%0 Journal Article %A Gallego Lupiáñez, Francisco %A Outerelo Domínguez, Enrique %T Paracompactness and closed subsets. %D 1989 %@ 0387-4982 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57491 %X In this paper we introduce some covering properties related to paracompactness, which allow us to characterize paracompact, compact, pseudocompact, lightly compact,collectionwise normal with respect to paracompact and closed sets, and countably compact spaces. %~