The reconstruction of civil society in Monte Alto, a democratic project in Valle de Bravo.

Abstract

This paper presents a study of how the reconstruction of civil society was generated by proposing solutions to the forestry problems that developed in a protected natural area (PNA) called Monte Alto, a town within microregion I of Valle de Bravo, in the state of Mexico, Mexico. This forestry problem was the incentive to democratically promote the participation of several actors in the public arena: the environmental organizations that formed the civil society, which in turn promoted the intervention of the Vallesana society to preserve the forest wealth of the microregion, and the government agencies in charge of the preservation and protection of the forests of the PNA. The methodology used in this work was based on a qualitative study, seeking the significance and interpretation of the actions of environmental organizations as civil society, but it was also supported by a quantitative study about the socioeconomic problems of the communities neighboring this PNA and the accounting of the extraction of wood and non-wood resources in Monte Alto.