Manzanillo's woods: records for an environmental history (Original)

Abstract

The contemporary environmental problem is present in the most diverse political, religions, governmental, cultural, and medical sceneries. Thus, the unchained process of environmental changes constitutes, on the authors' viewpoint, the chief ingredient of environmental history and its object of study.  It is indispensable to break down the one-way approaches in the analysis of man-society-nature relationship that, in a general way, point out to natural science. It is necessary to integrate what is historical guided to re-think the social and economic processes of the future as a revitalizing aspect of this relationship´s evolution, since the dynamics of the ecosystems and the impacts received by man activity. For this reason, this article constitutes an attempt to approach the environmental history in the wood resource in Manzanillo during the XIX century.