Revolution and Ecological Paternalism: Miguel Angel de Quevedo and Forest Policy in Mexico, 1926-1940

Revolution and Ecological Paternalism: Miguel Angel de Quevedo and Forest Policy in Mexico, 1926-1940

Christopher R. Boyer

This paper examines the impact of Miguel Angel de Quevedo's scientific ideas on the forest code, which determined how rural communities could use their forest resources during Cardenas' land reform. An analysis of Quevedo's thought reveals that he was worried that the communities receiving allotments of woodlands would devastate forests. Bearing this in mind, he laid out the main points of the 1926 Forest Code so that it would tightly restrain the use rural communities could make of their woods. When Cardenas named him director of the Forestry Department in 1934, Quevedo further developed his preservationist viewpoint. This work argues that, despite his “scientific paternalism”, some communities benefitted from Quevedo's legislation.

2007

Código forestal de 1926, Miguel Ángel de Quevedo, México, Siglo XX, ecología, ejidos

Historia Mexicana El Colegio de México

El Colegio de México, A.C.

Latin America. Spanish America, History America