This project provided Empresa de Servicios Publicos de Heredia (ESPH) with recommendations on how they can help the communities of Heredia improve their tree planting projects. ESPH donates trees to communities who wish to participate in urban reforestation projects, but does not know about the long term care and maintenance of the plants. We were able to identify that participation, community member empowerment, and methods for long term evaluation were the major components most communities were missing from their tree planting projects. We recommended that ESPH address these problems by requiring communities to demonstrate proper planning before they receive trees. We also developed several methods to help the communities improve the structure and execution of their projects.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Encarnacion, Jenny
• Sutherland, Carol Wood
• Piard, Claire Emma

Subject

• Infrastructure
• Sustainability
• Well-Being
• Environment
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121008-152456

Parola chiave

• Open spaces
• Forest regeneration

Advisor

• Robertson, Thomas B.
• Bar-On, Isa

Year

• 2008

Center

• San Jose, Costa Rica Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Empresa de Servicios Publicos de Heredia (ESPH)
• Bolaños, Juan Diego

Date created

• 2008-12-10

luogo

• San Francisco

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Ultima modifica

• 2021-02-02