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Indigenous Forest Management in the Bolivian Amazon: Lessons from the Yuracare People

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Type: Conference Paper
Author: Becker, C. Dustin; León, Rosario
Conference: Crossing Boundaries, the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Conf. Date: June 10-14
Date: 1998
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/847
Sector: Forestry
Region: South America
Subject(s): IASC
common pool resources--case studies
forest management
deforestation
indigenous institutions
Workshop
IFRI
Abstract: "Societies have been making choices about their relationships with forests for many centuries. As reviewed by Perlin (1991), the dominant choice for the last 5,000 years across Asia and Europe, and more recently in the Americas, has been to cut down trees, use them for fuel and building materials, and replace them with crops or urban centers. In contrast, numerous neotropical cultures have evolved societies that sustain rather than destroy forest ecosystems (Chernela, 1989; Posey, 1992). Such ecologically oriented cultures are rapidly disappearing. Mutualistic relationships between forests and people in the tropics are changing as activities in the forest are modified by incentives structured by market forces, government forest policies, and by concomitant changes in the values of indigenous peoples. This study explores the changing relationship between the Yuracare people and the forest communities they sustain and use along the Rio Chapare in northern Bolivia. It finds that while certain external threats do affect the condition of the Yuracare's forests, a significant amount of local level management continues to exist."

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