Institutional legacies explain the comparative efficacy of protected areas: Evidence from the Calakmul and Maya Biosphere Reserves of Mexico and Guatemala

Agriculture & Biology

• Guatemala 80%
• biosphere 77%
• conservation areas 61%
• land tenure 53%
• Mexico 52%
• dates (fruit) 22%
• farmers 19%
• forest conservation 13%
• politics 13%
• economics 12%
• natural resources conservation 10%
• surpluses 10%
• population density 8%
• labor 8%
• history 7%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• biosphere reserve 80%
• protected area 57%
• tenure system 33%
• institutional development 33%
• land tenure 27%
• land 18%
• political organization 17%
• political process 15%
• political system 15%
• land type 14%
• forest conservation 13%
• economics 12%
• nature conservation 11%
• surplus 11%
• labor 10%
• population density 9%
• agricultural land 8%
• history 6%
• analysis 2%

Social Sciences

• biosphere reserve 100%
• Guatemala 74%
• Mexico 51%
• conservation 34%
• evidence 27%
• farmer 21%
• Land tenure 19%
• equality 13%
• Land distribution 12%
• population density 9%
• political organization 9%
• political system 7%
• economics 6%
• labor 5%
• history 4%