Eduardo García-Frapolli
Biographic Data
| ID | 88706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eduardo García-Frapolli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eduardo |
| FAMILY NAME | García-Frapolli |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA-FRAPOLLI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8278-750X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding forest transitions and lock-ins in Latin American agro-forest frontiers: Aligning theory to practice for accelerating restoration
The agro-forest frontier is the dynamic border between agricultural and forested lands. Drawing on results from an interdisciplinary research programme, we synthesise and compare social-ecological dynamics in three Latin American agro-forest frontiers: Marqués de Comillas and La Sepultura in Mexico, and Zona da Mata in Brazil. Each includes extensive livestock grazing, rain-fed agriculture, secondary vegetation, and state-protected areas. Forest …
Navigating touristification through social entrepreneurship: Community-based tourism in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Touristification has emerged as a defining feature of contemporary tourism development, often subordinating social and economic life to market-driven imperatives. This article examines how Indigenous community-based tourism (CBT) in the highly touristified Yucatan Peninsula articulate alternative tourism models grounded in collective organization and diversified livelihood strategies. Drawing on a qualitative multiple-case study based on semi-str…
Biospheres reserves and social-ecological well-being: The case of Tehuacán-Cuicatlán, Mexico
Biosphere reserves (BRs) have been effective in safeguarding biodiversity, yet their implementation has resulted in contentious outcomes for local communities. In this study, we examine the impact of a BR in southern Mexico on the social-ecological well-being (SEWB) of a peasant community. A total of 38 semi-structured and informal interviews were conducted with local residents and park rangers, and qualitative data collection and analysis method…
Efectos del Promac en el cambio de prácticas agrícolas en el área natural protegida Meseta de Cacaxtla, Sinaloa, México
En este artículo se analizó la implementación del Programa de Conservación de Maíz Criollo (Promac) y sus efectos en el área natural protegida Meseta de Cacaxtla, Sinaloa, mediante entrevistas semiestructuras y análisis de redundancia basado en distancia; se caracterizó el manejo agrícola detallando las acciones de los agricultores en torno al maíz criollo; y se determinó si el programa indujo cambios en las prácticas de los participantes. Los re…
Turismo comunitario y decrecimiento: Hacia un reforzamiento de los medios de vida locales
As tourism, regardless of its modalities, has grown in the Yucatan Peninsula, local communities have been modifying their livelihood strategies towards more specialized tourism strategies. This situation weakens households and communities because it makes them more dependent on external forces and dynamics, modifies their local institutions, further monetizes their local economies, and makes their livelihood strategies less resilient. In this stu…
ReConstruyendo sustentabilidad urbana: Un análisis alternativo de huertos urbanos comunitarios en la Ciudad de México
Los huertos urbanos son cada vez más reconocidos como opciones viables para generar sustentabilidad urbana. Además de producir alimentos y especies vegetales útiles, los huertos urbanos son también una manera de transformar el espacio urbano, de generar comunidad, de innovar socialmente y ser espacios formativos. En esta investigación analizamos, a partir de los planteamientos de la agroecología, la economía social y solidaria y la innovación soc…
Conservation backfire: Local effects of international protected area policy
Contested agricultural landscapes: From an individual to a common issue for stingless beekeepers a case from Veracruz, México
Land use change (LUC) alters habitat quality and the provision of ecosystem services that affect economic activities, such as beekeeping. For beekeeping, landscapes reveal individual decisions that determine its productive potential, thus, landscapes can be considered a common pool resource. To understand how land use preferences shape scenarios that suggest the aggregated effects of decisions on beekeeping in agricultural landscapes, a participa…
Eco-Symbiotic Complementarity and Trading Networks of Natural Resources in Nahua Communities in Mountain Regions of Mexico
Relational values and management of plant resources in two communities in a highly biodiverse area in western Mexico
How does social capital shape the response to environmental disturbances at the local level? Evidence from case studies in Mexico
Beyond participation: How to achieve the recognition of local communities’ value‐systems in conservation? Some insights from Mexico
In this article, we explore why conservation schemes that have positive outcomes through the participation of local communities cannot necessarily be deemed as just. We observe that recognition (understood as inclusion and respect) of local communities’ value‐systems, a key factor towards environmental justice, is not often achieved in conservation governance. We build our argument on the authors’ extensive research on four Mexican forest areas a…
Transversalidad en políticas mexicanas de conservación de la biodiversidad: Coinbio y Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano
El presente trabajo busca identificar elementos y características para el establecimiento de estrategias de colaboración interinstitucional e intersectorial a partir del análisis de dos estudios de caso de conservación de la biodiversidad: el Coinbio y el Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano. En ambos casos, resalta la importancia de la adopción local y la implementación transversal, además de que comparten la participación de las comunidades locales…
City-traditional agriculture dialogues: The ‘Huerta de Murcia’ case study
El papel de la organización social local en el desarrollo del ecoturismo en México: Un estudio comparativo en la Zona Maya de Quintana Roo
Ecotourism, as a community development strategy, seeks to simultaneously achieve conservation and development, but its design does not usually consider the complexity of the local contexts where it is implemented. This study analyzes the role played by the configuration of the local and regional socio-political context in the development of two ecotourism initiatives in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Using qualitative tools, the study com…
Untangling worldwide conflicts in marine protected areas: Five lessons from the five continents
Unraveling households’ natural resource management strategies: A case study in Jalisco, Mexico
The analysis of resource management strategies is considered to be relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems. In Mexico, ejidos are the most important of the land tenure institutions that grant access to resources inside communities. Although it is recognized that an ejido’s internal structure creates different social groups, few studies have explored their resource management strategies. The aim of this study was to characte…
Hybrid, public and private environmental governance: The case of sustainable coastal zone management in Quintana Roo, Mexico
Coastal zones (CZ) are social-ecological systems where rapid forms of economic development are disrupting the existing patterns of relationships, raising challenges for governance. Institutional flexibility, broad participation, multilevel governance, and adaptability have been identified as critical conditions for the governance of social-ecological systems. While the importance of agency, through the substantive participation of private actors …
Ethnoecology of the interchange of wild and weedy plants and mushrooms in Phurépecha markets of Mexico: Economic Motives of Biotic Resources Management
BACKGROUND: Interactions between societies and nature are regulated by complex systems of beliefs, symbolism, customs, and worldviews (kosmos), ecological knowledge (corpus), and management strategies and practices (praxis), which are constructed as product of experiences and communication of people throughout time. These aspects influence social relations, life strategies, and cultural identity, and all of them in turn influence and are influenc…
Unraveling heterogeneity in the importance of ecosystem services: Individual Views of Smallholders
Tauro, A., E. Gómez-Baggethun, E. García-Frapolli, E. Lazos Chavero, and P. Balvanera. 2018. Unraveling heterogeneity in the importance of ecosystem services: individual views of smallholders. Ecology and Society 23(4):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10457-230411
Sociocultural and ecological factors influencing management of edible and non-edible plants: The case of Ixcatlán, Mexico
BACKGROUND: Identifying factors influencing plant management allows understanding how processes of domestication operate. Uncertain availability of resources is a main motivation for managing edible plants, but little is known about management motives of non-edible resources like medicinal and ceremonial plants. We hypothesized that uncertain availability of resources would be a general factor motivating their management, but other motives could …
Ecological variability and rule-making processes for forest management institutions: A social-ecological case study in the Jalisco coast, Mexico
Analysis of social-ecological systems is becoming increasingly used since the framework provides a valuable set of variables for understanding relationships between people and ecosystems. This interaction focuses on the use and management of natural resources that, in many cases, are common-pool resources. In Mexico, common-pool resources have long been explored since at least 60% of the forested lands in the country are held under the legal figu…
Trade-offs between ecosystem services and alternative pathways toward sustainability in a tropical dry forest region
Mora, F., P. Balvanera, E. García-Frapolli, A. Castillo, J. M. Trilleras, D. Cohen-Salgado, and O. Salmerón. 2016. Trade-offs between ecosystem services and alternative pathways toward sustainability in a tropical dry forest region. Ecology and Society 21(4):45. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08691-210445
Responding to disturbances: Lessons from a Mayan socio-ecological system
The Mayans of the Yucatán Peninsula, together with their environment, conform social-ecological systems with adaptation and resilience to natural, political and economic disturbances. In this study, we use the framework of social-ecological systems for describing a mechanism that allows a Mayan community and its natural environment to respond to disturbances over time. We describe (1) the activities that members of the community develop as part o…
Responding to disturbances: Lessons from a Mayan socio-ecological system
The Mayans of the Yucatán Peninsula, together with their environment, conform social-ecological systems with adaptation and resilience to natural, political and economic disturbances. In this study, we use the framework of social-ecological systems for describing a mechanism that allows a Mayan community and its natural environment to respond to disturbances over time. We describe (1) the activities that members of the community develop as part o…
Biodiversity conservation, traditional agriculture and ecotourism: Land cover/land use change projections for a natural protected area in the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Sociocultural and ecological factors influencing management of edible and non-edible plants: The case of Ixcatlán, Mexico
BACKGROUND: Identifying factors influencing plant management allows understanding how processes of domestication operate. Uncertain availability of resources is a main motivation for managing edible plants, but little is known about management motives of non-edible resources like medicinal and ceremonial plants. We hypothesized that uncertain availability of resources would be a general factor motivating their management, but other motives could …
Ethnoecology of the interchange of wild and weedy plants and mushrooms in Phurépecha markets of Mexico: Economic Motives of Biotic Resources Management
BACKGROUND: Interactions between societies and nature are regulated by complex systems of beliefs, symbolism, customs, and worldviews (kosmos), ecological knowledge (corpus), and management strategies and practices (praxis), which are constructed as product of experiences and communication of people throughout time. These aspects influence social relations, life strategies, and cultural identity, and all of them in turn influence and are influenc…
Adaptations of a Yucatec Maya Multiple-Use Ecological Management Strategy to Ecotourism
García-Frapolli, E., V. Toledo, and J. Martinez-Alier. 2008. Adaptations of a Yucatec Maya multiple-use ecological management strategy to ecotourism. Ecology and Society 13(2): 31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02627-130231
El papel de la organización social local en el desarrollo del ecoturismo en México: Un estudio comparativo en la Zona Maya de Quintana Roo
Ecotourism, as a community development strategy, seeks to simultaneously achieve conservation and development, but its design does not usually consider the complexity of the local contexts where it is implemented. This study analyzes the role played by the configuration of the local and regional socio-political context in the development of two ecotourism initiatives in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Using qualitative tools, the study com…
The complex reality of biodiversity conservation through Natural Protected Area policy: Three cases from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Unraveling heterogeneity in the importance of ecosystem services: Individual Views of Smallholders
Tauro, A., E. Gómez-Baggethun, E. García-Frapolli, E. Lazos Chavero, and P. Balvanera. 2018. Unraveling heterogeneity in the importance of ecosystem services: individual views of smallholders. Ecology and Society 23(4):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10457-230411
Fostering Traditional Yucatec Maya Management of Natural Resources through Microcredits: A Community Case Study
In this research we show the way in which a small Yucatec Mayan community conducts a diversified management strategy of its natural resources, as well as how this strategy is supplemented and financed by microfinance. The local description of the ecological process of succession was used for describing the strategy of nature appropriation. Network analysis was used for studying how productive activities are correlated, depending on households hav…
City-traditional agriculture dialogues: The ‘Huerta de Murcia’ case study
Ecological variability and rule-making processes for forest management institutions: A social-ecological case study in the Jalisco coast, Mexico
Analysis of social-ecological systems is becoming increasingly used since the framework provides a valuable set of variables for understanding relationships between people and ecosystems. This interaction focuses on the use and management of natural resources that, in many cases, are common-pool resources. In Mexico, common-pool resources have long been explored since at least 60% of the forested lands in the country are held under the legal figu…
Biodiversity conservation, traditional agriculture and ecotourism: Land cover/land use change projections for a natural protected area in the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Adaptations of a Yucatec Maya Multiple-Use Ecological Management Strategy to Ecotourism
García-Frapolli, E., V. Toledo, and J. Martinez-Alier. 2008. Adaptations of a Yucatec Maya multiple-use ecological management strategy to ecotourism. Ecology and Society 13(2): 31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02627-130231
The complex reality of biodiversity conservation through Natural Protected Area policy: Three cases from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Beyond fuelwood savings: Valuing the economic benefits of introducing improved biomass cookstoves in the Purépecha region of Mexico
Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win‐win solutions
In this commentary we critically discuss the suitability of payments for ecosystem services and the most important challenges they face. While such instruments can play a role in improving environmental governance, we argue that over‐reliance on payments as win‐win solutions might lead to ineffective outcomes, similar to earlier experience with integrated conservation and development projects. Our objective is to raise awareness, particularly amo…
Fostering Traditional Yucatec Maya Management of Natural Resources through Microcredits: A Community Case Study
In this research we show the way in which a small Yucatec Mayan community conducts a diversified management strategy of its natural resources, as well as how this strategy is supplemented and financed by microfinance. The local description of the ecological process of succession was used for describing the strategy of nature appropriation. Network analysis was used for studying how productive activities are correlated, depending on households hav…
Responding to disturbances: Lessons from a Mayan socio-ecological system
The Mayans of the Yucatán Peninsula, together with their environment, conform social-ecological systems with adaptation and resilience to natural, political and economic disturbances. In this study, we use the framework of social-ecological systems for describing a mechanism that allows a Mayan community and its natural environment to respond to disturbances over time. We describe (1) the activities that members of the community develop as part o…
Responding to disturbances: Lessons from a Mayan socio-ecological system
The Mayans of the Yucatán Peninsula, together with their environment, conform social-ecological systems with adaptation and resilience to natural, political and economic disturbances. In this study, we use the framework of social-ecological systems for describing a mechanism that allows a Mayan community and its natural environment to respond to disturbances over time. We describe (1) the activities that members of the community develop as part o…
Ecological variability and rule-making processes for forest management institutions: A social-ecological case study in the Jalisco coast, Mexico
Analysis of social-ecological systems is becoming increasingly used since the framework provides a valuable set of variables for understanding relationships between people and ecosystems. This interaction focuses on the use and management of natural resources that, in many cases, are common-pool resources. In Mexico, common-pool resources have long been explored since at least 60% of the forested lands in the country are held under the legal figu…
Trade-offs between ecosystem services and alternative pathways toward sustainability in a tropical dry forest region
Mora, F., P. Balvanera, E. García-Frapolli, A. Castillo, J. M. Trilleras, D. Cohen-Salgado, and O. Salmerón. 2016. Trade-offs between ecosystem services and alternative pathways toward sustainability in a tropical dry forest region. Ecology and Society 21(4):45. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08691-210445
Sociocultural and ecological factors influencing management of edible and non-edible plants: The case of Ixcatlán, Mexico
BACKGROUND: Identifying factors influencing plant management allows understanding how processes of domestication operate. Uncertain availability of resources is a main motivation for managing edible plants, but little is known about management motives of non-edible resources like medicinal and ceremonial plants. We hypothesized that uncertain availability of resources would be a general factor motivating their management, but other motives could …
Ethnoecology of the interchange of wild and weedy plants and mushrooms in Phurépecha markets of Mexico: Economic Motives of Biotic Resources Management
BACKGROUND: Interactions between societies and nature are regulated by complex systems of beliefs, symbolism, customs, and worldviews (kosmos), ecological knowledge (corpus), and management strategies and practices (praxis), which are constructed as product of experiences and communication of people throughout time. These aspects influence social relations, life strategies, and cultural identity, and all of them in turn influence and are influenc…
Unraveling heterogeneity in the importance of ecosystem services: Individual Views of Smallholders
Tauro, A., E. Gómez-Baggethun, E. García-Frapolli, E. Lazos Chavero, and P. Balvanera. 2018. Unraveling heterogeneity in the importance of ecosystem services: individual views of smallholders. Ecology and Society 23(4):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10457-230411
Untangling worldwide conflicts in marine protected areas: Five lessons from the five continents
Unraveling households’ natural resource management strategies: A case study in Jalisco, Mexico
The analysis of resource management strategies is considered to be relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems. In Mexico, ejidos are the most important of the land tenure institutions that grant access to resources inside communities. Although it is recognized that an ejido’s internal structure creates different social groups, few studies have explored their resource management strategies. The aim of this study was to characte…
Hybrid, public and private environmental governance: The case of sustainable coastal zone management in Quintana Roo, Mexico
Coastal zones (CZ) are social-ecological systems where rapid forms of economic development are disrupting the existing patterns of relationships, raising challenges for governance. Institutional flexibility, broad participation, multilevel governance, and adaptability have been identified as critical conditions for the governance of social-ecological systems. While the importance of agency, through the substantive participation of private actors …
How does social capital shape the response to environmental disturbances at the local level? Evidence from case studies in Mexico
Beyond participation: How to achieve the recognition of local communities’ value‐systems in conservation? Some insights from Mexico
In this article, we explore why conservation schemes that have positive outcomes through the participation of local communities cannot necessarily be deemed as just. We observe that recognition (understood as inclusion and respect) of local communities’ value‐systems, a key factor towards environmental justice, is not often achieved in conservation governance. We build our argument on the authors’ extensive research on four Mexican forest areas a…
Transversalidad en políticas mexicanas de conservación de la biodiversidad: Coinbio y Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano
El presente trabajo busca identificar elementos y características para el establecimiento de estrategias de colaboración interinstitucional e intersectorial a partir del análisis de dos estudios de caso de conservación de la biodiversidad: el Coinbio y el Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano. En ambos casos, resalta la importancia de la adopción local y la implementación transversal, además de que comparten la participación de las comunidades locales…
City-traditional agriculture dialogues: The ‘Huerta de Murcia’ case study
El papel de la organización social local en el desarrollo del ecoturismo en México: Un estudio comparativo en la Zona Maya de Quintana Roo
Ecotourism, as a community development strategy, seeks to simultaneously achieve conservation and development, but its design does not usually consider the complexity of the local contexts where it is implemented. This study analyzes the role played by the configuration of the local and regional socio-political context in the development of two ecotourism initiatives in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Using qualitative tools, the study com…
Eco-Symbiotic Complementarity and Trading Networks of Natural Resources in Nahua Communities in Mountain Regions of Mexico
Relational values and management of plant resources in two communities in a highly biodiverse area in western Mexico
ReConstruyendo sustentabilidad urbana: Un análisis alternativo de huertos urbanos comunitarios en la Ciudad de México
Los huertos urbanos son cada vez más reconocidos como opciones viables para generar sustentabilidad urbana. Además de producir alimentos y especies vegetales útiles, los huertos urbanos son también una manera de transformar el espacio urbano, de generar comunidad, de innovar socialmente y ser espacios formativos. En esta investigación analizamos, a partir de los planteamientos de la agroecología, la economía social y solidaria y la innovación soc…
Conservation backfire: Local effects of international protected area policy
Geography (25 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (18 works) · Environmental resource management (18 works) · Ecology (17 works) · Economics (15 works) · Biology (12 works) · Business (12 works) · Environmental planning (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (7 works)