TY - JOUR T1 - Starving in the forest JF - Plant Research and Development Y1 - 1988 A1 - Bernd Neugebauer KW - forestry KW - Maya KW - Mexico KW - Native Americans KW - Oxkutzcab KW - plan Tabi KW - rainforests KW - trees KW - Yucatan AB -

This paper gives a brief history of the tropical rainforest regions of Middle America —Yucatan. It relates this history to the present destruction of the forests and how this destruction is interrelated with starvation. This paper demonstrates, through an example of water use, how planning and aid should be suited to a locality. Sections include: land use in tropical Middle America; determination of the forest function; exploiting the forests; loss of the forest; traditional [living] alternatives; Milpa: the shifting cultivation of the Maya; conuco; tree gardens; peasants and state projects; and land use planning in the pre-Spanish era.

VL - 28 UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3048499 ER -