Instituting nature authority, expertise, and power in Mexican forests

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mathews, Andrew S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press 2011
Series:Politics, science, and the environment series
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Collection: MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:xii, 304 pages illustrations, maps
ISBN:0262298538
9780262298537