IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/clarxx/v40y2015i7p855-874.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Regional Landscape Change in Fishing Communities of the Mexican North Pacific

Author

Listed:
  • Pablo �lvarez
  • Georges Seingier
  • Gerardo Bocco
  • Ileana Espejel
  • Julie Noriega

Abstract

The study of rural communities is a key element in understanding economic activities and conserving successful methods of resource management and social organisation. The conceptual and operational research axes were interdisciplinary environmental geography and integrative concept landscape. A participatory geographic information system (PGIS) was built to incorporate scientific and local knowledge. Regional landscape changes were analysed in fishing communities of the Mexican North Pacific, based on three historical maps. The main land- and seascape changes were: extensive stockbreeding disappeared; intensive agriculture increased; human settlements expanded; and fishing zones were created, divided and expanded seawards. Marine environment was the most changeable territory, reflecting the dominance of fishing activities. The PGIS proved to be a useful tool for identifying and understanding the changes in fishery management and the resulting dynamics of marine landscape zoning in the various communities, and in future projects would be equally applicable to coastal management and territorial organisation.

Suggested Citation

  • Pablo �lvarez & Georges Seingier & Gerardo Bocco & Ileana Espejel & Julie Noriega, 2015. "Regional Landscape Change in Fishing Communities of the Mexican North Pacific," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(7), pages 855-874, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:40:y:2015:i:7:p:855-874
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2015.1031095
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/01426397.2015.1031095
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/01426397.2015.1031095?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:40:y:2015:i:7:p:855-874. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/clar20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.