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| Bray, David Barton; Florida International University; brayd@fiu.edu; Duran, Elvira; Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigacion para el Desarrollo Integral Regional, Unidad Oaxaca; eduran3@hotmail.com; Ramos, Victor Hugo; Wildlife Conservation Society-Guatemala; vhramos@wcs.org; Mas, Jean-Francois; Universidad Autonoma de Mexico; jfmas@ciga.unam.mx; Velazquez, Alejandro; Universidad Autonoma de Mexico; avmontes@ciga.unam.mx; McNab, Roan Balas; Wildlife Conservation Society-Guatemala; mcnab@wcs.org; Barry, Deborah; Center for International Forestry Research; dbarry@cgiar.org; Radachowsky, Jeremy; University of Florida; radachowsky@hotmail.com. |
| Community forests and protected areas have each been proposed as strategies to stop deforestation. These management strategies should be regarded as hypotheses to be evaluated for their effectiveness in particular places. We evaluated the community-forestry hypothesis and the protected-area hypothesis in community forests with commercial timber production and strict protected areas in the Maya Forest of Guatemala and Mexico. From land-use and land cover change (LUCC) maps derived from satellite images, we compared deforestation in 19 community forests and 11 protected areas in both countries in varying periods from 1988 to 2005. Deforestation rates were higher in protected areas than in community forests, but the differences were not significant. An... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Community forest management; Guatemala; Land-use and land cover change analysis; Logging; Mexico; Protected areas. |
| Ano: 2008 |
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