Development with identity : community, culture and sustainability in the Andes / / edited by Robert E. Rhoades

• Pubblicazione: Wallingford, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CABI Publishing, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.1/6/0986612
• Soggetto topico: Sustainable development - Ecuador - Cotacachi; Sustainable agriculture - Ecuador - Cotacachi; Land use - Ecuador - Cotacachi
• Altri autori: RhoadesRobert E
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Penafiel, Marco Tipan, Lincoln Nolivos and Karla Vasquez -- 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 Skarb -- 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 Rios -- Water quality and human needs in Cotacachi : the Pichavi watershed / Jenny Aragundy and Xavier Zapata Rios -- Local resolution of watershed management trade-offs : the case of Cotacachi / Fabian Rodriguez with Douglas Southgate -- Community-based water monitoring in Cotacachi / Sergio S. Ruiz-Cordova, Bryan L. Duncan, William Deutsch and Nicolas Gomez -- 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 Garcia Bravo and Edith Fernandez-Baca -- Future visioning for the Cotacachi Andes : scientific models and local perspectives on land use change / Robert E. Rhoades and Xavier Zapata Rios -- Sustainability science in indigenous communities : reconciling local and global agendas / Robert E. Rhoades.
• Sommario/riassunto: Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are demanding that development must address local priorities, including ethnic identity. Simultaneously, sustainability scientists need to conduct place-based research on the interaction between environment and society which will have global relevance. This book reports on a six-year interdisciplinary research project on natural resource management in Cotacachi, Ecuador, where scientists and indigenous groups learn to seek common ground. The book discusses how local people and the environment have engaged each other over time to create contemporary
• Titolo autorizzato: Development with identity
• ISBN: 1-280-73576-7; 9786610735761; 1-84593-003-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910446332003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II