El bosque seco en llamas. Estructura agraria y ecología política del fuego en Costa Rica
This article analyzes the dynamic of forest fires in Costa Rica from a historical perspective. Its hypothesis is that changes in the productive structure as well as Costa Rica’s agricultural policy between 1950 and 1980 influenced on the current fire regimes. To explain this process uses theoretical and methodological references from Environmental History and Ecology of Fire. This study is based on information obtained in agricultural magazines, newspapers and other primary sources located the Biblioteca Nacional, Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Programa Nacional de Manejo del Fuego and Instituto de Desarrollo Rural. It also has a oral history part through personal and group interviews, field trips and workshops with students, farmers and government officials in the Parque Nacional Barra Honda and Parque Nacional Santa Rosa, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.