Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 423 g
Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras
Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 423 g
ISBN: 978-90-481-7781-3
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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.
Zielgruppe
Research
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Fachgebiete
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Wälder
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
Weitere Infos & Material
People and Forests in Historical Perspective.- Governing the Commons and Making a Living.- Logging Comes to La Campa: State Intervention, Forest Transformation, and Collective Action.- Common-Property Transformations and Market Integration.- Coffee Culture, Crisis, and Adaptation.- Changing Lives, Changing Forests: Many Ways to Build a Future?.
