Changing Forests Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras /

• Main Author: Tucker, Catherine M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Environment.; Physical geography.; Environmental management.; Nature conservation.; Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Environmental Management.; Physical Geography.; Environment, general.; Nature Conservation.; Social Sciences, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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?.