PARANA CANAL WATERSHED EXPERIMENT: AQUA SALUD PROJECT

摘要

The Agua Salud Project utilizes the Panama Canal's (Canal) central role in world commerce to focus global attention on the ecosystem services provided by tropical forests.rnThe Canal was one of the great engineering projects in the world. Completed in 1914, after almost a decade of concerted effort, its 80 km length greatly shortened the voyage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. An entire class of ships, the Panamax, has been constructed to maximize the amount of cargo that can be carried in a Canal passage. In today's parlance, the Canal is a "green" operation, powered largely by water (Table 1).