Public policy and environmental actions on the South Coast of Jalisco

Abstract

This article discusses the particular features of the exercise of public power in Mexico and the panorama of contradictions that hinders the implementation of comprehensive, inclusive environmental policies on the South Coast of Jalisco. Although there have recently been efforts to stop regarding planning and land management as a purely governmental matter, the sectoral, centralist, hierarchical and informal trends in the exercise of public power make it difficult to translate the initiatives of certain social and institutional actors into actual participation and an effective administrative decentralization in environmental matters.