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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816274103321

Titolo

The community forests of Mexico : managing for sustainable landscapes / / edited by David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Perez, and Deborah Barry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005

ISBN

0-292-79692-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps

Classificazione

ZC 73586

Altri autori (Persone)

BrayDavid B

Merino-PerezLeticia

BarryDeborah

Disciplina

333.75/0972

Soggetti

Community forests - Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART I: INTRODUCTION, HISTORY, AND POLICY""; ""CHAPTER 1: Community Managed in the Strong Sense of the Phrase (David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Peréz, and Deborah Barry)""; ""CHAPTER 2: Contested Terrain: Forestry Regimes and Community Responses in Northeastern Michoacán, 1940-2000 (Christopher R. Boyer)""; ""CHAPTER 3: Forest and Conservation Policies and Their Impact on Forest Communities in Mexico (Leticia Merino-Peréz and Gerardo Segura-Warnholtz)""

""CHAPTER 4: Challenges for Forest Certification and Community Forestry in Mexico (Patricia Gerez-Fernández and Enrique Alatorre-Guzmán)""""PART II: SOCIAL PROCESSES AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY""; ""CHAPTER 5: Indigenous Community Forest Management in the Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca (Francisco Chapela)""; ""CHAPTER 6: Empowering Community-Based Forestry in Oaxaca: The Union of Forest Communities and Ejidos of Oaxaca, 1985-1996 (Rodolfo López-Arzola)""; ""CHAPTER 7: New Organizational Strategies in Community Forestry in Durango,Mexico (Peter Leigh Taylor)""

""CHAPTER 8: Community Adaptation or Collective Breakdown? The Emergence of ""Work Groups"" in Two Forestry Ejidos in Quintana Roo, Mexico (Peter R. Wilshusen)""""PART III: ECOLOGY AND LAND USE



CHANGE IN COMMUNITY FORESTRY""; ""CHAPTER 9: Ecological Issues in Community Tropical Forest Management in Quintana Roo, Mexico (Henricus F. M. Vester and María Angélica Navarro-Martínez)""; ""CHAPTER 10: Land Use/Cover Change in Community-Based Forest Management Regions and Protected Areas in Mexico (Elvira Durán-Medina, Jean-François Mas, and Alejandro Velázquez)""

""PART IV: THE ECONOMICS OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY""""CHAPTER 11: Vertical Integration in the Community Forestry Enterprises of Oaxaca (Camille Antinori)""; ""CHAPTER 12: The Managerial Economics of Sustainable Community Forestry in Mexico: A Case Study of El Balcón, Técpan, Guerrero (Juan Manuel Torres-Rojo, Alejandro Guevara-Sanginés, and David Barton Bray)""; ""PART V: GLOBAL COMPARISONS AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""CHAPTER 13: The Global Significance of Mexican Community Forestry (Dan Klooster and Shrinidhi Ambinakudige)""

""CHAPTER 14: Community Forestry in Mexico: Twenty Lessons Learned and Four Future Pathways (David Barton Bray)""""APPENDIX: Acronyms Used in the Book""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Mexico leads the world in community management of forests for the commercial production of timber. Yet this success story is not widely known, even in Mexico, despite the fact that communities around the globe are increasingly involved in managing their own forest resources. To assess the achievements and shortcomings of Mexico's community forest management programs and to offer approaches that can be applied in other parts of the world, this book collects fourteen articles that explore community forest management from historical, policy, economic, ecological, sociological, and political perspectives. The contributors to this book are established researchers in the field, as well as many of the important actors in Mexico's nongovernmental organization sector. Some articles are case studies of community forest management programs in the states of Michoacán, Oaxaca, Durango, Quintana Roo, and Guerrero. Others provide broader historical and contemporary overviews of various aspects of community forest management. As a whole, this volume clearly establishes that the community forest sector in Mexico is large, diverse, and has achieved unusual maturity in doing what communities in the rest of the world are only beginning to explore: how to balance community income with forest conservation. In this process, Mexican communities are also managing for sustainable landscapes and livelihoods.