Overview
- This book addresses the links between natural resource management and biodiversity conservation in Mexico
- A truly multidisciplinary book, including a wide array of author´s from the social, economic and natural sciences
- It offers practical recommendations for Mexican biodiversity conservation, which can be extrapolated to other Latin American countries
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book presents valuable and recent lessons learned regarding the links between natural resources management, from a Socio-Ecological perspective, and the biodiversity conservation in Mexico. It address the political and social aspects, as well as the biological and ecological factors, involved in natural resources management and their impacts on biodiversity conservation. It is a useful resource for researchers and professionals around the globe, but especially those in Latin American countries, which are grappling with the same Bio-Cultural heritage conservation issues.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Alfredo Ortega-Rubio. Ph.D. with specialty in Ecology is currently a titular researcher at the Northwest Centre for Biological Research in Mexico. He has received three national awards from the President of the Mexican Republic for his career in scientific research, with a Socio-Ecological perspective, applied to biodiversity conservation in Natural Protected Areas. He has published 194 original research articles, 21 books and 99 book chapters. He has led 175 very large projects on resource management, ecological restoration and environmental impact assessment, including those required to create the Sierra de La Laguna, Vizcaíno Desert and Revillagigedo Archipelago, Biosphere Reserves. He has directed a total of 63 postgraduate thesis, including 35 Ph.D. and 28 Master in Sciences. He has been awarded with the international INTERCIENCIA Prize in Biodiversity Conservation on the American Continent in 2007. He was also awarded the Prize for Scientific Research in the State of Baja California Sur. Since 2004 he has been Researcher "E", the top Researcher level at the CONACYT Research Centres system.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mexican Natural Resources Management and Biodiversity Conservation
Book Subtitle: Recent Case Studies
Editors: Alfredo Ortega-Rubio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90584-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90583-9Published: 01 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08047-1Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90584-6Published: 20 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 588
Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biodiversity, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Sustainable Development, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Environmental Management