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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mathews, Andrew S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Colección:Politics, science, and the environment.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.