By Catherine M. Tucker
Drawing on ethnographic and archival learn, this publication explores how the indigenous Lenca group of los angeles Campa, Honduras, has conserved and remodeled their communal forests in the course of the stories of colonialism, competition to state-controlled logging, and the hot adoption of export-oriented espresso construction. The publication merges political ecology, collective-action theories, and institutional research to check how the folk and forests have replaced via a number of transitions.
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