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Multiple-resource modeling as a tool for conservation: Its applicability in Mexico

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The current Mexican environmental law provides the legal basis for comprehensive land-use planning. Under the law, development of natural ecosystems must combine goals, policies, and practices towards the sustainable use of natural resources and the protection of biological diversity. Thus, ecosystem manipulation must be able to counter fragmentation of natural ecosystems and isolation of natural reserves, while providing for human needs. Assessment of the potential of natural ecosystems and management impacts are required. Multiple-resource simulation is an assessment and land-use planning tool that permits managers and decision makers to comply with the law, providing a flexible, user-oriented system that can meet the needs of managers, conservationists, and researchers. A multiple-resource model and an example of how it can be applied to meet planning needs is presented for discussion.

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  1. Centro de Ecología-UNAM, Apartado Postal 70-275, 04510, Mexico, D.F., Mexico

    Luis Antonio Bojórquez-Tapia

  2. School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Peter F. Ffolliott & D. Phillip Guertin

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Bojórquez-Tapia, L.A., Ffolliott, P.F. & Guertin, D.P. Multiple-resource modeling as a tool for conservation: Its applicability in Mexico. Environmental Management 14, 317–324 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02394199

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