Maya environmental successes and failures in the Yucatan Peninsula

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 4, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 153-169

  Faust, Betty Bernice ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Climate change; Indigenous peoples; Maya (Yucat n Peninsula, Middle America); Resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038845392     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1462-9011(01)00026-0     Document Type: Article

References (126)

1. Acosta, J.de., 1881. The Natural and Moral History of the Indies (C. Markham, Trans. London, UK: Hakluyt Society, ser. 1, no. 60; original work published 1590).
2. Anderson, E., 1995. Gardens of Chunhuhub, Paper Presented at the Third International Congress of Mayanists, Chetumal, QR, Mexico.
3. Andrews, A., 2001. Personal communication.
4. Andrews, E. IV, Andrews, E.V., 1980. Excavations at Dzibilchaltún, Yucatán: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane U....n.iversity, Mexico. New Orleans, LA.
5. Andrews, E., Ringle, W., Barnes, P., Barrera, A., Gallareta, T., 1984. Komchen: an early maya city in Northwest Yucatan. Investigaciones Recientes en el Area Maya, 1: 73-92. (Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologïa, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, XXVII Mesa Redonda).
6. Aveni A. Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico. 1980;University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.
7. Botkin B. Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-first Century. 1990;171-201 Oxford University Press, New York.
8. Brendt, H., 1979. Peasant Work Capacity and Agricultural Development. Occasional Papers, German Development Institute, Berlin, Germany.
9. Bromley D.W. Making the Commons Work: Theory, Practice, and Policy. 1992;Institute for Conteporary Studies Press, San Francisco, CA.
10. Bullard W.R. Jr. Postclassic culture in Central Petén (Guatemala) and adjacent British Honduras (Belize). Culbert T.P. The Classic Maya Collapse. 1973;University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.
11. Burns A. An Epoch of Miracles: Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya. 1983;University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.
12. Carroll C., Kane D. Landscape ecology of transformed neotropical environments. Hatch U., Swisher M. Managed Ecosystems: the Mesoamerican Experience. 1999;70-77 Oxford University Press, New York.
13. Carter, G., 1971. Anthropological Journal of Canada. Crumlely, C., 1994. Historical Ecology: Cultural Knowledge and Changing Landscapes. School of American Research, Advanced Seminar Series, Santa Fe, NM.
14. Chambers, R., 1987. Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: A Strategy for People Environment and Development. Commissioned Study no. 7. London: Institute of Development Studies.
15. Chambers R., Pacey A., Thrupp L.A. Farmer First: Farmer Innovation and Agricultural Research. 1989;Intermediate Technology Publications, London.
16. Clay J. Indigenous Peoples and Tropical Forests: Models of Land Use and Management from Latin America. 1988;Cultural Survival, Cambridge, MA.
17. Collier G. Fields of Tzotzil: The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Guatemala. 1975;University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.
18. Craine E., Reindorp R. The Codex Pérez and the Book of Chilam Balam of Maní 1979;University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. as cited in Gill (2000).
19. Crosby A. The Colombian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. 1972;Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.
20. Crosby A. Ecological Imperialism. 1986;Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
21. Culbert T. The Classic Maya Collapse. 1973;University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.
22. Culbert T. Maya development and collapse: an economic perspective. Hammond N. Social Process in Maya Prehistory: Studies in Honor of J. Eric Thompson. 1977;Academic Press, London.
23. Culbert T., Rice D. Pre-Columbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands. 1990;University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.
24. Dahlberg K.A. The industrial model and its impacts on small farmers. The Green Revolution as a case. Altieri M., Hecht S.B. Agroecology and Small Farm Development. 1990;83-90 CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
25. Dahlin B. Climate and prehistory on the Yucatan Peninsula. Climatic Change. 5:1983;245-263.
26. Dewar E. Cloak of Green: The Links Between Key Environmental Groups, Government and Big Business. 1995;James Lorimer, Toronto.
27. Dompka V. Human Population, Biodiversity and Protected Areas: Science and Policy Issues. 1995;American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC.
28. Dunning N. A reexamination of regional variability in the prehistoric agricultural landscape. Fedick S. The Managed Mosaic. 1996;University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT.
29. Elias Gramajo, S., 1997. Auto-gestiön Comunitaria de Recursos Naturales: Estudio de Caso en Totonicapán. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, Programa Guatemala, Debate no. 37. Guatemala, Fondo de Cultural Editorial, Guatemala.
30. Ericson, J., 1998. Personal communication.
31. Evans-Pritchard E.D. The Nuer. 1940;Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK.
32. Faust, B., 1988. Cosmology and Changing Technologies of the Campeche Maya. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, p. 435.
33. Faust B. Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico. 1998;Bergin and Harvey, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT.
34. Faust B., Bilsborrow R. Maya culture, population and the environment in the Yucatan Peninsula. Lutz W., Prieto L., Sanderson W. Population-Environment Interactions on the Yucatan Peninsula. 2000;73-107 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg. Chapter 4.
35. Faust, B., Gunn, J., in press. Cultural Memory of Changing Climate in a Lowland Maya Village.
36. Faust, B., Morales-López, A., 1993. Village water management in the oral histories of Pich, Campeche. Paper presented in the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico.
37. Folan W., Faust B., Lutz W., Gunn J. Social and environmental factors in the classic Maya collapse. Lutz W., Prieto L., Sanderson W. Population-Environment Interactions on the Yucatan Peninsula. 2000;2-32 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg. Chapter 1.
38. Folan W., Fletcher L., Kintz E. Fruit, fiber, bark, and resin: social organization of a Maya Urban center. Science. 204:(4394):1979;697-701.
39. Folan W., Hyde B. Climatic forecasting and recording among the ancient and historic Maya: an ethno-historic approach to epistemological and paleoclimatological patterning. Folan W. Contributions to the Archeologhy and Ethnohistory of Greater Mesoamerica. 1985;S. Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL. Essays in Honor of C.L. Riley.
40. Gallopin G. Water Storage Technology at Tikal, Guatemala. 1990;University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
41. García, A., Eastmond, A., Córdoba, J., 1996. Informe sobre el Estado de la Población 1970-1995. Working Paper, Proyecto Población y Desarrollo Sustentable en Yucatán CINVESTAV, CONAPO, y IIASA.
42. Gates M. In Default: Peasants, the Debt Crisis, and the Agricultural Challenge in Mexico. 1993;Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
43. Geertz C. Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia. 1963;University Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles.
44. Greertz C. Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. 1983;Basic Books, New York.
45. Gill R.B. The Great Maya Droughts: Water, Life and Death. 2000;University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.
46. Gómez-Pompa A. On Maya silviculure. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. 3:(1):1987;1-17.
47. Gómez-Pompa A., Flores S., Sosa V. The "Pet Kot": a man-made tropical forest of the Maya. Interciencia. 12:(1):1987;10-15.
48. Gómez-Pompa, A., Kaus, A., Jiménez-Osornio, J., Bainbridge, D., Rorive, V., 1993. In: National Research Council (Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics) Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics, National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
49. Gossen G. Chamulas in the World of the Sun: Time and Space in a Maya Oral Tradition. 1974;Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
50. Gossen G. From Olmecs to Zapatistas: a once and future history of souls. American Anthropologist. 96:(3):1994;553-570.
51. Greaves, T., ed. 1994. Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Source Book. Society for Applied Anthropology, Oklahoma City, OK.
52. Green, D., 1984. Metaphor as Process, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas, Dallas, TX.
53. Gunn J.D., Folan W.J. Three rivers: Subregion global climate response surface for the southwestern Maya lowlands (Candelaria, Usumacinta, and Champotón watersheds). McIntosh R., McIntosh S., Tainter J. Global Climate Change and Cultural Memory. 2000;Columbia University Press, New York.
54. Gunn J.D., Folan W.J., Robichaux H.R. A landscape analysis of the Candelaria watershed in Mexico: Insights into paleoclimates affecting upland horticulture in the southern Yucatan peninsula semi-karst. Geoarcheology. 10:(1):1995;3-42.
55. Gupta A. Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India. 1995;Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
56. Hale L. A dynamic simulation model of population impacts on the environment a fisheries model. Lutz W., Prieto L., Sanderson W. Population-Environment Interactions on the Yucatan Peninsula. 2000;73-107 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg.
57. Hamblin N. Animal Use by the Cozumel Maya. 1984;University of Arizona Press, Tuscson, AZ.
58. Hansen R. Excavations in the Tigre Complex, El Mirador, Petén, Guatemala. 1990;New World Archaeological Foundation, Bringham Young University, Provo, UT.
59. Hammond N. Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize. 1991;Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
60. Hardin G. The tragedy of the commons. Science. 162:1968;1243-1248.
61. Hernández de Córdoba, F., 1942 (orig. 1500s). The Discovery of Yucatan, The Cortez Society, Whittier, CA (Trans. Wagner, H.).
62. Hodell D.A., Curtis J.H., Brenner M. Possible role of climate in the collapse of classic Maya civilization. Nature. 375:1995;391-394.
63. Humboldt, A.von., 1811. Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, III, 53. London (as cited in Langdon, 1989).
64. Jacob J.S. Ancient Maya wetland agricultural fields in Cobweb Swamp, Belize: construction, chronology and function. Journal of Field Archeology. 22:1995;175-190.
65. Johannessen C. Folk medicine uses of Melanotic Asiatic chickens as evidence of early diffusion to the new world. Social Science and Medicine. 15D:1981;427-434.
66. Joseph G. Rediscovering the past at Mexico's Periphery: Essays on the Modern Yucatan University. 1986;University of Alabama Press, AL, USA.
67. King S. Conservation and tropical medicinal plant reseach. Balick M., Elisabetsk E., Laird S. Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest. 1996;Columbia University Press, New York.
68. Kintz E. Life Under the Tropical Canopy: Tradition and Change Among the Yucatec Maya. 1990;Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.
69. Landa, D.de., 1941. Landa's Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán Papers Peabody Mus., Harvard University, vol. 18, Cambridge, MA (Trans. edited and with notes by Tozzer, A.M.).
70. Landa, D.de., 1566. The Maya, J. Philip O'Hara, Chicago, IL (as cited by Gill, 2000), (Trans. of Relación de las cosas de Yucatán).
71. Langdon R. When the blue-egg chickens come home to roost. Journal of Pacific History. 24:1989;164-192.
72. Las Casas, B. de., 1961 (orig. 1500s). Obras Escogidas II: Historia de las Indias. In: Biblioteca de Autores Españoles. Madrid, Spain vol. 96, pp. 56-57 (as cited in Langdon, 1989).
73. Lansing J. Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali. 1991;Princeton University Press, Princeton, NY.
74. Lowe J. The Dynamics of Apocalypse. 1985;University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.
75. Manno, J., 2000. Privileged Goods: Commoditization and its Impact on Environment and Society (Ecological Economics Series). Lewis: Boca Raton, FL, (International Society for Ecological Economics).
76. March I. Los Lacandones de México y su Relación con los Mamiferos Silvestres: Un Estudio Etnozoologico. Biótica. 12:(1):1987;43-56.
77. Margolies R., Salafsky N. Measures of Success: Designing, Managing, and Monitoring Conservation and Development Projects. 1998;Island Press, Washington, DC.
78. Matheny, R.T., 1978. Northern Maya lowland water-control systems. In: Harrison, P., Turner B., (Eds.), Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.
79. Matheny R. Ancient lowland and highland Maya water and soil conservation strategies. Flannery K. Maya Subsistence: Studies in Honor of Dennis E. Puleston. 1982;157-178 Academic Press, NY.
80. Matheny, R.T., Gurr, D.L., Forsyth, D.W., Hauck, F.R., 1983. Investigactions at Edzná, Campeche, Mexico: The Hydraulic System, Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, no. 46, Brigham Young University Press, Provo, UT.
81. Matheny R.T. Investigations at El Mirador, Petén, Guatemala. National Geographic Research. 2:1986;3332-3352.
82. McAnany P. Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society. 1989;University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.
83. McCay, B., Acheson, J. (Eds.), 1996 (orig. 1987). The Question of the Commons, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
84. Meggers B. Environmental Limitation on the Development of Culture. American Anthropologist. 56:1954;801-824.
85. Merrill-Sands, D.M., 1984. The Mixed Subsistence-Commercial Production System in the Peasant Economy of Yucatan, Mexico. An Anthropological Study in Commercial Beekeeping. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University.
86. Moran, E., (Ed.), 1990. The Ecosystem Approach in Anthropology, From Concept to Practice. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
87. Nations J., Nigh R. The evolutionary potential of Lacandon Maya sustained yield tropical forest agriculture. Journal of Anthropological Research. 36:(1):1980;1-30.
88. National Research Council (Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics), 1993. Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics, National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
89. Painter, M., Durham, W.H. (Eds.). The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995.
90. Pinkerton E.W. Summary and Conclusions. Folk Management in the World's Fisheries: Lessons for Modern Fisheries Mangement. 1994;317-337 University of Colorado Press, Niwot, Colorado.
91. Pohl M.D., Pope K.O., Jones J.G., Jacob J.S., Piperno D.R., de France S.D., Lantz D.L., Gifford J.A., Danforth M.E., Josserand J.K. Early agriculture in the Maya lowlands. Latin American Antiquity. 7:(4):1996;355-372.
92. Pohl M.D., Bloom P., Pope K. Interpretations of wetland farming in northern Belize: excavations at San Antonio, Río Hondo. Pohl M.D. Ancient Maya Wetland Agriculture: Excavations on Albion Island, Northern Belize. 1990;187-278 University of Minnesota Publications in Anthropology and Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
93. Pollock H., Roys R., Proskouriakoff T., Smith A. Mayapán, Yucatán, México. 1962;Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC.
94. Primack R., Bray D., Galleti J., Ponciano I. Timber, Tourists, and Temples: Conservation and Development in the Maya Forest of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. 1998;Island Press, Washington, DC.
95. Pyburn K. The political economy of ancient Maya land use: the road to ruin. Fedick S. The Managed Mosaic: Ancient Maya Agriculture and Resource Use. 1996;236-247 University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT.
96. Rappaport, R. 2000. (orig. 1968, orig. 2nd edn., 1984). Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People. Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, IL.
97. Redfield R., Villa Rojas A. Chan Kom: A Maya Village. 1934;Carnegie Institution, Washington, DC. Publication 448.
98. Redford, K.H., 1990. The ecologically noble savage. Orion Summer, 24-29.
99. Redford K.H. The ecologically noble savage. Cultural Survival Quarterly. 15:1991;46-48.
100. Redford K.H. The empty forest. Bioscience. 42:1992;412-422.
101. Redford, K.H., 1996. Getting to conservation. In: Redoford, K.H., Mansor, J.A. (Eds.), Traditonal Peoples and Biodiversity Conservation in Large Tropical Landscapes, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, pp. 251-265.
102. Redford, K.H., Mansour, J.A. (Eds.), 1996. Traditional Peoples and Biodiversity Conservation in Large Tropical Landscapes. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA.
103. Rice P. Macanché Island, El Petén, Guatemala: Excavations, Pottery, and Artifacts. 1987;University of Florida Press, Gainesville, FL.
104. Rosado-May, F.J., 1991. Ecological Role of Wild Mustard (Brassica Kaber [D.C., L.C. Wheeler]) in the Management of Soil-Pathogenic Fungi and Nematodes in a Corn Agroecosystem. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
105. Sanders W., Murdy C. Cultural evolution and ecological succession in the valley of Guatemala. Flannery K. Maya Subsistence: Studies in Honor of Dennis Puleston. 1982;19-63 Academic Press, New York.
106. Sabloff J. The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya. 1990;Scientific American Library (HPHLP), New York.
107. Scarborough V. Flow of Power: Water Reservoirs Controlled the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Maya. Science. 32:1992;38-43.
108. Scarborough V. Water management in the southern Maya lowlands: an acretive model for the engineered landscape. Scarborough V., Isaac B. Economic Aspects of Water Management in the Prehispanic New World. 1993;17-70 JAI Press, Greenwich, CT.
109. Scarborough V., Gallopin A. Water Storage Adaptation in the Maya Lowlands. Science. 251:(4):1994;658-662.
110. Scholes F., Roys R. The Maya Chontal Indians of Acalan-Tixchel: A Contribution to the History and Ethnography of the Yucatán Peninsula. 1968;University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK.
111. Schwartz N. Forest Society: A Social History of Peten, Guatemala. 1990;University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA.
112. Sharer R. The Ancient Maya. 1994;Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
113. Siemens A., Puleston D. Ridged fields and associated features in southwestern Campeche: new perspectives on the lowland Maya. American Antiquity. 37:(2):1972;228-239.
114. Simonian L. Defending the Land of the Jaguar: A History of Conservation in Mexico. 1995;University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.
115. Sonnenfeld D.A. Mexico's "green revolution," 1940-1980: towards an environmental history. Environmental History Review. 16:(4):1992;29-52.
116. Terán, S., Rasmussen, C., 1994. La Milpa de los Mayas., Mérida, Yucatán, México: DANIDA-CICY.
117. Terán S., Rasmussen C. Genetic diversity and agricultural strategy in 16th century and present-day Yucatecan milpa agriculture. Biodiversity and Conservation. 4:1995;363-381.
118. Thompson, E.H., 1897. The Cultunes of Labna, Yucatan. Report of the Explorations by the Museum 1888-89 and 1890-91, vol. 1, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Peabody Museum.
119. Thompson J.E. Maya History and Religion. 1970;University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK.
120. Turner B.L. II. Once Beneath the Forest: Prehistoric Terracing in the Rio Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands. 1983;Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
121. Turner V. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. 1967;Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.
122. Turner V. Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society. 1974;Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.
123. Veblen, T.T., 1975. The Ecological, Cultural, and Historical Bases of Forest Preservation in Totnicapan, Guatemala. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, CA (Univ. Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI).
124. Villagutierre, S.M., Don J. de., 1933 (orig. 1701). Historia de la Conquista de la Provincia de el Itzá, Guatemala. Biblioteca "Goathemala" de la Sociedad de Geografía e Historia. vol. 9, Guatemala: Tipografía Nacional.
125. Vogt E. Tortillas for the Gods: Symbolic Analysis of Zinacanteco Rituals. 1976;Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
126. Zizumbo, V., Simá, P., 1988. Prácticas de Roza-tumba-quema en la Agricultura Maya-Yucateca y su Papel en la Regeneración de la Selva. In: Uribe, R. (Ed.), Medio Ambiente y Comunidades Indígenas del Sureste. Gobierno de Tabasco y UNESCO.