Through a case study highlighting linked migration and small‐scale agriculture in six villages in the municipality of Somotillo, in the north‐western Nicaraguan department of Chinandega, this paper contributes to understandings both of south–south, or Central American regional, migration and of the relationship between migration and food security.
This article looks into the Holocene land use and anthropogenic environmental change in the upper Rio Paz Valley, El Salvador, before and after the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century.
Using three nested scales: national, municipal, and communal, the paper explores vulnerability and capacity in response to the landslides caused by Hurricane Ida in 2009.
This paper analyzes the relationship between demographic dynamics and Hurricane Mitch in Central America, and extracts from this experience lessons that can help reduce vulnerability in the long run. Specifically, it centers on three aspects: How did demographic processes condition the area's vulnerability prior to Mitch? What are Mitch's consequences for population dynamics in the short and long term? What changes must be introduced in population dynamics if the effects of future natural disasters are to be mitigated?
'This paper summarizes those factors that have precipitated the loss of environmental capital and contributed to the degradation of the mangroves in El Salvador. Current patterns of extraction and conversion in the mangrove ecosystem in El Salvador can be viewed through an entitlement lens that confers property rights upon some actors and denies them to others. A hierarchy of activities contribute to environmental degradation in the mangroves reflecting the different demands upon and entitlements to that ecosystem.
