The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes

Commendation Quotes: This is an important and comprehensive book that is timely, original, and of uniformly high quality. There is relatively little familiarity outside of Mexico with the incredibly rich experience of community forest management there. Certainly no comprehensive review such as this book exists that covers so many aspects of the subject. . . . The book will appeal to scholars from both social and biophysical sciences interested in forest management and in broader conservation and development issues. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction, History, and Policy Chapter 1: Community Managed in the Strong Sense of the Phrase: The Community Forest Enterprises of Mexico David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Perez, and Deborah Barry Chapter 2: Contested Terrain: Forestry Regimes and Community Responses in Northeastern Michoacan, 1940-2000 Christopher R. Boyer Chapter 3: Forest and Conservation Policies and Their Impact on Forest Communities in Mexico Leticia Merino-Perez and Gerardo Segura-Warnholtz Chapter 4: Challenges for Forest Certification and Community Forestry in Mexico Patricia Gerez-Fernandez and Enrique Alatorre-Guzman Part II: Social Processes and Community Forestry Chapter 5: Indigenous Community Forest Management in the Sierra Juarez, Oaxaca Francisco Chapela Chapter 6: Empowering Community-Based Forestry in Oaxaca: The Union of Forest Communities and Ejidos of Oaxaca, 1985-1996 Rodolfo Lopez-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 Maria Angelica Navarro-Martinez Chapter 10: Land Use/Cover Change in Community-Based Forest Management Regions and Protected Areas in Mexico Elvira Duran-Medina, Jean-Francois Mas, and Alejandro Velazquez 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 Balcon, Tecpan, Guerrero Juan Manuel Torres-Rojo, Alejandro Guevara-Sangines, 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 About the Contributors IndexPublisher Marketing: 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.

Contributor Bio:  Bray, David Barton DAVID BARTON BRAY is Professor of Environmental Studies and Director, Institute for Sustainability Science in Latin America and the Caribbean, at Florida International University in Miami. Contributor Bio:  Merino-Perez, Leticia DAVID BARTON BRAY is Professor of Environmental Studies and Director, Institute for Sustainability Science in Latin America and the Caribbean, at Florida International University in Miami. Contributor Bio:  Barry, Deborah DAVID BARTON BRAY is Professor of Environmental Studies and Director, Institute for Sustainability Science in Latin America and the Caribbean, at Florida International University in Miami.