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Genre/Form: | Livres électroniques |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Mathews, Andrew S. Instituting nature. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2011009095 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew S Mathews |
OCLC Number: | 872127118 |
Notes: | Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 7 févr. 2014). TRAITEMENT SOMMAIRE. |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of Winner of ISA Environmental Studies Section Harold and Margaret Sprout Award 2013 |
Description: | 1 ressource en ligne (xii, 304 p.). |
Contents: | Building forestry in Mexico: ambitious regulations and popular evasions -- The Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca: mobile landscapes, political economy, and the fires of war -- Forestry comes to Oaxaca: bureaucrats, gangsters, and indigenous communities, 1926-1956 -- Industrial forestry, watershed control, and the rise of community forestry, 1956-2001 -- The Mexican forest service: knowledge, ignorance, and power -- The acrobatics of transparency and obscurity: forestry regulations travel to Oaxaca -- Working the indigenous industrial. |
Series Title: | Politics, science, and the environment. |
Responsibility: | Andrew S. Mathews. |
Abstract:
Here, Mathews describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent knowledge was produced by encounters between the relatively weak forestry bureaucracy and the indigenous people who manage and own the pine forests of Mexico.
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