Terminos Lagoon ecosystem is the largest fluvial-lagoon estuarine system in the country and one of the most important reserves of coastal flora and fauna in Mexico. Since the seventies, part of the main infrastructure for country's oil extraction is located in this area. Its high biodiversity has motivated different type of studies including deforestation processes and land use planning.

This paper empirically explores the political-economic determinants of why governments choose to tax or subsidize trade in agriculture. The authors use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA) across a number of commodities spanning the last five decades for 64 countries.

Decreto N° 1945 del 30 de abril de 2009 que aprueba el Programa Nacional para los Pueblos Indígenas (PRONAPI)

Los desafíos que representan la crisis económica y la necesidad de enfrentar el cambio climático están llevando a la gestión forestal al centro del interés mundial. El último Informe sobre la Situación de los Bosques del Mundo 2009 advierte que a corto plazo, los bosques y el sector forestal resultarán fuertemente impactados por la crisis económica mundial.

Bosques para el desarrollo: el debate en la Amazonía
Pablo Pacheco *

The report documents on illegal logging and illegal export of timber to China in Kachin State in Burma, which is on the border of China and where deforestation is at its worst.

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo describir los cambios en la cobertura y uso del suelo sucedidos en el Estado de México en el periodo 1993-2002. Se calculan los cambios, intercambios y transiciones sistemáticas que afectan la pérdida de la cobertura forestal, se aplican métodos de regresión multivariantes para explicar las posibles causas que provocan este proceso de deforestación regional.

This paper summarises the importance of wetlands in relation to climate change and eaxmines their potential role in the measures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) under the Kyoto Protocol. The links between REDD concepts and wetlands are explored for the following reasons:

Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. This paper discusses competition for agricultural land and investigates why the poor are closely associated with forests. Furthermore, the paper examines the effects of changes in crop land use on changes in forest cover.

Confrontée à la précarité quant à l’accès aux ressources; la vulnérabilité du paysage et du bassin versant avec des risques d’érosion, de glissements de terrain et d’inondation; la réduction des approvisionnements et augmentation des prix des produits forestiers non ligneux; et la raréfaction produits énergétiques issus du bois, la République centrafricaine a en 2009 adopté la Stratégie de déve

The importance of the role of local community forestry institutions towards forest conservation is exemplified through a comparison of two adjacent areas within the Central Yucatan Peninsular Region (CYPR) in which Land-Use Cover Change (LUCC) analyses were conducted.

A major development concern of the 1970s and 1980s was 'the other energy' or 'woodfuel crisis'. Woodfuel use in developing regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America was believed to be a key factor in tropical deforestation, and the loss of forests was projected to result in widespread woodfuel shortages.