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Changing Forests: Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras - Couverture rigide

Tucker, Catherine M.

 
9781402069765: Changing Forests: Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1402069766 ISBN 13 : 9781402069765
Editeur : Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2008

Synopsis

Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, "Changing Forests" explores how the indigenous Lenca community of La Campa, Honduras, has conserved and transformed their communal forests through the experiences of colonialism, opposition to state-controlled logging, and the recent adoption of export-oriented coffee production. It merges political ecology, collective-action theories, and institutional analysis to study how the people and forests have changed through socioeconomic and political transitions encompassed in three broad phases: (1) the premodern period, which considers historic perturbations in western Honduras from the period of colonialism into the middle of the twentieth century; (2) the period of state-led logging and intervention in La Campa, which caused major degradation in forest cover; and (3) the recent period in which export coffee production transformed property rights, and people's perceptions of the forest gained new conservationist and economic dimensions. Each phase entails perspectives and experiences that influenced human use of forests, and shaped subsequent transformations.

Growing social heterogeneity, population growth, and market integration present challenges for sustainable forest management, but satellite images show that forest cover has expanded since the community prohibited logging in 1987. The indigenous people have created a watershed reserve and agroforestry cooperatives, and maintain forests as part of a resilient livelihood strategy.

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Éditeur
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1402069766
ISBN 13 
9781402069765
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
274
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