Main Description

Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are demanding that development must address localpriorities, including ethnic identity. Simultaneously, sustainability scientists need to conduct place-basedresearch on the interaction between environment and society that will have global relevance.This book reports on a 6 year interdisciplinary research project on natural resource management inCotacachi, Ecuador, where scientists and indigenous groups learnt to seek common ground. The bookdiscusses how local people and the environment have engaged each other over time to createcontemporary Andean landscapes. It also explores human-environment interaction in relation tobiodiversity, soils and water, and equitable development. This book will be of significant interest tosociologists, anthropologists, economists and sustainability scientists researching environment andagriculture in rural communities.

Readership

Researchers and policy makers in rural and sustainable development, sociology, economics and anthropology.

Main Contents

• Foreword, A T Males, Municipio del Canton Cotacachi, Ecuador
• Acknowledgements

• Linking Sustainability Science, Community and Culture: A Research Partnership in Cotacachi, Ecuador, R E Rhoades

• Shaping an Andean Landscape: Processes Affecting Topography, Soils, and Hydrology in Cotacachi, F Zehetner and W P Miller, University of Georgia, USA
• Incursion, Fragmentation and Tradition: Historical Ecology of Andean Cotacachi, A Shiloh Moates and B C Campbell, University of Georgia, USA
• Four Decades of Land Use Change in the Cotacachi Andes: 1963-2000, X Zapata Rios, SANREM-Andes Project, Ecuador, R E Rhoades, M C Segovia, SEK International University, Ecuador and F Zehetner
• Climate Change in Cotacachi, R E Rhoades, X Zapata Rios and J Aragundy, SANREM-Andes Project, Ecuador
• Traversing a Landscape of Memory, V D Nazarea, R Guitarra, UNORCAC, Cotacachi, Ecuador and R E Rhoades

• Biological Diversity in Cotacachi's Andean Forests, M Peñafiel, Alianza Jatun Sacha/CDC-Ecuador, Ecuador, M Tipan, Direccion Nacional de Recursos Naturales, Ecuador, L Nolivos and K Vásquez, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Ecuador
• Trees and Trade-Offs: Perceptions of Eucalyptus and Native Trees in Ecuadorian Highland Communities, A D Carse, University of North Carolina, USA
• Living, Dwindling, Losing, Finding: Status and Changes in Agrobiodiversity of Cotacachi, K Skarbø, Bygda, Stranda, Norway
• Women and Homegardens of Cotacachi, M Piniero, CATIE/NORAD, Guatemala
• Good to Eat, Good to Think: Food, Culture, and Biodiversity in Cotacachi, J Camacho, University of Georgia, USA

• Toward Sustainable Crop Production in Cotacachi: An Assessment of the Soils' Nutrient Status, F Zehetner and W P Miller
• Plant-Water Relations in an Andean Landscape: Modelling the Effect of Irrigation on Upland Crop Production, F Zehetner, W P Miller and X Zapata Ríos
• Water Quality and Human Needs in Cotacachi: the Pichavi Watershed, J Aragundy and X Zapata Ríos
• Local Resolution of Watershed Management Trade-Offs: The Case of Cotacachi, F Rodríguez with D Southgate, The Ohio State University, USA
• Community-Based Water Monitoring in Cotacachi, S S Ruiz-Cordóva, B L Duncan, W Deutsch and N Gómez, Auburn University, USA

• 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, G Flora, American Friends Service Committee, USA
• Social Capital and Advocacy Coalitions: Examples of Environment Issues from Ecuador, J L Flora, C B Flora, Iowa State University, USA, F Campana, M García Bravo, Heifer Project-Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador and E Fernández- Baza, Peru and Iowa State University, USA
• Future Visioning for the Andes: Scientific Models and Local Perspectives on Landuse Change, R E Rhoades and X Zapata Ríos
• Sustainability Science in Indigenous Communities: Reconciling and Global Agendas, R E Rhoades

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