This study examines whether the establishment of community-managed forest concessions has driven migration into the Petén department in northern Guatemala. The Petén department is home to the Maya Biosphere Reserve, which is a 2-million-hectare tropical forest that contains forest concession areas managed by forest-dwelling communities living in and near the reserve. The forest concessions provide concession members with employment opportunities in forestry and tourism as well as the opportunity to profit from timber and non-timber forest product sales of products sustainably harvested from the concession. Members are then responsible for protecting the forest resources within their concession and abiding by Forest Stewardship Council regulations. We examine household characteristics of migrants from within the Petén as well as outside of the Petén department using a 2017 survey of forest-dwelling communities in and near the Maya Biosphere Reserve to determine whether concession members are more likely to have migrated into the reserve than non-concession member households. The results show that concession members are less likely to be migrants, which suggests that, although the concessions create opportunities in forestry and tourism sector, migration is not drive by the prospect of obtaining concession membership.

本研究考察了社区管理森林特许权的建立是否推动了危地马拉北部佩滕省的迁移。Petén 部门是玛雅生物圈保护区的所在地，这是一片 200 万公顷的热带森林，其中包括由居住在保护区内和附近的森林居住社区管理的森林特许区。森林特许权为特许权成员提供林业和旅游业的就业机会，以及从特许权可持续采伐产品的木材和非木材森林产品销售中获利的机会。然后，成员有责任保护其特许权范围内的森林资源并遵守森林管理委员会的规定。我们使用 2017 年对玛雅生物圈保护区内外的森林居住社区的调查，研究了佩滕省内和佩滕省外移民的家庭特征，以确定特许权成员是否比非特许成员更有可能迁移到保护区。 - 特许成员家庭。结果表明，特许权成员不太可能是移民，这表明，尽管特许权在林业和旅游部门创造了机会，但移民并不是由获得特许权成员的前景驱动的。