Community Forestry in Oaxaca, Mexico

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We provide an introduction to a series of papers that concern community management of forests and forestry. Here we introduce the two case studies: Ixtlán de Juárez, located in the Sierra Norte in northeastern Oaxaca; and Chalchijapa, located in the Chimalapas mountains. Both are in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico's most biodiverse and ethnically diverse region centered as a nexus between temperate and tropical elements of North and South America. We provide the methodological framework for the compilation of papers that make up this volume. In summary, the papers are based on the perspectives, observations and reflections of a group of graduate research students that explored issues pertaining to protected areas management through first-hand experience with these two Oaxacan communities.