Mapping Dreams in Nicaragua's Bosawas Reserve

Stocks, Anthony

doi:10.17730/humo.62.4.exekjumfqej3vpx4

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“…In Honduras and Nicaragua, a series of protected areas were created to thwart agricultural expansion and protect tropical forests in the Mosquitia (Herlihy 1997;AFE-COHDEFOR 2000;Stocks 2003;Miller et al 2001;Barborak 1992). However, the efficacy and legitimacy of these protected areas are hotly contested by residents, practitioners, and scholars.…”

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Does Tenure Matter? A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Expansion in the Mosquitia Forest Corridor

Hayes

2007

Hum Ecol

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This article compares how public protection of forests and common-property forest institutions serve to control outside encroachment into frontier forests in Honduras and Nicaragua. The article combines institutional analysis with ethnographically based fieldwork and analysis of landcover images to evaluate how property-rights arrangements influence monitoring, enforcement, and compliance with rules to restrict agricultural expansion in two biosphere reserves in the Mosquitia Corridor. Findings show that territorial demarcation and common-property rights are important components for frontier forest conservation. In areas with weak enforcement mechanisms and heavy reliance on social norms over official regulatory measures, the findings suggest that the perceived legitimacy of tenure arrangements and their respective land-use rules are fundamental to controlling the agricultural frontier.

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Does Tenure Matter? A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Expansion in the Mosquitia Forest Corridor

Hayes

2007

Hum Ecol

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“…This critical assessment of the potential for mapping or PGIS has been carried forward by e.g. Stocks 2003;Wainwright & Bryan 2009;Sletto 2009, Sletto et al 2010, and is especially critical with spatially representing cosmovisions (Read et al 2010;Hirt 2012). Notwithstanding this, there are positive indications that technical devices in PGIS are improving enough to begin to cross the divide between mental maps / naïve geography and digital interpretations, through innovations in knowledge acquisition, cartography and visualization, and data structuring.…”

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Mapping Territories, Land Resources and Rights: Communities Deploying Participatory Mapping/Pgis in Latin America

McCall¹

2014

Rev. Dep. Geogr.

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“…This study was conducted in Nicaragua's Bosawas Biosphere Reserve, which is part of the largest unbroken tract of Neotropical rain forest north of Amazonia (15). Specifically, the research was based in two indigenous Mayangna/Miskito communities along a tributary of the Coco River (Fig.…”

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Heterogeneity of hunting ability and nutritional status among domestic dogs in lowland Nicaragua

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Tankersley

2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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In past and modern human societies, dogs have played an important role as hunting companions. Given considerable ethnographic evidence that dogs vary in their hunting abilities, this paper addresses the effects of key demographic variables, namely age and sex, on the amount of harvested game that dogs contribute in an indigenous Nicaraguan community. Controlling for variation in the time spent potentially hunting, male dogs and older dogs are significantly associated with greater harvests. These results may account for documented preferences for males in both archaeological and ethnographic contexts. Among societies in which dogs are used both as hunting companions and sources of food, the age-related delay in peak hunting ability also suggests a tradeoff that might explain the consumption of dogs shortly after they have reached adult size. Informant rankings of two cohorts of dogs indicate that residents of the community exhibit high agreement about the relative abilities of the dogs, and the rankings indicate that dogs from the same household exhibit comparable skill. There is little evidence that talented, highly-ranked dogs are provided a more nutritious diet, as measured by nitrogen-based and carbonbased isotopic analysis of hair samples. Overall, although dogs can be quite advantageous as hunting companions, this research suggests that the heterogeneity of hunting ability combines with the high mortality of dogs to impose risks on households that depend on dogs as a source of harvested meat.Canis lupus familiaris | life history theory | Mayangna | Miskito | stable isotopes

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Mapping Dreams in Nicaragua's Bosawas Reserve

Cited by 59 publications

References 3 publications

Does Tenure Matter? A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Expansion in the Mosquitia Forest Corridor

Does Tenure Matter? A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Expansion in the Mosquitia Forest Corridor

Mapping Territories, Land Resources and Rights: Communities Deploying Participatory Mapping/Pgis in Latin America

Heterogeneity of hunting ability and nutritional status among domestic dogs in lowland Nicaragua

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