Medio ambiente y sistema de cargos en comunidades otomíes del Estado de México: estudio de caso de San Mateo El Viejo

The factors that influence the development process of rural territories and that explain the success or failure of political strategies promoted from the local level to understand the complexity of these processes. In the case of natural spaces inhabited by indigenous populations that maintain close relationships with the resources associated with such areas, the ‘sustainable development’ approach is also insufficient to explain the social dynamics that take place in those spaces.