Institutional Choice, Community, and Struggle: A Case Study of Forest Co-Management in Mexico

TitleInstitutional Choice, Community, and Struggle: A Case Study of Forest Co-Management in Mexico
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2000
AuthorsKlooster D
JournalWorld Development
Volume28
Issue1
Pagination1-20
Source DocumentAccessible with appropriate permission
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San Martin Ocotlán community forest management, Oaxaca, Mexico

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The San Martin Ocotlán forest community encompasses a total of six settlements located in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, of which San Martin Ocotlán is the largest.  The community has de jure rights to 13,000 ha of common property pine and oak forests.  The case study involves a time period from approximately 1958 to the mid to late 1990s and catalogues an action situation involving approximately 3,300 residents organized in circa 600 households, who supplement their subsistence maize farming...
09 Aug 2016