ABSTRACT

This book explores environmental policymaking in Mexico as a vehicle to understanding the broader changes in the policy process within a system undergoing a democratic transformation. It constitutes the first major analysis of environmental policymaking in Mexico at the national level, and examines the implementation of forestry policy in Mexico's largest rain forest, the Selva Lacandona of the state of Chiapas.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|14 pages

Political Change in Mexico

chapter 4|39 pages

The Making of Environmental Policy

chapter 6|15 pages

Deforestation in the Selva Lacandona of Chiapas

The Last of the Mahoganies?

chapter |16 pages

Epilogue

The Decline of the Environmental Agenda under Vicente Fox

chapter |8 pages

Conclusion