Village-scale reserves in the forest frontier regions of Chenes and Calakmul,Mexico |
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Authors: | John Kelly |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Geography and Earth Science, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse , La Crosse, WI, USA jkelly@uwlax.edu |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT Sketch-map-facilitated interviews were conducted in 23 villages in two adjacent regions in the southern Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico – the Maya (and increasingly Mennonite) forest-agriculture mosaic of the Chenes, and the late-20th-century-settlement forest frontier of Calakmul – to determine the frequency and typology of local-scale reserves, including the external (e.g. Payments for Environmental Services programs) and internal sources of their generation. 9% of the study communities are found to satisfy the author’s criteria for deliberate, autochthonous reserves. The static polygon reserve and static map are found to have limited value for understanding the evolving cultural ecologies of these regions. Alternative approaches are discussed, particularly those employed by geographers. |
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Keywords: | Protected areas payment for environmental services (PES) Yucatán forest frontier |
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