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Sacrificing the forest : environmental and social struggles in Chiapas Cover Image Book Book

Sacrificing the forest : environmental and social struggles in Chiapas / Karen L. O'Brien.

O'Brien, Karen L. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0813369053
  • ISBN: 0813338905
  • Physical Description: xiii, 210 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-200) and index.

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Subject: Deforestation > Mexico > Lacandona Forest.
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Lansdowne Library SD 418.3 M6 O37 1998 (Text) 26040002297584 Main Collection Volume hold Available -
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List of Tables and Figures
viii(2)
Preface x(2)
Acknowledgments xii
1 Introduction
1(14)
Environmental and Social Struggles in Chiapas
1(3)
Resources and Realities
4(3)
Deforestation as a Global Issue
7(1)
A Paradigm Shift
8(3)
Overview
11(2)
Unresolved Issues
13(2)
2 The Political Ecology of Deforestation
15(20)
Political Ecology
15(2)
The Proximate Causes
17(2)
The Driving Forces
19(1)
Trees for Timber
20(3)
Underlying Resources
23(1)
From Forests to Fields
24(5)
Cultivating the Forest
29(2)
Political Conflicts
31(1)
Saving the Selva
32(2)
Weaving it Together
34(1)
3 Reconfiguring the Selva Lacandona
35(26)
A Region Transformed
35(1)
The Historical Context
36(5)
Estimates of Forest Loss
41(2)
Satellite Views of Deforestation
43(5)
Patterns of Deforestation
48(13)
4 Facilitating Access
61(28)
Extractive Industries
61(1)
Logging in the Selva Lacandona
62(2)
Land Acquisition
64(6)
Timber Extraction
70(4)
The End of an Era
74(1)
A Contentious Period
75(7)
Oil Exploration
82(3)
Roads to Destruction
85(4)
5 Agricultural Changes and Continuities
89(21)
The Agricultural Frontier
89(1)
Agricultural Transformations in Mexico
90(3)
Neoliberal Reforms
93(4)
Agricultural Politics in Chiapas
97(1)
The Colonial Legacy
98(4)
Land Concentration in Chiapas
102(3)
Post-Revolutionary Agrarian Reforms
105(3)
The Backdrop to Colonization
108(2)
6 Colonizing the Selva
110(23)
Land Reforms in Chiapas
110(3)
Colonizing the Frontier
113(7)
Farming Systems in the Selva Lacandona
120(5)
The Logic of Cattle Ranching
125(6)
Living on the Edge
131(2)
7 Refugees and Rebels
133(19)
Political Upheavals
133(1)
Guatemalan Refugees
134(5)
The Zapatista Uprising
139(3)
Peasant Mobilization
142(2)
A Region Revolts
144(3)
Ecological Implications
147(5)
8 Conservation Strategies
152(24)
The Other Part of the Picture
152(2)
Mexico's Patrimonio Natural
154(5)
Managing the Forest
159(5)
Conservation and Development
164(4)
Tensions over Tenure
168(3)
The Logging Divide
171(3)
The Future of Conservation
174(2)
9 Sacrificing the Forest
176(9)
Driving Forces, Countervailing Pressures
176(2)
The Aftermath of the Zapatista Uprising
178(3)
The Future of the Selva Lacandona
181(4)
Notes 185(5)
References 190(11)
Index 201

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