Abstract

MORENO ARRIBA, Jesús. Socioenvironmental Territory and Ecotourism in the Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (Veracruz, Mexico): A Possible New Alternative to Development. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.2, pp.327-353. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v26n2.57461.

From a transdisciplinary approach that combines methods and techniques typical of geographic and anthropological research (“Geo-Anthropology”), this article evidences, documents and analyzes a nongovernmental project of alternative socio-spatial practices in the management of ecotourism resources in the region of Los Tuxtlas and the Sierra de Santa Marta (Veracruz, Mexico). Against the productivist and paternalistic development model of the Mexican and Veracruz governments that has led to a serious deterioration of the socio-environmental territory, these experiences, emanating from Mexican Social Environmentalism, are presented as an example of good practices to build a new model of development capable of helping improve the precarious current situation -ecological, demographic and socioeconomic- of peasant indigenous communities.

Keywords : alternatives to development; ecotourism; Mexico; indigenous population; natural resources.

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