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Introduction
Balam Castro currently works at the Institute of Geography, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His most recent publication is 'Análisis de disfuncionalidad institucional de programas de política pública ambiental en la Ciudad de México, 2000-2012 / Analysis of Institutional Dysfunctionality of Environmental Public Policy Programs in Mexico City, 2000-2012'.
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August 2017 - August 2019
August 2011 - August 2015
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The sustainability of management practices in forest ecosystems should provide ecosystem services and maintain the livelihoods that largely depend on the benefits directly derived from forests; but this goal requires various theoretical and analytical approaches. This research aims to develop a conceptual model for sustainable forest management bas...
For community forest enterprises (CFEs) in central Mexico, ‘scaling up’ can be an effective means of achieving the transition to economically attractive and sustainable forest management, but little is known about the potential and challenges that they face in this regard. We used a qualitative case study to evaluate a set of variables that determi...
Multilevel governance (MLG) and co-management are indispensable to sustainable forest management (SFM) and the maintenance of ecosystem services (ES). Through interviews with key external and community actors and workshops in two ejidos in central Mexico, we qualitatively analyzed information on the historical and current uses of forests and the wa...
Community forestry enterprises (CFEs) require regional business planning skills to
establish and maintain business associations at large-scale. The aim of this study was to identify the perception of four CFEs on the limitations and opportunities for
scaling up in CFEs in Central Mexico. We selected four contrasting CFEs of development and social o...
En el presente trabajo se analizan reglas de operación de ocho programas de política pública ambiental aplicados en el suelo de conservación de la Ciudad de México con el fin de demostrar las contradicciones que éstos presentan, y así comprobar que existe disfuncionalidad institucional, que puede llevar a un potencial impacto ambiental. El marco an...
