Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests

by Andrew S. Mathews

Book Overview

A study of how encounters between forestry bureaucrats and indigenous forest managers in Mexico produced official knowledge about forests and the state.

Greater knowledge and transparency are often promoted as the keys to solving a wide array of governance problems. In Instituting Nature, Andrew Mathews describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516446
• ISBN13: 9780262516440
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher