The Maya Biosphere Reserve (RBM) in northern Guatemala ostensibly meets the desire of
conservation interests to protect biodiversity while supporting local communities through …

In the subtropical region of Guatemala, Belize, and southeastern Mexico, social conflicts
plague efforts to prevent forest conversion to areas of concentrated human use. The social …

Since the mid to late 1990s, Latin American countries have witnessed new forms of
environmental governance strategies (MacDonald, Nielson and Stern 1997; Roberts and …

The Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) is an agrarian region with 90,350 inhabitants who live
in 196 permanent settlements within the reserve—the largest protected area in Central …

Abstract In Latin America, environmental protection is key to sustainable development, and
yet, the single-minded pursuit of environmental objectives has the potential to conflict with …

This article analyzes the contested struggles over protection and production in the
Nicaraguan biological reserve of Indio-Maíz as a local example of broader conflicts over …

Between 1987 and 1990, Guatemalan state policy in the Peten turned from felling trees in
the name of progress to guarding them from progress in the name of biodiversity. What was …

The preservation of forests rightly stands at the fore of global concern and study. ¹ An array
of interpretations, declarations, and strategies express multiple social values, agendas, and …

In Guatemala, the community and industrial forest concessions in the Maya Biosphere
Reserve were created as an innovative way to manage natural resource goods and services …

This chapter outlines the forestry concession system. This approach to conservation and
development was introduced into the Maya Biosphere Reserve in the years following its …