There is an immediate ecological concern for the continued expansion of the agricultural frontier further into the Sierra de Lacandón National Park (SLNP), the most ecologically precious core zone of the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR). This paper links interview data from 28 communities of high out-migration to the SLNP with household demographic and farm characteristics and land use decisions among farm households in eight communities in the SLNP to understand migration to the frontier, and how subsequent land use contributes to forest clearing. In total over five hundred interviews were conducted by the author from 1998 to 2000. (author's abstract)
Carr, D.L. 2001. Population, land use, and deforestation in the Sierra de Lacandón National Park, Petén, Guatemala. Proceedings of the 2001 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. October 6-8, 2001.