Abstract

URQUIZA GARCIA, Juan Humberto. Miguel Angel de Quevedo and the forest hydrological conservation project of national watersheds in the first half of the twentieth century, 1900-1940. Hist. Caribe [online]. 2015, vol.10, n.26, pp.211-255. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.26.2015.8.

The debate around deforestation in Mexico during the second half of the nineteenth century gives us an example of how clear the problems arised by massive wood cutting were for the scientific elites. The thesis about hidrological conservacionism of forest watersheds, encouraged by engineer Miguel Angel de Quevedo, proved that a conservation project that preceded the proposals of the North-american Conference for Natural Resources Conservation had been developed in Mexico. The participation of Quevedo in that Conference incorporated the mexican perspective in the resolutions and its aplication in our country, oriented by the conservacionist group he headed between 1917-1940.

Keywords : Miguel Angel de Quevedo; watershed; conservation; deforestation; property.

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