Author: Enrique LeffPublisher: Unam
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : es
Pages : 500
Book Description
Recursos naturales, técnica y cultura
Author: Enrique LeffPublisher: Unam
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : es
Pages : 500
Book Description
Recursos Naturales, Tecnica Y Cultura
Author: Ensayos sobre recursos naturales, tecnología y cultura
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789688842584
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : es
Pages : 62
Book Description
Instituting Nature
Author: Andrew S. MathewsPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262016524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A study of how encounters between forestry bureaucrats and indigenous forest managers in Mexico produced official knowledge about forests and the state.
Cultura y manejo sustentable de los recursos naturales
Author: Enrique LeffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : es
Pages : 522
Book Description
Biodiversity and Native America
Author: Paul E. MinnisPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133454
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Exploring the relationship between Native Americans and the natural world, Biodiversity and Native America questions the widespread view that indigenous peoples had minimal ecological impact in North America. Introducing a variety of perspectives - ethnopharmacological, ethnographic, archaeological, and biological - this volume shows that Native Americans were active managers of natural ecological systems. The book covers groups from the sophisticated agriculturalists of the Mississippi River drainage region to the low-density hunter-gatherers of arid western North America. This book allows readers to develop accurate restoration, management, and conservation models through a thorough knowledge of native peoples’ ecological history and dynamics. It also illustrates how indigenous peoples affected environmental patterns and processes, improving crop diversity and agricultural patterns.
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Changing Tropical Forests
Author: Harold K. SteenPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822312369
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Changing Tropical Forests begins with an overview of the history of deforestation in tropical America and the tasks facing Latin American environmental historians. Based on proceedings of a 1991 conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Forest History Group in Costa Rica, the contributors offer detailed accounts of the enivornmental history of specific forest conditions, grasslands, and changing ecosystems of Costa Rica, Mexico, Surinam, and Brazil. the role of human intervention in this process of change is also discussed. Contributors. William Balée, James R. Barborak, Peter Boomgaard, Larissa V. Brown, Gerardo Budowski, John Dargavel, Warren Dean, Silvia del Amo R., Elizabeth Graham, J. Régis Guillaumon, Rhena Hoffmann, Sally P. Horn, Sebastião Kengen, Herman W. Konrad, Mary Pamela Lehmann, Robert D. Leier, Murdo J. MacLeod, M. Patricia Marchak, Elinor G. K. Melville, David M. Pendergast, Susan M. Pierce, Leslie E. Sponsel, Richard P. Tucker, Terry West
Political Change and Environmental Policymaking in Mexico
Author: Jordi DiezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135520992
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book explores environmental policymaking in Mexico as a vehicle to understanding the broader changes in the policy process within a system undergoing a democratic transformation. It constitutes the first major analysis of environmental policymaking in Mexico at the national level, and examines the implementation of forestry policy in Mexico's largest rain forest, the Selva Lacandona of the state of Chiapas.
Mexico’s Community Forest Enterprises
Author: David Barton BrayPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816541124
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The road to sustainable forest management and stewardship has been debated for decades. Some advocate for governmental control and oversight. Some say that the only way to stem the tide of deforestation is to place as many tracts as possible under strict protection. Caught in the middle of this debate, forest inhabitants of the developing world struggle to balance the extraction of precarious livelihoods from forests while responding to increasing pressures from national governments, international institutions, and their own perceptions of environmental decline to protect biodiversity, restore forests, and mitigate climate change. Mexico presents a unique case in which much of the nation’s forests were placed as commons in the hands of communities, who, with state support and their own entrepreneurial vigor, created community forest enterprises (CFEs). David Barton Bray, who has spent more than thirty years engaged with and researching Mexican community forestry, shows that this reform has transformed forest management in that country at a scale and level of maturity unmatched anywhere else in the world. For decades Mexico has been conducting a de facto large-scale experiment in the design of a national social-ecological system (SES) focused on community forests. What happens when you give subsistence communities rights over forests, as well as training, organizational support, equipment, and financial capital? Do the communities destroy the forest in the name of economic development, or do they manage them sustainably, generating current income while maintaining intergenerational value as a resource for their children? Bray shares the scientific and social evidence that can now begin to answer these questions. This is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and the interested public on the future of global forest resilience and the possibilities for a good Anthropocene.