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local inhabitants, and that incorporate the complexity of an integrated SES. As a
team they are more likely to provide effective stewardship achieving long-term
socio-ecological research and monitoring of global change.
Case Study: The Biosphere Reserve of Mapimí (BRM)
The Biosphere Reserve of Mapimí (BRM) was initially decreed in 1977 as an
UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Reserve founded to protect the environment and to rescue the Bolsón Tortoise from extinction (Halffter 1978; Kaus 1992).
Since their origins, biosphere reserves are expected to promote conservation,
Fig. 10.1 The socio-ecological system of the Biosphere Reserve of Mapimí, Mexico including its
political division composed of ejidos and private lands (top left), the dominant dryland vegetation
(top right) (Rzedowski 2006; INEGI 2011) and soils (bottom left) types (INEGI 2004)
10 Conservation and Development in the Biosphere Reserve of Mapimí…
local inhabitants, and that incorporate the complexity of an integrated SES. As a
team they are more likely to provide effective stewardship achieving long-term
socio-ecological research and monitoring of global change.
Case Study: The Biosphere Reserve of Mapimí (BRM)
The Biosphere Reserve of Mapimí (BRM) was initially decreed in 1977 as an
UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Reserve founded to protect the environment and to rescue the Bolsón Tortoise from extinction (Halffter 1978; Kaus 1992).
Since their origins, biosphere reserves are expected to promote conservation,
Fig. 10.1 The socio-ecological system of the Biosphere Reserve of Mapimí, Mexico including its
political division composed of ejidos and private lands (top left), the dominant dryland vegetation
(top right) (Rzedowski 2006; INEGI 2011) and soils (bottom left) types (INEGI 2004)
10 Conservation and Development in the Biosphere Reserve of Mapimí…