Back to the people: The role of community-based responses in shaping landscape trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Land use change results from top-down drivers, such as policies, trade, and migration. Land use change may also result from community-based responses. In Mexico, rural communities govern most of the country's forests. This study aimed to assess how socio-economic and biophysical factors affected the...
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| author | Novotny, Ivan P. Fuentes-Ponce, Mariela H. Tittonell, Pablo Adrian Lopez-Ridaura, Santiago Rossing, Walter A.H. |
| author_browse | Fuentes-Ponce, Mariela H. Lopez-Ridaura, Santiago Novotny, Ivan P. Rossing, Walter A.H. Tittonell, Pablo Adrian |
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| description | Land use change results from top-down drivers, such as policies, trade, and migration. Land use change may also result from community-based responses. In Mexico, rural communities govern most of the country's forests. This study aimed to assess how socio-economic and biophysical factors affected the landscape trajectories of rural communities in southern Mexico. It also aimed at evaluating the role of communities in landscape change. Land use change of 63 rural communities was analyzed for the years 1987 and 2017. Four land uses were distinguished: forest, shrubland, agriculture, and bare soil. Five groups of communities were identified according to their socio-economic and biophysical factors. Two groups located in areas with high slopes and elevated marginalization index values showed deforestation patterns. Two other groups, consisting of more than half of the municipalities assessed, showed reforestation trends. The final group did not reveal major changes in land use. Two municipalities with reforestation trends were selected for an in-depth analysis of how community-based responses impacted natural resource management and conservation. Through local assemblies, the population voted for regulations that increased the forest area and reduced the bare soil. There was no evidence that these regulations affected croplands. These results show how a combination of socio-economic and biophysical factors can affect landscape change, but it also shows the often overlooked role of communities as a relevant bottom-up driver of change. |
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| spelling | INTA149272023-08-16T12:32:09Z Back to the people: The role of community-based responses in shaping landscape trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico. Novotny, Ivan P. Fuentes-Ponce, Mariela H. Tittonell, Pablo Adrian Lopez-Ridaura, Santiago Rossing, Walter A.H. Cambio de Uso de la Tierra Reforestación Deforestación Comunidades Rurales Oaxaca Land Use Change Reforestation Deforestation Rural Communities Land use change results from top-down drivers, such as policies, trade, and migration. Land use change may also result from community-based responses. In Mexico, rural communities govern most of the country's forests. This study aimed to assess how socio-economic and biophysical factors affected the landscape trajectories of rural communities in southern Mexico. It also aimed at evaluating the role of communities in landscape change. Land use change of 63 rural communities was analyzed for the years 1987 and 2017. Four land uses were distinguished: forest, shrubland, agriculture, and bare soil. Five groups of communities were identified according to their socio-economic and biophysical factors. Two groups located in areas with high slopes and elevated marginalization index values showed deforestation patterns. Two other groups, consisting of more than half of the municipalities assessed, showed reforestation trends. The final group did not reveal major changes in land use. Two municipalities with reforestation trends were selected for an in-depth analysis of how community-based responses impacted natural resource management and conservation. Through local assemblies, the population voted for regulations that increased the forest area and reduced the bare soil. There was no evidence that these regulations affected croplands. These results show how a combination of socio-economic and biophysical factors can affect landscape change, but it also shows the often overlooked role of communities as a relevant bottom-up driver of change. EEA Bariloche Fil: Novotny, Ivan P. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana; Mexico. Fil: Novotny, Ivan P. Wageningen University and Research. Farming Systems Ecology, Plant Sciences Group; Países Bajos. Fil: Fuentes-Ponce, Mariela H. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco. Departamento de Producción Agrícola y Animal; Mexico Fil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche; Argentina. Fil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche; Argentina. Fil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Universite de Montpellier. Centre de cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement. Agroecologie et Intensification Durable; Francia. Fil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Groningen University. Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Sciences; Países Bajos. Fil: Lopez-Ridaura, Santiago. International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT); Mexico Fil: Rossing, Walter A.H. Wageningen University and Research. Farming Systems Ecology, Plant Sciences Group; Países Bajos. 2023-08-16T12:22:02Z 2023-08-16T12:22:02Z 2021-01 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/14927 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837719324330 0264-8377 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104912 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Elsevier Land Use Policy 100 : art 104912 ( Enero 2021) |
| spellingShingle | Cambio de Uso de la Tierra Reforestación Deforestación Comunidades Rurales Oaxaca Land Use Change Reforestation Deforestation Rural Communities Novotny, Ivan P. Fuentes-Ponce, Mariela H. Tittonell, Pablo Adrian Lopez-Ridaura, Santiago Rossing, Walter A.H. Back to the people: The role of community-based responses in shaping landscape trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico. |
| title | Back to the people: The role of community-based responses in shaping landscape trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico. |
| title_full | Back to the people: The role of community-based responses in shaping landscape trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico. |
| title_fullStr | Back to the people: The role of community-based responses in shaping landscape trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Back to the people: The role of community-based responses in shaping landscape trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico. |
| title_short | Back to the people: The role of community-based responses in shaping landscape trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico. |
| title_sort | back to the people the role of community based responses in shaping landscape trajectories in oaxaca mexico |
| topic | Cambio de Uso de la Tierra Reforestación Deforestación Comunidades Rurales Oaxaca Land Use Change Reforestation Deforestation Rural Communities |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/14927 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837719324330 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104912 |
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