Environmental policy and administrative management

With the ratification of the convinced of the United Nations in the fight against the Desertificaci n and the Sequ to (UNCCD), Costa Rica is dedicated to developing a program of Acci n Nacional (PAN) to combat and rehabilitate degraded lands. As part of the process of conceptualizaci n of the bread is developed a methodology of priorizaci n of watersheds degraded through the use of indicators biof classics and based monkeys. By applying this methodology, was obtained a select n of degraded areas, being the basin of the r or Jes s sea which is worse. This space geogr fico supports the effects of an impoverished area disjointed migration n of its inhabitants to urban centres by the exhaustion of its land, mainly in the upper parts of the basin and the deterioration of its agr queue models and as a consequence a decreasing unsustainable progressive n of the income of families. The small you farmers face reduced yields as a result of the erosion n and exploitation over n of the land available for activities such as confined to and crops on inappropriate sites and without the t appropriate techniques, situation which has progressively generated a migration n of the population towards urban areas in pa s. The escorrent as erode the soil on farms and roads, this caused because the soils are unprotected, without vegetation.

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