Overview
- Shows how market integration and population growth can facilitate forest conservation
- Considers 500 years of a community’s relationships with its forests
- Reveals that dynamism in forest-cover use can be a component of resilience for people and forests
- Examines how coffee producers in one community survived the coffee crisis through diversification, organized groups, and use of social networks
- Explores how an indigenous community has conserved forest cover despite rapid social and economic change, and the unanticipated consequences
- Considers how people may develop conservationist values through the experience of environmental degradation
- Addresses forest use and management as components of economic development and social change
- Examines how common-property forests became privatized and the mixed ramifications for the community and its forests
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, “Changing Forests” explores how the indigenous Lenca community of La Campa, Honduras, has conserved and transformed their communal forests through the experiences of colonialism, opposition to state-controlled logging, and the recent adoption of export-oriented coffee production. It merges political ecology, collective-action theories, and institutional analysis to study how the people and forests have changed through socioeconomic and political transitions encompassed in three broad phases: (1) the premodern period, which considers historic perturbations in western Honduras from the period of colonialism into the middle of the twentieth century; (2) the period of state-led logging and intervention in La Campa, which caused major degradation in forest cover; and (3) the recent period in which export coffee production transformed property rights, and people’s perceptions of the forest gained new conservationist and economic dimensions. Each phase entails perspectives and experiences that influenced human use of forests, and shaped subsequent transformations.
Growing social heterogeneity, population growth, and market integration present challenges for sustainable forest management, but satellite images show that forest cover has expanded since the community prohibited logging in 1987. The indigenous people have created a watershed reserve and agroforestry cooperatives, and maintain forests as part of a resilient livelihood strategy.
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Book Title: Changing Forests
Book Subtitle: Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras
Authors: Catherine M. Tucker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6977-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6976-5Published: 03 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7781-3Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6977-2Published: 13 March 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 258
Topics: Environmental Management, Physical Geography, Environment, general, Nature Conservation, Social Sciences, general, Anthropology