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- The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of Texas Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Figures and Tables
- pp. xi-xiv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- PART I: INTRODUCTION, HISTORY, AND POLICY
- PART II: SOCIAL PROCESSES AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY
- PART III: ECOLOGY AND LAND USE CHANGE IN COMMUNITY FORESTRY
- PART IV: THE ECONOMICS OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY
- PART V: GLOBAL COMPARISONS AND CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDIX: Acronyms Used in the Book
- pp. 351-356
- About the Contributors
- pp. 357-362
Additional Information
ISBN
9780292796928
Related ISBN(s)
9780292706378
MARC Record
OCLC
614978055
Pages
390
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No