Beyond deforestation: the social context of forest change in two Indigenous communities in Highland Mexico. KLOOSTER, D. Yearbook. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 26:47–59, 2000. ![Beyond deforestation: the social context of forest change in two Indigenous communities in Highland Mexico [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex Narratives of environmental change can overwhelm analysis and interpretation. "Deforestation," for example, usually communicates a unilinear process of agricultural expansion and biomass mining. Using participant observation, aerial photographs, and forest inventories, this article analyzes the social context of forest change in two neighboring indigenous communities in the Lake Patzcuaro Basin, central western Mexico. Deforestation statistics and drastic deficits between fuel wood demand and growth rates suggest severe environmental degradation in this region and in these communities, but case study results show an increase in tree cover and unexpected changes to forest composition. These are related to agricultural abandonment and the ecological effect of selective woodcutting.
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