Development with identity
Subtitle: community, culture, and sustainability in the Andes
By: edited by Robert E. Rhoades.
Contributors: Rhoades, Robert E.
Publisher: CABI Publishing
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK; Cambridge, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780851999494
Subjects: Sustainable development -- Ecuador -- Cotacachi; Sustainable agriculture -- Ecuador -- Cotacachi; Land use -- Ecuador -- Cotacachi
Description: "This book reports on a 6-year interdisciplinary research project on 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 Andean landscapes. Human-environment interaction in relation to biodiversity, soils and water, and equitable development are also discussed. This book will be of interest to social and biological scientists researching environment and agriculture in rural communities."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Linking sustainability science, community and culture: a research partnership in Cotacachi, Ecuador / Robert E. Rhoades; title: Shaping an Andean landscape: processes affecting topography, soils, and hydrology in Cotacachi / Franz Zehetner and William P. Miller; title: Incursion, fragmentation and tradition: historical ecology of Andean Cotacachi / A. Shiloh Moates and B.C. Campbell; title: Four decades of land use change in the Cotacachi Andes, 1963-2000 / Xavier Zapata Rios, Robert E. Rhoades, Maria Claudia Segovia and Franz Zehetner; title: Climate change in Cotacachi / Robert E. Rhoades, Xavier Zapata Rios and Jenny Aragundy; title: Traversing a landscape of memory / Virginia D. Nazarea, Rafael Guitarra and Robert E. Rhoades; title: Biological diversity in Cotacachi's Andean forests / Marcia Peñafiel, Marco Tipan, Lincoln Nolivos and Karla Vásquez; title: Trees and trade-offs: perceptions of eucalyptus and native trees in Ecuadorian highland communities / Ashley D. Carse; title: Living, dwindling, losing, finding: status and changes in agrobiodiversity of Cotacachi / Kristine Skarb; title: Women and homegardens of Cotacachi / Maricel Piniero; title: Good to eat, good to think: food, culture, and biodiversity in Cotacachi / Juana Camacho; title: Toward sustainable crop production in Cotacachi: an assessment of the soils' nutrient status / Franz Zehetner and William P. Miller; title: Plant-water relations in an Andean landscape: modelling the effect of irrigation on upland crop production / Franz Zehetner, William P. Miller and Xavier Zapata Ríos; title: Water quality and human needs in Cotacachi: the Pichavi watershed / Jenny Aragundy and Xavier Zapata Ríos; title: Local resolution of watershed management trade-offs: the case of Cotacachi / Fabián Rodríguez with Douglas Southgate; title: Community-based water monitoring in Cotacachi / Sergio S. Ruiz-Cordóva, Bryan L. Duncan, William Deutsch and Nicolás Gómez; title: Why is the earth tired? a comparative analysis of agricultural change and intervention in northern Ecuador / B.C. Campbell; title: Circular migration and community identity: their relationship to the land / Gabriela Flora; title: 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-Baza; title: Future visioning for the Andes: scientific models and local perspectives on landuse change / Robert E. Rhoades and Xavier Zapata Ríos; title: Sustainability science in indigenous communities: reconciling and global agendas / Robert E. Rhoades.