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The Maya Forest Waterlands: Shared Conservation, Entangled Politics, and Fluid Borders by Hanna Laako, Edith Kauffer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This book examines the entanglements and blurred edges of nature conservation and geopolitical relations in the borderlands of the trinational Maya Forest.-Maya Forest is an umbrella term for transboundary conservation developed by scientists and conservationists in the 1990s to protect the threatened rainforest in the borderlands of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. Currently, the Maya Forest is a biodiversity hotspot composed of a network of protected areas and heritage sites. However, issues related to water, land, and forests have often been treated as separate political units, and not as part of the same history.-Written by two authors with decades of hands-on experience in this region, this book sheds light on the complex dynamics by which conservation and natural resource management geopolitically shape borderlands such as the Maya Forest. The book introduces the novel concept of forest waterlands as borderlands and fluid edges, which are now subject to concern by conservationists. These are entangled spaces in which conservation, peoples, and politics interact, connect, and disconnect with the nexus of waters, forests, and lands.-The book sheds light on the building and mappin
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- Author
- Hanna Laako, Edith Kauffer
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2025
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781032551111
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, The Environment, Stem
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