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
Summary
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
Analysis
ENVIRONMENT/General
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-290) and index
