The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes

by Bray, David Barton; Merino-Perez, Leticia; Barry, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780292706378
• ISBN10: 0292706375
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-13
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

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

Acknowledgments	xv
PART I. Introduction, History, and Policy
Chapter 1: Community Managed in the Strong Sense of the Phrase: The Community Forest Enterprises of Mexico	3	(24)
DAVID BARTON BRAY, LETICIA MERINO-PÉREZ, AND DEBORAH BARRY
Chapter 2: Contested Terrain: Forestry Regimes and Community Responses in Northeastern Michoacán, 1940-2000	27	(22)
CHRISTOPHER R. BOYER
Chapter 3: Forest and Conservation Policies and Their Impact on Forest Communities in Mexico	49	(22)
LETICIA MERINO-PÉREZ AND GERARDO SEGURA-WARNHOLTZ
Chapter 4: Challenges for Forest Certification and Community Forestry in Mexico	71	(20)
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	91	(20)
FRANCISCO CHAPELA
Chapter 6: Empowering Community-Based Forestry in Oaxaca: The Union of Forest Communities and Ejidos of Oaxaca, 1985-1996	111	(14)
RODOLFO LÓPEZ-ARZOLA
Chapter 7: New Organizational Strategies in Community Forestry in Durango, Mexico	125	(26)
PETER LEIGH TAYLOR
Chapter 8: Community Adaptation or Collective Breakdown? The Emergence of "Work Groups" in Two Forestry Ejidos in Quintana Roo, Mexico	151	(32)
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	183	(32)
HENRICUS F. M. VESTER AND MARIA ANGÉLICA NAVARRO-MARTINEZ
Chapter 10: Land Use/Cover Change in Community-Based Forest Management Regions and Protected Areas in Mexico	215	(26)
ELVIRA DURÁN, JEAN-FRANÇOIS MAS, AND ALEJANDRO VELÁZQUEZ
PART IV. The Economics of Community Forestry
Chapter 11: Vertical Integration in the Community Forestry Enterprises of Oaxaca	241	(32)
CAMILLE ANTINORI
Chapter 12: The Managerial Economics of Sustainable Community Forestry in Mexico: A Case Study of El Balcon, Tecpan, Guerrero	273	(32)
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	305	(30)
DAN KLOOSTER AND SHRINIDHI AMBINAKUDIGE
Chapter 14: Community Forestry in Mexico: Twenty Lessons Learned and Four Future Pathways	335	(16)
DAVID BARTON BRAY
Appendix: Acronyms Used	351	(6)
About the Contributors	357	(6)
Index	363