This book presents valuable and recent lessons learned regarding the links between natural resources management, from a Socio-Ecological perspective, and the biodiversity conservation in Mexico. It address the political and social aspects, as well as the biological and ecological factors, involved in natural resources management and their impacts on biodiversity conservation. It is a useful resource for researchers and professionals around the globe, but especially those in Latin American countries, which are grappling with the same Bio-Cultural heritage conservation issues.

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
CHAPTER 10.  SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCES IN PROMOTING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN MEXICAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY. Arturo Eugenio Gómez Barrero,  Arturo Gómez-Pompa and Andrea Gómez Lissarrague
CHAPTER 11.  FORGOTTEN SOCIAL ISSUES FOR ACHIEVING LONG-TERM CONSERVATION IN PROTECTED AREAS. Daniel Torres-Orozco Jiménez, Benito Vázquez-Quesada and Cecilia L. Jiménez-Sierra
CHAPTER 12.  ESTUARIES AND COASTAL LAGOONS OF MEXICO: CHALLENGES FOR SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT, AND CONSERVATION José Alfredo Arreola Lizárraga, Gustavo Padilla-Arredondo, Thelma Michelle Ruiz Ruiz, Luz María Cruz García, Lía Celina Méndez Rodríguez, Pablo Hernández Almaraz and Héctor Hugo Vargas González
CHAPTER 13.  STATUS OF THE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY, TAXONOMY AND CONSERVATION OF THE REPTILES OF THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA ISLANDS. María Carmen Blázquez, Patricia Vázquez and Alfredo Ortega-Rubio
CHAPTER 15.  POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON COASTAL BIODIVERSITY AND SOCIETAL IMPORTANT PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES. A CASE STUDY IN MEXICAN COASTAL STATES. Isaac Azuz-Adeath and Alejandra Cuevas
CHAPTER 16.    DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN MEXICO. Guillermo Zúñiga-Gutiérrez and Veneranda Rubio-Pérez
CHAPTER 17.  FRESHWATER WETLANDS CONSERVATION; AN ASSESSMENT PROTOCOL FOR COASTAL RESTORATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE. María Mercedes Castillo-Uzcanga, Everardo Barba-Macías y Alejandro Espinoza-Tenorio
SECTION III  CASE STUDIES CHAPTER 18. COMMUNITY ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN NATURAL PROTECTED AREAS. THE CASE OF EL VIZCAÍNO BIOSPHERE RESERVE, MEXICO. Alba E. Gámez, Antonina Ivanova and Eduardo Juárez
CHAPTER 19.  THE VALUE OF ECO-TOURISM AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN ESPIRITU SANTO ISLAND NATIONAL PARK, MEXICO. Claudia Lorena Lauterio-Martínez, Víctor Ángel Hernández-Trejo, Alfredo Ortega-Rubio, Elizabeth Olmos-Martínez, Reyna María Ibáñez-Pérez and Mariana Bobadilla-Jiménez
CHAPTER 20.  BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN THE PANTANOS DE CENTLA BIOSPHERE RESERVE: ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC THREATS. Everardo Barba-Macías, M. Azahara Mesa-Jurado, Alejandro Espinoza-Tenorio and Alejandro Ortega-Argueta
CHAPTER 21.  DIVERSITY, DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF WOODY PLANTS IN A DRY TROPICAL FOREST: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ITS MANAGEMENT. Jesús Argumedo-Espinoza, Joaquín Sosa Ramírez, Vicente Díaz Núñez, Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup and María Elena Siqueiros Delgado
CHAPTER 22.  CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY VS TOURISM AND FISHING AT THE ARCHIPELAGO ESPIRITU SANTO IN THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA.  Elizabeth Olmos-Martínez, Oscar Arizpe, César Maldonado-Alcudia and Blanca Roldán-Clarà
CHAPTER 23.  FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY IN PLANTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION ISSUES OF THE MEXICAN BIODIVERSITY Clara Tinoco-Ojanguren, José L. Andrade, Oscar Briones and Alejandro E. Castellanos
CHAPTER 24.  REALITIES AND PENDING ISSUES IN THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN NATURAL PROTECTED AREAS IN MEXICO Manuel Jesús Pinkus-Rendón, Cielo María Ávila-López, Michael V. Cordoba-Matson and Alfredo Ortega-Rubio.