Mexican Natural Resources Management and Biodiversity Conservation

SECTION I PUBLIC POLICIES CHAPTER 1. BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN MEXICO: ASSESSING THE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY FOR IMPLEMENTING NAGOYA PROTOCOL AND AICHI TARGETS. Jesús Darío-Galindo González and Evelia Rivera-Arriaga.- CHAPTER 2. ARE CURRENT ACTIONS FOR CONSERVATION IN MEXICO ENOUGH? A REVIEW OF THE PROXIMATE AND ULTIMATE THREATS. Cecilia L. Jiménez-Sierra, Daniel Torres-Orozco Jiménez and Ma. Loraine Matias-Palafox.- CHAPTER 3. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, AND CIVIL SERVICE IN MEXICO: LESSONS LEARNT FROM THE LAST 30 YEARS Aguirre-Muñoz, Alfonso.- CHAPTER 4. PUBLIC POLICIES AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN MEXICO Norma Patricia Muñoz Sevilla, Maxime Le Bail, Omar Berkelaar Muñoz.- CHAPTER 5. PUBLIC MEXICAN CORPORATIONS SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS: MEASURING THE PROFIT BENEFITS OF PROTECTED NATURAL AREAS PROGRAMS FOR SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTORS. Irma Cristina Espitia Moreno, Oscar V. De la Torre Torres and Dolores Guadalupe Martínez Peña.- CHAPTER 6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE GOVERNANCE OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES IN MEXICO: TRENDS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION. David J. Jefferson, Ileana Serrano Fraire and Luis Felipe Beltrán-Morales.- CHAPTER 7. ARTISANAL FISHERS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC POLICIES FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. Gerardo Rodríguez Quiroz, Isidro Luis Rodríguez Franco, Daniel García Urquídez, Miguel Ángel Pinkus Rendón and Manuel Jesús Pinkus Rendón.- SECTION II THEORETICAL ASPECTS CHAPTER 8. SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF CONSERVATION IN RURAL COMMUNITIES. Miguel Pinkus-Rendón, Enrique Rodríguez-Balam and Manuel Pinkus-Rendón.- CHAPTER 9. THE CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF THE MEXICAN ISLANDS, A SUCCESSFUL COMPREHENSIVE AND COLLABORATIVE APPROACH RELEVANT FOR GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY Federico A. Méndez-Sánchez, Mariam Latofski-Robles, Luciana Luna-Mendoza, Yuliana Bedolla-Guzmán, Antonio Ortiz-Alcaraz, Julio Hernández-Montoya, Evaristo Rojas-Mayoral and Alfonso Aguirre-Muñoz.-

Alfredo Ortega-Rubio. Ph.D. with specialty in Ecology is currently a titular researcher at the Northwest Centre for Biological Research in Mexico. He has received three national awards from the President of the Mexican Republic for his career in scientific research, with a Socio-Ecological perspective, applied to biodiversity conservation in Natural Protected Areas. He has published 194 original research articles, 21 books and 99 book chapters. He has led 175 very large projects on resource management, ecological restoration and environmental impact assessment, including those required to create the Sierra de La Laguna, Vizcaíno Desert and Revillagigedo Archipelago, Biosphere Reserves. He has directed a total of 63 postgraduate thesis, including 35 Ph.D. and 28 Master in Sciences. He has been awarded with the international INTERCIENCIA Prize in Biodiversity Conservation on the American Continent in 2007. He was also awarded the Prize for Scientific Research in the State of Baja California Sur. Since 2004 he has been Researcher "E", the top Researcher level at the CONACYT Research Centres system.