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David L. Carr Department of Geography and Carolina Population Center

2001 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community October 06th to 08th - 2001 - Rio de Janeiro. Population, Land Use, and Deforestation in The Sierra de Lacandón National Park, Petén, Guatemala *. David L. Carr Department of Geography and

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David L. Carr Department of Geography and Carolina Population Center

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  1. 2001 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community October 06th to 08th - 2001 - Rio de Janeiro Population, Land Use, and Deforestation in The Sierra de LacandónNational Park, Petén, Guatemala* David L. Carr Department of Geography and Carolina Population Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project funding: The Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays Foundation, NASA, The Rand Corporation, Institute for the Study of World Politics, and The Nature Conservancy. *Due to space constraints, this is a reduced version of the original paper.

  2. Exploring Colonization and Deforestation in the Sierra de Lacandón National Park

  3. ResearchMethods and ResultsResearch Methods in the Area of Migration Destination: The Sierra de Lacandón National Park • Interviews with community leaders in all of the twenty-eight communities responsible for LULCC in the SLNP. • Surveys with 279 men and 220 women from nine communities.

  4. The Site of Migration Origin: Why did people migrate to the SLNP in the first place? A common denominator of the geographically diverse migration source areas: unequal access to resources due to land concentration, underemployment, and rapid population growth.

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