Guatemala Natural Resource Policy Inventory USAID/ROCAP RENARM Project. Volume 1. Executive Summary. Volume 2. The Inventory. Volume 3. Technical Appendices

摘要

Improved natural resource management in Guatemala must begin with sound public policy. The study, presented in three volumes, examines the macroeconomic, sector, and international policies that affect the management of natural resources in the country. Volume I provides a non-technical summary of the results and conclusions of the report. Detailed analyses are presented in Volume II. Volume III presents policy inventory tables in four categories--sustainable agriculture, production from natural forests, watershed management, and wildland management--and provides a brief description of 90 domestic (public and private) and international institutions and universities active in Guatemala's natural resource policy environment. The main conclusion is that the country's poverty, population pressure, and skewed resource distribution (political and economic) are the fundamental causes of natural resource problems in Guatemala. Environmental policies have helped alleviate certain of these problems, but many are ill-conceived, unenforced, or constrained by contradictory policies and conflicting political or economic pressures.