Socio-ecological Studies in Natural Protected Areas: Linking Community Development and Conservation in Mexico

Foreword.- Preface.- Part I: Theoretical Aspects.- Chapter 1: Socioecology.- Chapter 2: Beyond Paradigms: Socio-Ecology's heritage and prospective.- Chapter 3: Effective ecological sustainability as a complex system from a social dimension.- Chapter 4: In search of long-term conservation: objectives, effectiveness and participation schemes in Protected Areas.- Chapter 5: Changing the paradigm for better conservation: Conceptual proposals from the environmental humanities.- Chapter 6: Inclusion of the human factor in protected natural areas.- Chapter 7: Uncontrolled Urban Growth: The Crisis of Protected Natural Areas near Cities in Mexico.- Chapter 8: Dynamic simulation models and participatory approaches to support the sustainable management of social-ecological systems in Natural Protected Areas.- Part II: Methodological Aspects.- Chapter 9: The payment of Environmental services as an economic and governance mechanism for the conservation and management of Natural Protected Areas.- Chapter 10: An integrated dynamic model for beach zoning in natural protected areas.- Chapter 11: Managing the Galapagos National Park: a systemic approach based on socio-ecological modeling and sustainability indicators.- Chapter 12: Local stakeholders' perception as a contribution to the identification of negative impacts on protected areas: a case study of Torres del Paine National Park.- Chapter 13: ICZM Strategy for the Socio-ecological System of the Mar Menor (Spain): methodological aspects and public participation.- Chapter 14: Training for aquaculture and fishery activities for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.- Chapter 15: Applying epistemic approach to analyze bio-intercultural relationships among local indigenous people and nature.- Part III: Social Groups and Ecological Knowledge.- Chapter 16: Sociocultural and environmental interactions between people and wild edible plants: the case of Sierra la Laguna Biosphere Reserve.- Chapter 17: Hunting in the Yucatan Peninsula. Knowledge and worldviews.- Chapter 18: The Nagoya Protocol, Intellectual Property, and Biodiversity Conservation in Mexico.- Chapter 19: Social participation for implementation of trap-cameras projects in managed and protected natural areas of Mexico.- Chapter 20: Socio-environmental affectation of coffee production activity in tributaries of La Suiza River at El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas.- Part IV: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION SUCCESS FROM SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL APPROACH.- Chapter 21: Resistance of the Civil Society against Mining Projects.- Chapter 22: Visions of the future in the oases of Baja California Sur, Mexico.- Chapter 23: The challenge of the science of sustainability in protected natural areas. The case of the UMA "Wotoch Aayin" in the R燰 Celest Biosphere Reserve, Campeche..- Chapter 24: Results of socio-ecosystem institutional management: analysis of two protected natural areas of central M憖ico.- Part V: Community Well Living Imporovement from Ecological Conservation.- Chapter 25: Economic valuation of diving with bull sharks in natural conditions: a recent activity in Cabo Pulmo National Park, Gulf of California, Mexico.- Chapter 26: Socio-ecological effects of government and community collaborative work with local development in a natural protected area.- Chapter 27: Integration of resident fisherfolk communities in Marine Protected Areas by social micro entrepreneurships of mariculture: a case study at La Paz Bay, South Baja California, Mexico.- Chapter 28: Community water management and conservation in Cabo Pulmo National Park (Baja California Sur, Mexico).- Part VI: Governance Changes from Sociecological Approach.- Chapter 29: Walls of water, socio-ecological perspectives of governance changes in a protected natural area of Mexico.- Chapter 30: A s