Development with Identity: Community, Culture and Sustainability in the AndesRobert E. Rhoades CABI, 2006 - 325 páginas Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are demanding that development must address localpriorities, including ethnic identity. Simultaneously, sustainability scientists need to conduct place-basedresearch on the interaction between environment and society that will have global relevance.This book reports on a 6 year interdisciplinary research project on natural resource management inCotacachi, Ecuador, where scientists and indigenous groups learnt to seek common ground. The bookdiscusses how local people and the environment have engaged each other over time to createcontemporary Andean landscapes. It also explores human-environment interaction in relation tobiodiversity, soils and water, and equitable development. This book will be of significant interest tosociologists, anthropologists, economists and sustainability scientists researching environment andagriculture in rural communities. |
Contenido
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TIME AND LANDSCAPE IN COTACACHI | 17 |
BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND USE | 83 |
Colour plate | 102 |
SOILS WATER AND SUSTAINABILITY | 173 |
NEGOTIATING DEVELOPMENT WITH IDENTITY | 251 |
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Development with Identity: Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes Robert E. Rhoades Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
Development with Identity: Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes Robert E. Rhoades Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
Development with Identity: Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes Robert E. Rhoades Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
Términos y frases comunes
activities advocacy coalitions agricultural Alchon Andean animals Asteraceae beans biodiversity Calera canton Chapter chemical Chilcapamba climate change Cotacacheños Cotacachi Cotacachi volcano crops Cuicocha cultivated cultural Development with Identity diversity ecological economic Ecuador Ecuadorian environment environmental eucalyptus eucalyptus trees farm farmers fertilizer Green Revolution groups hacienda harvest highland homegardens household huasipungo Imbabura impact Inca indigenous indigenous communities interviews irrigation La Calera labour land landscape maize maps masl ment mestizo Morochos native forest native trees natural resources Nazarea nutrients ofthe organic matter Otavalo páramo people’s Photo Pichaví plantation plants Poaceae population potatoes production Quichua quinua Quito Quitugo region Rhoades river rural sample San Pedro SANREM sierra social social capital soil species study area Sustainability tion traditional Ugshapungo UNORCAC varieties vegetation volcanic volcanic ash water quality water systems watershed women Xavier Zapata Yanayacu Zapata Ríos zones
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