Development with Identity ：Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes

Publication subTitle ：Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes

Author： Rhoades   R.E.  

Publisher： CABI Publishing‎

Publication year： 2006

E-ISBN: 9781845930035

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780851999494

Subject： C91 Sociology;F3 Agricultural Economy

Keyword： Rural Planning

Language： ENG

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Description

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 that will have global relevance. This book reports on a 6 year interdisciplinary research project on natural resource management in Cotacachi, Ecuador, where scientists and indigenous groups learnt to seek common ground. The book discusses how local people and the environment have engaged each other over time to create contemporary Andean landscapes. It also explores human-environment interaction in relation to biodiversity, soils and water, and equitable development. This book will be of significant interest to sociologists, anthropologists, economists and sustainability scientists researching environment and agriculture in rural communities.

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Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

1 Linking Sustainability Science, Community and Culture: a Research Partnership in Cotacachi, Ecuador

PART I: TIME AND LANDSCAPE IN COTACACHI

2 Shaping an Andean Landscape: Processes Affecting Topography, Soils and Hydrology in Cotacachi

3 Incursion, Fragmentation and Tradition: Historical Ecology of Andean Cotacachi

4 Four Decades of Land Use Change in the Cotacachi Andes: 1963–2000

5 Climate Change in Cotacachi

6 Traversing a Landscape of Memory

PART II: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND USE

7 Biological Diversity in Cotacachi’s Andean Forests

8 Trees and Trade-offs: Perceptions of Eucalyptus and Native Trees in Ecuadorian Highland Communities

9 Living, Dwindling, Losing, Finding: Status and Changes in Agrobiodiversity of Cotacachi

10 Women and Homegardens of Cotacachi

11 Good to Eat, Good to Think: Food, Culture and Biodiversity in Cotacachi

PART III: SOILS, WATER AND SUSTAINABILITY

12 Toward Sustainable Crop Production in Cotacachi: an Assessment of the Soils’ Nutrient Status

13 Plant–Water Relationships in an Andean Landscape: Modelling the Effect of Irrigation on Upland Crop Production

14 Water Quality and Human Needs in Cotacachi: the Pichavi Watershed

15 Local Resolution of Watershed Management Trade-offs: the Case of Cotacachi

16 Community-based Water Monitoring in Cotacachi

PART IV: NEGOTIATING ‘DEVELOPMENT WITH IDENTITY’

17 Why is the Earth Tired? A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Change and Intervention in Northern Ecuador

18 Circular Migration and Community Identity: Their Relationship to the Land

19 Social Capital and Advocacy Coalitions: Examples of Environment Issues from Ecuador

20 Future Visioning for the Cotacachi Andes: Scientific Models and Local Perspectives on Land Use Change

21 Sustainability Science in Indigenous Communities: Reconciling Local and Global Agendas

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