Resumen

BLASQUEZ MARTINEZ, Lidia. La ciudad de México y sus fronteras ecológicas: reformulaciones espaciales, representativas y de poder. Nueva antropol [online]. 2012, vol.25, n.77, pp.155-177. ISSN 0185-0636.

This article addresses the issue of the "ecological frontier" in rural lands located within major conurbations. Take the example of Mexico City with the special case of Lake Xochimilco and Chalco rural lands. The ecological boundary will be analyzed as the visible expression of all social, economic, political and territorial rural areas living under the pressure imposed by urbanization. These processes are structural and symbolic representations and uses of the land. In Mexico, these processes involve the ways in which land tenure is decided, the new dynamics of rural property circulation, the organization of land exploitation and the decentralization of political support for development. One can say that in the past two decades, part of the Mexican countryside was no lONGer conceived as a means of food production and became the natural environment and rural landscape, which is to say, it became an asset that can be consumed as part of urban recreational activities.

Palabras llave : environmental frontier; Xochimilco; sustainable development; rural land.