Water and forests as instruments for sustainable regional development

International Journal of Water

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-79

  Barkin, David ^a   Pailles, Carlos ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE SISTEMAS BIOLÓGICOS   (Mexico)

^b Centro de Soporte Ecologico   (Mexico)

Author keywords

ecotourism; Mexico; Oaxaca; sustainable development; water production

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002279885     PISSN: 14656620     EISSN: 17415322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJW.2000.002052     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Barkin, D. (1998) ‘La producción de agua en México: Aportación campesina al desarrollo de México’, Cuadernos del Desarrollo Rural, No. 40, pp.17–27, Colombia.
2. There is ample evidence to indicate the collection, transportation, and storage of water was extremely important for the survival of Pre -Colombian societies in Mexico and drought may have been the cause of the demise of the Mayan culture in the Yucatan. For an extensive compendium of community experiences involved with local water supplies, refer to UNEP [3] for a global perspective and Agarwal and Narain, [4] for documentation of the Indian case.
3. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (1983) Rain and Stormwater Harvesting in Rural Areas, Cassell, Tycooly, London.
4. Agarwal, A. and Narain, S. (eds.) (1997) Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India’s Traditional Water Harvesting Systems, Fourth Citizens’ Report on the State of India’s Environment, Centre for Science and the Environment, New Delhi.
5. Lansing, J.S. (1991) Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. Lansing offers a discussion of the millenary system on Bali that demonstrates how an appropriate understanding of a traditional system can be combined with modern techniques to raise output.
6. McCully, P. (1996) Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams, Zed Books, London.
7. Barkin, D., Batt, R. and DeWalt, B. (1990) Food vs. Feed: The Global Substitution of Grains in Production, Lynne Rienner Publications, Boulder, Colo.
8. Data collected from the battery of wells that supply water to the coastal areas showed a 26% decline in the levels of the aquifers between 1986 and 1992. Extrapolation of this trend leaves insufficient water for cost-effective pumping in less than a quarter century.
9. The uprising by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in January 1994 is dramatic testimony to the depths of this process and the latent reserve of pride in this endangered heritage.
10. Barkin, D. and Pailles, C. (1999) ‘NGO-community collaboration for ecotourism: a strategy for sustainable regional development’, Tourism, Recreation Research, Vol. 24, No. 2 pp. 1–32.
11. Barkin, D. (1998) Wealth, Poverty and Sustainable Development, Editorial Jus and Centro de Ecologia y Desarrollo, Mexico City.