Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use

Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use

ISBN-10:
0231076029
ISBN-13:
9780231076029
Pub. Date:
11/12/1992
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use

Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use

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Overview

The destruction of tropical forests is intimately intertwined with the fate of the rural poor who rely on this resource for their livelihood. Conservation of Neotropical Forests provides important information for understanding the interactions of forest peoples and forest resources in the lowland tropics of Central and South America. This interdisciplinary study features experts from both the natural and social sciences to illuminate the present dilemma of conserving neotropical resources. These contributors—who are responsible for some of the most promising work in cultural and biodiversity conservation—investigate the patterns of traditional resource use, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing research, and explore innovative directions for furthering the interdisciplinary conservationist agenda.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780231076029
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/12/1992
Series: Biology and Resource Management Series
Pages: 475
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Kent H. Redford is director of the international program for Biodiversity Analysis and Coordination at the Wildlife Conservation Society. He has done extensive field research in Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia and has published many scientific papers.

Christine Padoch is associate scientist, Institute of Economic Botany.

Table of Contents

1. Traditional Peoples and the Biosphere: Framing the Issues and Defining the Terms, by Marianne Schmink, Kent H. Redford, and Christine Padoch
I. Indigenous Peoples: Introduction, by Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch
2. Interpreting and Applying the "Reality" of Indigenous Concepts: What is Necessary to Learn from the Natives?, by Darrell Addison Posey
3. People of the Fallow: A Historical Ecology of Foraging in Lowland South America, by William Balee
4. Traditional Productive Systems of the Awa (Cuaiquer) Indians of Southwestern Colombia and Neighboring Ecuador, by Jorge E. Orejuela
5. Resource Use, Traditional Technology, and Change Among Native Peoples of Lowland South America, by Hillard Kaplan and Kate Kopischke
6. Neotropical Indigenous Hunters and Their Neighbors: Siriono, Chimane, and Yuqui Hunting on the Bolivian Fronteir, by Allyn MacLean Stearman
II. Folk Societies: Introduction, by Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch
7. Caboclo and Ribereno Resource Management in Amazonia: A Review, by Mario Hiraoka
8. Diversity, Variation, and Change in Ribereno Agriculture, by Christine Padoch and Wil De Jong
9. The Logic of Extraction: Resource Management and Income Generation by Extractive Producers in the Amazon Estuary, by Anthony B. Anderson and Edviges Marta Ioris
III. Case Studies of Resource Management Projects in Protected and Unprotected Areas: Institutional Perspectives: Introduction, by Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch
10. Xateros, Chicleros, and Pimenteros: Harvesting Renewable Tropical Forest Resources in the Guatemalan Peten, by James D. Nations
11. The Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area of Belize, by F. William Burley
12. The Chimane Conservation Program in Beni, Bolivia: An Effort for Local Participation, by Liliana C. Campos Dudley
13. The Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve: Human Needs and Natural Resource Conservation in the Ecuadorian Amazon, by Flavio Coello Hinojosa
14. The Wildlands and Human Needs Program: Putting Rural Development to Work for Conservation, by Dennis Glick and Michael Wright
15. Building Institutions for Sustainable Development in Acre, Brazil, by Marianne Schmink
IV. New Directions in Research and Action: Introduction, by Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch
16. Amuesha Forest Use and Management: An Integration of Indigenous Use and Natural Forest Management, by Jan Salick
17. Incorporation of Game Animals into Small-Scale Agroforestry Systems in the Neotropics, by Kent H. Redford, Bert Klein, and Carolina Murcia
18. Common Property Resources in the Neotropics: Theory, Management Progress, and an Action Agenda, by Peter H. May
19. Valuing Land Uses in Amazonia: Colonist Agriculture, Cattle, and Petty Extraction in Comparative Perspective, by Susanne B. Hecht
20. Buying in the Forests: A New Program to Market Sustainably Collected Tropical Forest Products Protects Forest and Forest Residents, by Jason Clay
21. Neotropical Moist Forests: Priorities for the Next Two Decades, by Robert J.A. Goodland
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