A Tale of Two Roads: Land Tenure, Poverty, and Politics on the Guatemalan Frontier
Bibliography B0145
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| Autor(es) | Carr, D. |
| Fecha | Enero 2006 |
| Tipo de referencia | artículo de diario |
| Nombre de la fuente | Geoforum |
| Journal | Vol 37 No 1 |
| Páginas | pp. 94-103 |
| Editorial | Elsevier Science Ltd, UK |
Resumen
Agricultural frontiers are hot spots for the most dramatic land cover change in the history of humankind: forest conversion to agriculture. They are also areas of unusually rapid population growth and acute poverty, with scant access to public services and infrastructure. Although a large body of literature explores the determinants of land cover change on the frontier, one issue that has been largely unstudied is that of frontier political and socio-economic development. This paper reports on data from 28 communities along an agricultural frontier in a core conservation zone of the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), where the predominant land tenure systems at the community level appear to be related not only to land use, but also to political organization and human development indicators.
Temas
Áreas protegidas
Cobertura geográfica
Guatemala
DOI
10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.02.007
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- Department of Geography, University of California, USA (Organisation O0213)