气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Rainforest conservation in Mexico's lowland Maya area: Integrating local meanings of conservation and land-use dynamics

CCPortal

DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2019.06.016
	Rainforest conservation in Mexico's lowland Maya area: Integrating local meanings of conservation and land-use dynamics
	Puc-Alcocer M.; Arce-Ibarra A.M.; Cortina-Villar S.; Estrada-Lugo E.I.J.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0378-1127
起始页码	300
结束页码	311
卷号	448
英文摘要	In several tropical forested areas in which biodiversity conservation and indigenous cultures are interwoven, current conservation policies do not consider how the indigenous communities understand the concept of conservation that is promoted and implemented by conservation programs led by external actors, nor do they consider local traditional practices of resource management. To move towards more inclusive conservation policies that take these two aspects into account, research is required in indigenous settings that can inform policy makers. The present study, carried out in the lowland Maya area of Mexico, aims to investigate local meanings of rainforest conservation and dynamics of land use in two Maya common property holdings or ‘ejidos’ (Noh cah and X-Maben). The study used a Social-Ecological Systems approach comprising: (i) the Maya communities and their local meanings of conservation as a Social Subsystem, assessed through social surveys, and (ii) the rainforest of each studied ejido - which was regarded as an Ecological Subsystem and assessed through satellite images (from 2000 to 2012). In the former, interviewees were asked: “when you hear the phrase ‘conservation of the rainforest’ what do you think is being said?” They were also asked if there were local words in Maya or Spanish that were similar in meaning to the aforementioned phrase. The results relating to the meanings of conservation demonstrate that Maya people, who rely on the rainforest for multiple livelihoods, understand two types of meanings for looking after the rainforest; one promoted by governmental conservation programs, and the other called Kanan K’áax, a Maya phrase that represents their customary or community-based rainforest conservation. Differences between these two models of conservation encompass differences with respect to scale, gender and the Maya people's own cultural practices. The results of the local dynamics of land use demonstrate that the landscapes of both study sites are dominated by mature rainforest (ranging from 73.9–82.7%), and are therefore in a good state of conservation, and that their agricultural frontiers have not expanded. Our empirical results are valuable in terms of informing the scientific community about the state of rainforest conservation in the Maya Zone, and providing policy makers (from the Maya area and elsewhere) with information to devise new, more inclusive conservation policies that take full account of the indigenous cultural practices of rainforest management. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
英文关键词	Common property holdings; Community-based conservation; Conservation ethic; Lowland Maya area; Slash-and-burn cultivation; Social-ecological system
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Biodiversity; Conservation; Cultivation; Decision making; Dynamics; Ecosystems; Land use; Surveys; Biodiversity conservation; Common property; Community-based conservations; Conservation programs; Lowland Maya area; Scientific community; Social-ecological systems; State of conservations; Natural resources management; biodiversity; common property resource; conservation management; conservation planning; ethics; implementation process; indigenous population; land use change; lowland environment; policy making; rainforest; resource management; satellite imagery; shifting cultivation; tropical forest; Biodiversity; Conservation; Cultivation; Decision Making; Dynamics; Ecosystems; Maya Lowlands; Mexico [North America]
来源期刊	Forest Ecology and Management
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/155877
作者单位	Community of Leona Vicario, B.J.Quintana Roo C.P. 75540, Mexico; El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Chetumal, Department of Systematics and Aquatic Ecology, Apdo. 424, Chetumal, Q.R. C.P. 77000, Mexico; El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad San Cristóbal, Department of Agriculture, Society and Environment, Carretera Panamericana y Perférico Sur s/n, Col. Barrio María Auxiliadora, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chis. C.P. 29290, Mexico
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Puc-Alcocer M.,Arce-Ibarra A.M.,Cortina-Villar S.,et al. Rainforest conservation in Mexico's lowland Maya area: Integrating local meanings of conservation and land-use dynamics[J],2019,448.
APA	Puc-Alcocer M.,Arce-Ibarra A.M.,Cortina-Villar S.,&Estrada-Lugo E.I.J..(2019).Rainforest conservation in Mexico's lowland Maya area: Integrating local meanings of conservation and land-use dynamics.Forest Ecology and Management,448.
MLA	Puc-Alcocer M.,et al."Rainforest conservation in Mexico's lowland Maya area: Integrating local meanings of conservation and land-use dynamics".Forest Ecology and Management 448(2019).