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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rhoades, Robert E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Ecuador--Cotacachi.

Sustainable development.

Sustainable agriculture--Ecuador--Cotacachi.

Sustainable agriculture.

Land use--Ecuador--Cotacachi.

Land use.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Publishing, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-73576-7

9786610735761

1-84593-003-7

OCLC:

228144238