
Overview
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David Barton Bray is a professor in the Earth and Environment Department at Florida International University. He carries out research on community forest management in Mexico and Central America and pursues interests in natural resource and ecosystem management in Latin America and globally. He was chair and associate professor in the Environmental Studies Department at FIU from 1997 to 2002. He received his PhD from Brown University in 1983 in Anthropology; he also has a master's degree in Anthropology from Brown and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Missouri. From 1983 to 1986 he was assistant director and visiting assistant professor at the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. From 1986 to 1997 he was foundation representative with the Inter-American Foundation, a U.S. government foreign assistance agency, in Arlington, VA. With the IAF he worked in Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay 1986-1989 and in Mexico 1989-1997. From 1992 to 1998 he was a member of the Tropical Ecosystems Directorate of the US Man and the Biosphere Program. In 1997 he left the IAF to take up the position at FIU.
Since 1997, he has received research funding from the Fulbright Program, the Ford Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and the US Agency for International Development. He has also consulted for the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He is the lead editor of the book The Community Forests of Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2005) and is widely published in academic journals such as Conservation Biology, World Development, Land Use Policy, and Forest Policy and Economics and in journalistic outlets such as the New York Times and the Miami Herald. He has been invited to give presentations on research by himself and colleagues for high-level Chinese forestry officials in Beijing, the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and Mexico City, the Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico, and at Yale University, among other venues. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Ecologic, a Cambridge, MA NGO and an advisor to several forest community organizations in Mexico and is currently developing research and action projects with forest community organizations in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico.
In November 2020, Dr. Bray added another book to his portfolio: Mexico's Community Forest Enterprises: Success on the Commons and the Seeds of a Good Anthropocene.
research interests
- community forest management in Mexico and Central America; natural resource and ecosystem management in Latin America and globally
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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2018Community-based land sparing: Territorial land-use zoning and forest management in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, MexicoFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.06.056 Web of Science: 000449447900021
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2018Commodity chains, institutions, and domestic policies of organic and fair trade coffee in BoliviaFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1359737 Web of Science: 000428779300005
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2016Back to the Future: The Persistence of Horse Skidding in Large Scale Industrial Community Forests in Chihuahua, MexicoFull Text via DOI: 10.3390/f7110283 Web of Science: 000388672000034
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2015Key factors which influence the success of community forestry in developing countriesFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.011 Web of Science: 000366767100021
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2015Can Payments for Environmental Services Strengthen Social Capital, Encourage Distributional Equity, and Reduce PovertyFull Text via DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.179880 Web of Science: 000374232400003
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2013When the State Supplies the Commons: Origins, Changes, and Design of Mexico's Common Property RegimeFull Text via DOI: 10.1353/lag.2013.0003 Web of Science: 000219909300003
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2012Beyond harvests in the commons: multi-scale governance and turbulence in indigenous/community conserved areas in Oaxaca, MexicoFull Text via DOI: 10.18352/ijc.328 Web of Science: 000208878800004
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2012Ecological, Economic, and Organizational Dimensions of Organic Farming in Miami-Dade CountyFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/10440046.2011.627990 Web of Science: 000300528800007
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2011Conservation of the jaguar Panthera onca in a community-dominated landscape in montane forests in Oaxaca, MexicoFull Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0030605310001353 Web of Science: 000297883300018
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2011Multi-Scale Forest Governance, Deforestation, and Violence in Two Regions of Guerrero, MexicoFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.08.018 Web of Science: 000288638100012
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2005Bee populations, forest disturbance, and africanization in MexicoFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2005.00087.x Web of Science: 000233766800022
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2004The institutional drivers of sustainable landscapes: a case study of the 'Mayan Zone' in Quintana Roo, MexicoFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2003.11.001 Web of Science: 000224039300002
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2003Mexico's community-managed forests as a global model for sustainable landscapesFull Text via DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01639.x Web of Science: 000183077800010
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2002Reviews of Web Sites, Films, BooksFull Text via DOI: 10.1659/0276-4741(2002)022[0200:rowsfb]2.0.co;2
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2002Social dimensions of organic coffee production in Mexico: Lessons for eco-labeling initiativesFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/08941920252866783 Web of Science: 000174958100003
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Book Chapter
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2015Beyond Islands?: Sustainable rural development in Mexico. 330-340.Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9781315705859-29
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2010Forest Cover Dynamics and Forest Transitions in Mexico and Central America: Towards a "Great Restoration"?. 85-120.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9656-3_5 Web of Science: 000273423800005
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2008
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2005Chapter 14: Community Forestry in Mexico: Twenty Lessons Learned and Four Future Pathways. 335-350.Full Text via DOI: 10.7560/706378-016
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2005Chapter 1: Community Managed in the Strong Sense of the Phrase: The Community Forest Enterprises of Mexico. 1-26.Full Text via DOI: 10.7560/706378-003
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200412. Community Forestry as a Strategy for Sustainable Management. 221-237.Full Text via DOI: 10.7312/zari12906-014
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Book Review
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2018Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico. Ed. 12.Full Text via DOI: 10.18352/ijc.883 Web of Science: 000430658000023
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2010Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers.. Ed. 23.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/08941921003641729 Web of Science: 000276809300007
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1999Sacrificing the forest: Environmental and social struggles in Chiapas.. Ed. 12.Web of Science: 000082412900012
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2004
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Other Scholarly Work
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2020It takes communities to save forests. 190-191.Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-00638-7 Web of Science: 000588002700004
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2011Rodolfo Stavenhagen: The UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples. 502-504.Web of Science: 000294393300011
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Review
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2009From displacement-based conservation to place-based conservation. 11-14.Full Text via DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.54791
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Duffy, Brittany A, Trees in the Agricultural Matrix: Reforestation Processes in a Tropical Dry Landscape in Chinandega, Nicaragua 2016
- Vleet, Eric Van, From Passive to Active Community Conservation: A Study of Forest Governance in a Region of the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico 2013
- Berget, Carolina, Invasion of Bracken Fern in Southern Mexico: Local Knowledge and Perceptions in Two Indigenous Communities in the Chinantla Region, Oaxaca, Mexico 2012
- Marcklinger, Craig J, Community Environmental Preservation Initiatives in Borgne, Haiti 2011
- Hite, Emily B, Transformations of a Coffee Landscape in Southern Mexico: A Case Study of Emigration and Conservation in the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca 2011
- Bobeche, Giddy, Ecological, economic, and organizational dimensions of organic farming in Miami-Dade County 2006
- Beitl, Christine M., The emergence of a mass community-based ecotourism theme park : the case of Ejido Chacchoben, Quintana Roo, Mexico 2005
- Cornejo, Melissa K., Promoting community ecotourism enterprises in common property regimes : a stakeholder analysis and geographic information systems application in Ejido X-Maben in central Quintana Roo, Mexico 2004
- Vries, Tineke A. De, Chicle commercialization: institutions, sustainability and green markets 2002
- Cairns, Christine Elizabeth, Effects of invasive Africanized honey bees (Apis Mellifera Scutellata) on native stingless bee populations (Meliponinae) and traditional Mayan beekeeping in Central Quintana Roo, Mexico 2002
Research
principal investigator on
Contact
full name
- David Bray
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6598-0407 (confirmed)
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