SIT Graduate Institute/SIT Study Abroad SIT Digital Collections Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection SIT Study Abroad Spring 2018 Cuando la vida era tranquila: Land use and livelihood changes following the construction of the Chan 75 dam in Nance del Risco, Bocas del Toro Patrick McKenzie SIT Study Abroad Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection Part of the Earth Sciences Commons, Environmental Health and Protection Commons, Latin American Studies Commons, Natural Resource Economics Commons, and the Nature and Society Relations Commons Recommended Citation McKenzie, Patrick, "Cuando la vida era tranquila: Land use and livelihood changes following the construction of the Chan 75 dam in Nance del Risco, Bocas del Toro" (2018). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 2796. https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/2796 This Unpublished Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the SIT Study Abroad at SIT Digital Collections. It has been accepted for inclusion in Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection by an authorized administrator of SIT Digital Collections. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Cuando la vida era tranquila: Land use and livelihood changes following the construction of the Chan 75 dam in Nance del Risco, Bocas del Toro Patrick McKenzie School for International Training: Panama Spring 2018 Abstract The Ngobe are Panama’s most populous indigenous group. While the Ngobe that live in the comarca have land and resource rights, those that live immediately outside of it do not. This issue has been exacerbated by the creation of Palo Seco Forest Reserve which has removed all land rights from the Ngobe living within it.