Culture-Nature vs Commerce Disjunctives: Touristic Mayan Train Trans-Isthmus Mega Project and its Cultural Heritage and Urban Impact in Mexico.

Abstract

Without any rigorous popular methodologies for consultation the construction of the railroad way will increase the unfortunate collision between “culture-nature” vs “economy-innovation-technology transfer”. Looking for equity and diversity progress the edge effects caused by the Train, especially in critical areas such as the wildlife passages will change the daily sustainable life styles focused on their traditional social experiences supported on the spiritual meaning sense of housing the earth and sky as a whole, collective memory, and local dreams.

To avoid these impacts, we propose a) the dynamic process of involving local people and stakeholders, b) promote own building capacities in sustainable managing forecast, c) empower the development of a low-scale and sustainable tourism.