocassette.
  • _____. 1994e. Colpachi (Croton niveus Jacq.). MCL, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1994f. Guachipelin (Diphysa robinioides Benth.). MCL, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1994g. Tubú (Montanoa guatemalensis Klatt). MCL, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • Monteverde Institute (MVI). 1986. Constitution of the Monteverde Institute. Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1987a-1996a. Annual Report/Informe Anual. MVI, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1993b. Bylaws of the Monteverde Institute Association. Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1994c-1995c. Monteverde Journal. 1, 1(June)-2, 2(Dec.). MVI, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1996d. Monteverde Institute. MVI, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • Morrison, P. 1994. The Monteverde area of Costa Rica: a case study of ecotourism development. M.A./M.S. Thesis. The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.
  • Moss, M. 1988. Animal stories from the cloud forest. Audiocassette. Monteverde Institute, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • Musinsky, J. 1991. The design of conservation corridors in Monteverde, Costa Rica. TRI Working Paper #60. Tropical Resources Institute, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
  • Nadkarni, N. 1993. Canopy plants of the Monteverde Cloud Forest. 4th edition. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Paaby, P., and D. B. Clark. 1995. Conservation and local naturalist guide training programs in Costa Rica. Pages 261-275 in S. K. Jacobson, editor. Wildlife conservation: international case studies of education and communication programs. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA.
  • Patent, D. M. 1996. Children save the rain forest. Cobblehill/Dutton, New York, New York, USA.
  • Rachowiecki, R. 1994. Costa Rica, a travel survival kit. 2d edition. Lonely Planet Publications, Berkeley, California, USA.
  • Rainforest Alliance. 1991. Unique debt swap to protect forest. The Canopy, Spring:1-2.
  • Robinson, B. 1988. The Costa Rican connection. Equinox. Mar.-Apr.:8-10.
  • Robinson, D. 1988. In the clouds of Costa Rica. Pages 98-113 in M. Sedeen, editor. Mountain worlds. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • Rojas, C. 1992. Monteverde: estudio inicial de los nexos entre la Reserva, el turismo, y la communidad local. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Ross, D. L., Jr. 1992. Voices of the cloud forest. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.
  • Rovinski, Y. 1991. Private reserves, parks, and ecotourism in Costa Rica. Pages 39-57 in T. Whelan, editor. Nature tourism. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • Savage, J. M. 1966. An extraordinary new toad (Bufo periglenes) from Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 14:153-167.
  • Shaw, S. 1978. Is this the Garden of Eden? International Wildlife 8:50-54.
  • Sheck, R. S. 1996. Costa Rica, a natural destination. 4th edition. John Muir Publications, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
  • Snow, B.K. 1977. Territory behavior and courtship of the male Three-wattled Bellbird. Auk 94:623-645.
  • Solórzano, R., and J. Echeverría. 1993. Impacto económico de la Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Stiles, F. G., and A. Skutch. 1989. A guide to the birds of Costa Rica. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, USA.
  • Stone, D. 1988. The Organization For Tropical Studies (OTS): a success story in graduate training and research. Pages 143-187 in F. Almeda and C. Pringle, editors. Tropical rainforest diversity and conservation. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Stuckey, J. 1988. Kicking the subsidized habit: viewing rural development as a function of local savings mobilization. Page 2 in The Santa Elena case: modifications for the 1990’s. MBA, National University, San Diego, California, San José, Costa Rica campus.
  • _____. 1992. Organizaciones de Monteverde. Monteverde Institute, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • Stuckey, J., P. Salgado, partcipants at CARE Regional Partnering Workshop, Costa Rica. 1995. New Perspectives: Partnering profiles from outside CARE. CARE USA, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  • Takacs, D. 1996. The idea of biodiversity. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • Tangley, L. 1988. Studying (and saving) the tropics. Bioscience 38:375-385.
  • The Nature Conservancy (TNC). N.d. Swapping debt for nature. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
  • _____. 1993 Fuentes de información en Centro América: Costa Rica: un directorio institucional de información sobre recursos naturales y medio ambiente. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
  • Tobias, D. 1988. Biological and social aspects of eco-tourism: the Monteverde case. TRI Working Paper #34, vol. I. Tropical Resources Institute, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
  • Tobias, D., and R. R. Mendelsohn. 1991. Valuing ecotourism in a tropical rain-forest reserve. Ambio 20:91-93.
  • Tosi, J. 1992. A brief history of the Tropical Science Center's Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve, 1972 to 1992. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Tropical Science Center (TSC). 1992a-1994a. Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde: Informe del Director.
  • _____. 1994b. Life in the cloud forest. TSC, San José, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1995. USIJI project proposal. Monteverde-Gulf of Nicoya biological corridor. Costa Rica. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Trostle, J. 1990. The origins of the Monteverde Institute. Monteverde Institute, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • Umaña, A., and K. Brandon. 1992. Inventing institutions for conservation: lessons from Costa Rica. Pages 85-107 in S. Annis, editor. Poverty, natural resources, and public policy in Central America. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
  • Vivanco, L. 1997. Green mountains, greening people: the negotiations of conservationism in Monte Verde, Costa Rica. Ph.D. Dissertation. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
  • Wallace, D. R. 1992. The quetzal and the macaw: the story of Costa Rica's National Parks. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Wearing, S. 1993. Ecotourism: The Santa Elena Rainforest project. The Environmentalist 13:125-135.
  • Wheelwright, N.T. 1983. Fruits and the ecology of Resplendent Quetzals. Auk 100:286-301.
  • Wilson, E. O., editor. 1988. Biodiversity. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • Wolinsky, G. 1989. Water scarcity in the humid tropics: community water resources in Monteverde, Costa Rica. TRI Working Paper #40. Tropical Resources Institute, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
  • World Commission on Environment and Development. 1987. Our common future. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
  • World Resources Institute, United Nations Environment Programme, and United Nations Development Programme. 1992. World Resources 1992-1993. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA.
  • Worster, D. 1994. Nature's economy: a history of ecological ideas. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, USA.
  • Youth Challenge International. 1994. Santa Elena Forest Reserve. Self-guided trail. Centro Ecológico Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Zuchowski, W. 1987. Common flowering plants of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. 3rd edition. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
  • _____. 1995. Guide to the cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica. Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA.
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