Congrats, Will!

At the same time, Boyer explores how, despite these limitations, local communities engaged in a wide range of strategies to preserve and use their resources.

This is a fantastic book for anyone interested in community forestry, local management of resources, and the Mexican conservation model 4/4

The interactions and negotiations among government officials (both local and national), communities, and private firms led to the politicization of landscapes, constituting the central theme of the book. Boyer focuses on Michoacán and Chihuahua as case studies of regions rich in timber resources 3/4

After the Mexican Revolution, the new regime redistributed vast swaths of land (including commercial forests) to communities, as a way to address one of the key grievances that led to the civil war. Nonetheless, it maintained key management rights over natural resources, leading to conflict 2/4

Here’s the link to the data:

globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...

The map pools together all operating, retired, shelved, canceled and mothballed coal power plants as of 2022, so only a portion of these would be operating.

Very interesting work! Some of these hotspots are more surprising to me than others (i.e. Western Europe and Southern Australia)