Karina Castro-Arce- Doctor of Philosophy
- Assistant professor and Researcher at University of Costa Rica
Karina Castro-Arce
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Assistant professor and Researcher at University of Costa Rica
doctor in regional spatial planning interested social-ecological systems, planning practice and social innovation
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Introduction
I am a regional environmental planning researcher interested in practice-oriented issues, such as the translation of theory to practice and practice into policy, and the upscaling of local-micro solutions (technical or governance) to impact the planning policies and actions at multiple levels. karina.castro at ucr.ac.cr
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February 2019 - present
January 2014 - December 2014
February 2013 - July 2013
Education
August 2013 - December 2019
September 2010 - July 2011
August 2008 - August 2010
Publications
Publications (11)
[Introduction]: Costa Rica is internationally recognized for its progressive environmental management including the implementation of the concept of integrated water resources management. Despite this, surface and groundwater resources continue to be threatened. [Objective]: To improve the implementation of integrated water resources management in...
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are actions that help communities address social-ecological challenges such as flooding and polluted groundwater. Nevertheless, research shows that in practice, NBS confront several barriers in planning and implementation, many of which are related to the different attitudes of political and administrative actors. There...
The Grande de Tárcoles River in Costa Rica is one of the most polluted and degraded river basins in Central America. At the same time Costa Rica is a country internationally recognized for progressive environmental management. At least on paper, the country fosters sustainable river management in the form of integrated water resources management (I...
Memoria de conferencias de las IV Jornadas de Investigación de la Facultad de Ingeniería del año 2022.
Co-design processes are of key importance in planning and implementing Nature-based Solutions (NBS), but require boundary management between diverse holders of local, practical and scientific knowledge. Participatory and map-based planning tools, such as Geodesign workshops, can facilitate such boundary management through mobilising knowledge holde...
https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/ingenieria/article/view/50666
Land acquisition often involves power and displacement and can be carried out on a large scale. There are many forms of land acquisition, including for environmental and conservation purposes as well as for production activities. While green grabbing has joined land grabbing as an environmental justice issue of concern, it is not necessarily the ca...
The interactions between bottom-up initiatives and top-down structures in the implementation of regional development policies and projects are complex in theoretical and practical terms. Using concepts such as transformative social innovation, adaptive governance, and bridging institutions, we developed an analytical framework to enhance understand...
Protected areas (PAs) are social-ecological systems (SES) and are contested spaces. The challenges in governing PAs call for a governance system that works with human-nature relations and is capable of adapting to each PA. This necessitates innovative processes and adaptive governance. This paper contributes to the discussion on adaptive governance...
