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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Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, MA :
CABI Pub.,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- Linking sustainability science, community and culture : a research partnership in Cotacachi, Ecuador
- Shaping an Andean landscape : processes affecting topography, soils and hydrology in Cotacachi
- Incursion, fragmentation and tradition : historical ecology of Andean Cotacachi
- Four decades of land use change in the Cotacachi Andes : 1963-2000
- Climate change in Cotacachi
- Traversing a landscape of memory
- Biological diversity in Cotacachi's Andean forests
- Trees and trade-offs : perceptions of eucalyptus and native trees in Ecuadorian highland communities
- Living, dwindling, losing, finding : status and changes in agrobiodiversity of Cotacachi
- Women and homegardens of Cotacachi
- Good to eat, good to think : food, culture and biodiversity in Cotacachi
- Toward sustainable crop production in Cotacachi : an assessment of the soils' nutrient status
- Plant-water relationships in an Andean landscape : modelling the effect of irrigation on upland crop production
- Water quality and human needs in Cotacachi : the Pichavi watershed
- Local resolution of watershed management trade-offs : the case of Cotacachi
- Community-based water monitoring in Cotacachi
- Why is the earth tired? : a comparative analysis of agricultural change and intervention in northern Ecuador
- Circular migration and community identity : their relationship to the land
- Social capital and advocacy coalitions : examples of environment issues from Ecuador
- Future visioning for the Cotacachi Andes : scientific models and local perspectives on land use change
- Sustainability science in indigenous communities : reconciling local and global agendas.