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 int...
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doaj-b6f80b1e6f824588a9c7b7b3e9b0eff22021-03-02T16:11:15ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEcosystems and People2639-59162020-01-0116117518710.1080/26395916.2020.17672131767213Unraveling households’ natural resource management strategies: a case study in Jalisco, MexicoSofía Monroy-Sais0Eduardo García-Frapolli1Francisco Mora2Margaret Skutsch3Alejandro Casas4Peter R. W. Gerritsen5Daniel Cohen-Salgado6Oscar Ugartechea-Salmerón7Universidad Nacional Autónoma De MéxicoUniversidad Nacional Autónoma De MéxicoUniversidad Nacional Autónoma De MéxicoUniversidad Nacional Autónoma De MéxicoUniversidad Nacional Autónoma De MéxicoUniversidad De GuadalajaraUniversidad Nacional Autónoma De MéxicoUniversidad Nacional Autónoma De MéxicoThe 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 characterize natural resource management strategies in two ejidos in a highly biodiverse region on the southern coast of Jalisco, Mexico. We sought to identify differences in strategies and the variables that explain these differences. We took the household as the unit of analysis, and conducted 55 structured interviews that tackled different aspects of households’ productive activities and natural resource management. We used cluster and ordination analyses to generate a typology of natural resources management strategies, and linear models to identify the variables that differed among groups. The results show that four different natural resources management strategies were strongly associated with differences in land tenure and the type of ecosystem that a household manages. This information can help us to enhance and diversify strategies for sustaining both ecosystems and community livelihoods.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2020.1767213marta berbés-blázques |
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Sofía Monroy-Sais Eduardo García-Frapolli Francisco Mora Margaret Skutsch Alejandro Casas Peter R. W. Gerritsen Daniel Cohen-Salgado Oscar Ugartechea-Salmerón Unraveling households’ natural resource management strategies: a case study in Jalisco, Mexico Ecosystems and People marta berbés-blázques |
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Sofía Monroy-Sais Eduardo García-Frapolli Francisco Mora Margaret Skutsch Alejandro Casas Peter R. W. Gerritsen Daniel Cohen-Salgado Oscar Ugartechea-Salmerón |
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Unraveling households’ natural resource management strategies: a case study in Jalisco, Mexico |
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Unraveling households’ natural resource management strategies: a case study in Jalisco, Mexico |
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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 characterize natural resource management strategies in two ejidos in a highly biodiverse region on the southern coast of Jalisco, Mexico. We sought to identify differences in strategies and the variables that explain these differences. We took the household as the unit of analysis, and conducted 55 structured interviews that tackled different aspects of households’ productive activities and natural resource management. We used cluster and ordination analyses to generate a typology of natural resources management strategies, and linear models to identify the variables that differed among groups. The results show that four different natural resources management strategies were strongly associated with differences in land tenure and the type of ecosystem that a household manages. This information can help us to enhance and diversify strategies for sustaining both ecosystems and community livelihoods. |
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