Development with identity : community, culture and sustainability in the Andes /

This book reports on a 6-year interdisciplinary research project on sustainable agriculture and natural resource management in Cotacachi, Ecuador, where scientists and indigenous groups seek common ground. It discusses how local people have engaged the environment over time to create contemporary An...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rhoades, Robert E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., ©2006.
Colección:CAB books.
Temas:
Sustainable development > Ecuador > Cotacachi.
Sustainable agriculture > Ecuador > Cotacachi.
Land use > Ecuador > Cotacachi.
Développement durable > Équateur > Cotacachi.
Agriculture durable > Équateur > Cotacachi.
Utilisation du sol > Équateur > Cotacachi.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Man.
Agricultural development.
Biodiversity.
Human ecology.
Landscape.
Natural resources.
Regional development.
Resource management.
Rural development.
Soil resources.
Sustainability.
Traditional society.
Water resources.
Land use
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable development
Ecuador > Cotacachi
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Linking sustainability science, community and culture : a research partnership in Cotacachi, Ecuador / Robert E. Rhoades
  • Shaping an Andean landscape : processes affecting topography, soils and hydrology in Cotacachi / Franz Zehetner and William P. Miller
  • Incursion, fragmentation and tradition : historical ecology of Andean Cotacachi / A. Shiloh Moates and B.C. Campbell
  • Four decades of land use change in the Cotacachi Andes : 1963-2000 / Xavier Zapata Rios, Robert E. Rhoades, Maria Claudia Segovia and Franz Zehetner
  • Climate change in Cotacachi / Robert E. Rhoades, Xavier Zapata Rios and Jenny Aragundy
  • Traversing a landscape of memory / Virginia D. Nazarea, Rafael Guitarra and Robert E. Rhoades
  • Biological diversity in Cotacachi's Andean forests / Marcia Peñafiel, Marco Tipán, Lincoln Nolivos and Karla Vásquez
  • Trees and trade-offs : perceptions of eucalyptus and native trees in Ecuadorian highland communities / Ashley D. Carse
  • Living, dwindling, losing, finding : status and changes in agrobiodiversity of Cotacachi / Kristine Skarbø
  • Women and homegardens of Cotacachi / Maricel C. Piniero
  • Good to eat, good to think : food, culture and biodiversity in Cotacachi / Juana Camacho
  • Toward sustainable crop production in Cotacachi : an assessment of the soils' nutrient status / Franz Zehetner and William P. Miller
  • Plant-water relationships in an Andean landscape : modelling the effect of irrigation on upland crop production / Franz Zehetner, William P. Miller and Xavier Zapata Ríos
  • Water quality and human needs in Cotacachi : the Pichavi watershed / Jenny Aragundy and Xavier Zapata Ríos
  • Local resolution of watershed management trade-offs : the case of Cotacachi / Fabián Rodríguez with Douglas Southgate
  • Community-based water monitoring in Cotacachi / Sergio S. Ruiz-Cordóva, Bryan L. Duncan, William Deutsch and Nicolás Gómez
  • Why is the earth tired? : a comparative analysis of agricultural change and intervention in northern Ecuador / B.C. Campbell
  • Circular migration and community identity : their relationship to the land / Gabriela Flora
  • Social capital and advocacy coalitions : examples of environment issues from Ecuador / Jan L. Flora, Cornelia B. Flora, Florencia Campana, Mary García Bravo and Edith Fernández-Baca
  • Future visioning for the Cotacachi Andes : scientific models and local perspectives on land use change / Robert E. Rhoades and Xavier Zapata Ríos
  • Sustainability science in indigenous communities : reconciling local and global agendas / Robert E. Rhoades.

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