The Maya Forest Waterlands : Shared Conservation, Entangled Politics and Fluid Borders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laako, Hanna.

Contributor:

Kauffer, Edith.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rain forest conservation--Maya Forest.

Rain forest conservation.

Conservation of natural resources--Maya Forest.

Conservation of natural resources.

Water boundaries--Maya Forest.

Water boundaries.

Maya Forest--Environmental conditions.

Maya Forest.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This book examines the entanglements and blurred edges of nature conservation and geopolitical relations in the borderlands of the tri-national Maya Forest. It will be of interest to students and scholars of nature conservation, global environmental politics, geopolitics, borderlands, international relations and natural resource management.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Mapping the Maya Forest Waterlands: Bordered Lands, Forest Walls, and Waterlines

Mapping the Transboundary Corridors: Lacandon Forest Waterlands, Laguna del Tigre-Gulf Riverlands, and Caribbean Karst Waterlands

Mapping Scientific Spaces and Places in the Maya Forest Waterlands

The Space and Place of Our Research and Writing

1. From Borderlands to Forest Waterlands

Borderlands Studies: On the Things Left Underfoot

Eco-Borderlands as Entangled, Fluid Edges: "Making Worlds Is Not Limited to Humans"

From Ecoregions to Biodiversity Hotspots: Conservation at Borderlands

Problematizing the Land-Water-Forest Nexus: Toward Forest Waterlands

Conclusions: Forest Waterlands Are Political Borderlands

2. Borderlands, the Maya, and the Creation of the Maya Forest

The Maya Forest People: An Eco-borderland in the Interstices of Archaeology and Ecology

The Uneasy, Entangled Maya Forest Routes: States and Tourism

Encounters with the Mayas in the Maya Forest Waterlands

Insight 1: Mayan Rivers Then and Now: Waterlands from Mayanism to Tourism

Insight 2: Co-Conservation in Forest Waterlands and the Mayas of Belize

Conclusions: On the Things Left Underfoot

3. Rethinking Transboundarities: Connectivities of Water and Conservation in the Maya Forest Waterlands

Transboundary Forest Waterlands: Waters, Forest, and Entangled Borders

When Waters Cross Political Borders: Transboundary Rivers in the Maya Forest Waterlands

When Rivers Are Borders and Borders Merge into Rivers: International Rivers at the Lacandon Forest Waterlands and Laguna del Tigre-Gulf Riverlands.

What Happens to the Border When the River Disappears? The Hondo River Converted into Wetlands

When Wetlands and Swamplands Are Entangled with the Border: Disputed Waterlands at the Sarstoon River

Transboundary Conservation in the Maya Forest: Political Borders, Ecosystemic Borderlands, and Hidden Waters

Maya Forest Transboundary Conservation: Beyond Political Borders, Toward Hidden Waters

Biodiversity Conservation in Ecosystemic Borderlands? Challenging the Forest Waterlands' Transboundarities in the Maya Forest

Conclusions

4. Maya Forest Waterlands as Waterless Transboundary River Basins for Their Inhabitants

Transboundary River Basins (TRBs): A Recent Concept and Its Realities in the Maya Forest Waterlands

Forest Waterlands?Disaggregating the Features ofWater and Forest

Plenty of Water TRBs: Living among Waters in the Usumacinta

The Gran Usumacinta Sub-Basin: A River and Three Borders

The Santo Domingo Transboundary Sub-Basin: A Meandering River

Forest TRBs? Soil Uses and Protected Areas (PAs) in Borderlands

Waterless Transboundary Rivers Basins? Local Access to Tap Water and Sanitation

Tap Water in Gran Usumacinta TRB: Tap Without Water and Water Without Tap

Santo Domingo TRB: "The unique dry place is the water tap"

Waterless TRBs, Although Full of Sewage

5. Political Trails in the Maya Forest: Go-Betweens, Curating, and Places-in-Knots in Three Biological Stations

A Hundred Years of Shared Chiclería in the Maya Forest Waterlands: Wayfinding with Go-Betweens

Biological Station 1: Curating in Chiquibul Biocultural Borderlands

Biological Station 2: Go-Betweens in the Contested Biocultural Laguna del Tigre Lands

Biological Station 3: Cartographic Illusions in the Biocultural Lacandon Rainforest.

Conclusions: In the Shadows of a Sapodilla Tree

The Maya Forest Waterlands, or There and Back Again

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-04-030907-0

1-003-42905-X

1-04-030903-8

9781003429050

OCLC:

1484075390

Publisher Number:

Https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003429050