Processes of protection : a review of the pathway to establish a new protected area in Baja California Sur

摘要: OF THE THESIS Processes of Protection: A Review the Pathway to Establish a New Protected Area in Baja California Sur by Elizabeth Marie Eklund Master Arts Anthropology San Diego State University, 2013 Designating parks and protected areas is one most common conservation strategies. Ideas about this mode landscape level have been shaped many narratives debates. These include stories assumptions role humans on landscape, how its features should be perceived, resources reserved or utilized, who best able make those decisions. In Sur, group actors has submitted paperwork hopes establishing new area, Sierras de la Giganta Guadalupe Biosphere Reserve (Reserva Biosfera las La y Guadalupe). The wrote proposal supplementary materials constituted discourse community, collection people engage pre-existing ideas, both shaping further discussion while body literature continues frame topic. I went drew data from draft supporting documents as well fourteen key informant interviews with members community. While document writers invoked narrative fundamentally destructive nature documents, they part living depending natural systems much more frequently. This was often coupled idea ecosystem services that fragile. also presented protecting ranching ranchero way life an equally important aspect conservation. community worked within tradition Mexico’s system areas. Partly outside community-based management, partially driven backgrounds motivations involved, emergent conventional concepts were lower priority than local needs issues empowerment. process documenting experiences go into designing provides insights understanding occurs at level.