Socioeconomic context of land use and land cover change in Mexican biosphere reserves

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 180-191

  Figueroa, Fernanda ^a   Sánchez Cordero, Víctor ^a   Meave, Jorge A ^a   Trejo, Irma ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Biodiversity conservation; Cattle density; Conservation effectiveness; Deforestation; Development; Natural protected areas; Population; Socioeconomic marginality; Socioenvironmental analysis

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; BIOSPHERE RESERVE; CATTLE DENSITY; CENSUS DATA; CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT; ECOREGIONS; HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE; LINEAR CORRELATION; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; PROTECTED AREAS; RATE OF CHANGE; RESERVE MANAGEMENT; ROAD DENSITY; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SMALL POPULATION; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSPHERICS; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMICS; LAND USE; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGIONAL PLANNING; ROADS AND STREETS; RURAL AREAS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; BIOSPHERE; CATTLE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; POPULATION GROWTH; PROTECTED AREA; ROAD; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

BOS;

EID: 77951133063     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892909990221     Document Type: Article

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