Land cover change effects from community forest management in Michoacán, Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15545376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pablo J Ordóñez (0000-0001-6799-7624, Inter-American Development Bank, corresponding author), Kathy Baylis (0000-0001-9633-4766, University of California, Santa Barbara), María Isabel Ramírez Ramírez (0000-0002-6738-1165, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 065008-065008 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/accdef |
| OpenAlex | W4366247275 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 43 |
More than half of Mexico’s forests and about a third of the forests of the world are communally owned. Despite this, community forest management (CFM) is the least studied forest management policy, and existing studies have focused on the effects of CFM on deforestation. In this paper, we evaluate the effect of CFM on land cover more broadly, to understand how CFM affects a community’s land use decisions. Mexico’s forestry administration mandates that to legally sell timber, communities must adopt forest management plans designed by a certified forester. In this study, we use differential access to foresters to identify the effect of community management on land cover and deforestation. We find that over time communities that adopt management plans see relatively more primary forest, a limited expansion of the agricultural frontier, and a decrease in deforestation. The decrease in deforestation is economically significant since the economic benefits from the avoided CO 2 emissions alone could far outweigh the costs of adopting the management plans
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Business · Community forestry · Deforestation (computer science · Economics · Environmental resource management · Forest management · Forester · Geography · Land management · Land use · Land use, land-use change and forestry · Natural resource economics · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Environmental Science · Forest Management and Policy · Ecology · Forestry
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |