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Main Title Changing Forests Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras / [electronic resource] :
Type EBOOK
Author Tucker, Catherine M.
Publisher Springer Netherlands,
Year Published 2008
Call Number GE1-350
ISBN 9781402069772
Subjects Environmental sciences ; Geography ; Life sciences ; Nature Conservation ; Social sciences ; Anthropology
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6977-2
Collation XVI, 258 p. online resource.
Notes Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes People and Forests in Historical Perspective -- Governing the Commons and Making a Living -- Logging Comes to La Campa: State Intervention, Forest Transformation, and Collective Action -- Common-Property Transformations and Market Integration -- Coffee Culture, Crisis, and Adaptation -- Changing Lives, Changing Forests: Many Ways to Build a Future?. 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. It studies the complex, often contradictory relationships between the people and their natural resources to understand why forest cover endures. The discussion of social and forest transformations in La Campa focuses on the past three decades, but the context for understanding the Lenca people and their forest use stretches over 500 years. Although the historical record has many gaps, the initial conditions for human-forest relationships were established in the colonial period, when La Campa was founded and processes of conquest ruptured the social fabric. "Changing Forests" therefore encompasses 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. La Campa has been recognized by the Honduran government for its forest conservation efforts.
Place Published Dordrecht
Corporate Au Added Ent SpringerLink (Online service)
Host Item Entry Springer eBooks
PUB Date Free Form 2008
BIB Level m
Medium computer
Content text
Carrier online resource
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
OCLC Time Stamp 20140711023321
Language eng
Origin SPRINGER
Type EBOOK
OCLC Rec Leader 04168nam a22005055i 45