Mexico currently occupies the fifth place in deforestation worldwide . Within this trade 60,000 hectares of both forest and rainforest are lost on a yearly basis through illegal logging. This situation has been the reality for the people in the P\u27urhépecha plateau of Michoacán, where, thanks to a series of legal vacuums, organized crime has found in illegal logging an additional trade to drug trafficking. Nevertheless, through the implementation of an autonomous government based on the P\u27urhépecha uses and customs, the municipality of Cherán is developing novel political and social strategies to control this situation
Globally, illegal logging has been one of the most profitable and fastest-growing types of transnati...
Michoacán, Mexico has become a breeding ground for public corruption, drug trafficking organizations...
Over the past several years, private and public national and international institutions have carried...
Chihuahua is Mexico’s biggest state, and more than a fifth of its 25,000 hectares is forested, mostl...
This paper uses two approaches to estimate illegal volumes and provides arguments to show that timbe...
The forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental are being assaulted on several fronts. The Mexican govern...
In September 2012, and following months of detailed investigations in Latin America, North America a...
Drug trafficking organizations are driving deforestation in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve. Drug...
Summary It has been suggested that weaknesses in rights and land tenure is one of the important caus...
Mexico has been ranked 7th in the world in terms of plant biodiversity in its intact forest ecosyste...
Latin America’s forests are being cut down at an accelerating rate. Asian markets are driving a trad...
In Santander, Colombia, timber traders corrupted regulatory, police and judicial systems on their wa...
On frontiers dominated by illicit activities such as narcotrafficking, criminal organizations’ usurp...
Actually, Mexico is confronting a generalized violence linked to conflicts among drug cartels, the s...
This book provides vast information of the Mexican forests and forest-related conflicts, focusing on...
Globally, illegal logging has been one of the most profitable and fastest-growing types of transnati...
Michoacán, Mexico has become a breeding ground for public corruption, drug trafficking organizations...
Over the past several years, private and public national and international institutions have carried...
Chihuahua is Mexico’s biggest state, and more than a fifth of its 25,000 hectares is forested, mostl...
This paper uses two approaches to estimate illegal volumes and provides arguments to show that timbe...
The forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental are being assaulted on several fronts. The Mexican govern...
In September 2012, and following months of detailed investigations in Latin America, North America a...
Drug trafficking organizations are driving deforestation in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve. Drug...
Summary It has been suggested that weaknesses in rights and land tenure is one of the important caus...
Mexico has been ranked 7th in the world in terms of plant biodiversity in its intact forest ecosyste...
Latin America’s forests are being cut down at an accelerating rate. Asian markets are driving a trad...
In Santander, Colombia, timber traders corrupted regulatory, police and judicial systems on their wa...
On frontiers dominated by illicit activities such as narcotrafficking, criminal organizations’ usurp...
Actually, Mexico is confronting a generalized violence linked to conflicts among drug cartels, the s...
This book provides vast information of the Mexican forests and forest-related conflicts, focusing on...
Globally, illegal logging has been one of the most profitable and fastest-growing types of transnati...
Michoacán, Mexico has become a breeding ground for public corruption, drug trafficking organizations...
Over the past several years, private and public national and international institutions have carried...