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Resource Management in Amazonia

Darrell Addison Posey

Author : Darrell Addison Posey
Publisher : New York Botanical Garden Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN : MINN:31951D019650572

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Theoretical approaches to resource management. The culture of amazonian forests. Models of native and folk adaptation in the Amazon. Resource management in Amazonia before the conquest: beyond ethnographic projection. Process as resource: the traditional agricultural ideology of Bora and Huastec resource management and its implications for research. Use, perception, and manipulation of resources. Use of plant resources by the Chácobo. Rainy seasons and constellations: the desâna economic calendar. Yanoama horticulture in the Parima highlands of Venezuela Ka'apor case. Management of a tropical scrub savanna by the Gorotire Kayapó of Brazil. Preliminary results on soil management techniques of the Kayapó indians. Ecological basis of Amuesha agriculture, Peruvian upper Amazon. How the Machiguenga manage resources: conservation or exploitation of nature? Succession management and resource distribution in an Amazonian rain forest. Managing rivers of hunger: the Tukano of Brazil. A neglected human resource in Amazonia: the Amazon caboclo. The perception of ecological zones and natural resources in the Brazilian Amazon: an ethnoecology of Lake Coari.

Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia

Catarina A.S. Cardoso

Author : Catarina A.S. Cardoso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351733281

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Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia by Catarina A.S. Cardoso Pdf

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global political economy are often poorly understood. This book addresses these linkages in a grounded analysis of extractive reserves : areas in Brazil set aside for local populations who depend on natural resources for their livelihood. Extractive reserves are the result of the struggle of the rubber tappers for control over their natural resources and worldwide concern with the conservation of the Amazon Rainforest. The author examines their significance for Brazil as a pioneering legislative and policy initiative to combine conservation with productive use of natural resources, to recognize common property rights to natural resources, and to support traditional populations’ modes of production. Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia examines the formation and institutional sustainability of the reserves, and in so doing provides a valuable insight into the relationship between local institutions and the wider socio-political and economic context with regard to forest management.

Partnerships in Sustainable Forest Resource Management: Learning from Latin America

Mirjam Ros-Tonen

Author : Mirjam Ros-Tonen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789047410768

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Partnerships in Sustainable Forest Resource Management: Learning from Latin America by Mirjam Ros-Tonen Pdf

This book assembles experiences acquired with sustainable forest and tree resource management partnerships in various Latin American countries. It addresses the question of which conditions are necessary for partnerships to stimulate sustainable, socially just and pro-poor governance of forest resources.

Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management

Christian Castellanet,Carl F. Jordan

Author : Christian Castellanet,Carl F. Jordan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135465247

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Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management by Christian Castellanet,Carl F. Jordan Pdf

This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an approach to resource management that strives to link researchers with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by long-range conservation programmes. The authors begin the book with the history of PAR, and then use a variety of case studies that chronicle sustainable development efforts in Brazil. They evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these efforts and suggest specific ways to improve on future PAR efforts.

In Amazonia

Hugh Raffles

Author : Hugh Raffles
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400865277

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The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In Amazonia brings to life an Amazon whose allure and reality lie as much, or more, in what people have made of it as in what nature has wrought. It casts new light on centuries of encounter while describing the dramatic remaking of a sweeping landscape by residents of one small community in the Brazilian Amazon. Combining richly textured ethnographic research and lively historical analysis, Raffles weaves a fascinating story that changes our understanding of this region and challenges us to rethink what we mean by "nature." Raffles draws from a wide range of material to demonstrate--in contrast to the tendency to downplay human agency in the Amazon--that the region is an outcome of the intimately intertwined histories of humans and nonhumans. He moves between a detailed narrative that analyzes the production of scientific knowledge about Amazonia over the centuries and an absorbing account of the extraordinary transformations to the fluvial landscape carried out over the past forty years by the inhabitants of Igarapé Guariba, four hours downstream from the nearest city. Engagingly written, theoretically inventive, and vividly illustrated, the book introduces a diverse range of characters--from sixteenth-century explorers and their native rivals to nineteenth-century naturalists and contemporary ecologists, logging company executives, and river-traders. A natural history of a different kind, In Amazonia shows how humans, animals, rivers, and forests all participate in the making of a region that remains today at the center of debates in environmental politics.

Resource Management in Amazonia

Darrell Addison Posey

Author : Darrell Addison Posey
Publisher : New York Botanical Garden Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN : MINN:31951P00040072U

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Resource Management in Amazonia by Darrell Addison Posey Pdf

Theoretical approaches to resource management. The culture of amazonian forests. Models of native and folk adaptation in the Amazon. Resource management in Amazonia before the conquest: beyond ethnographic projection. Process as resource: the traditional agricultural ideology of Bora and Huastec resource management and its implications for research. Use, perception, and manipulation of resources. Use of plant resources by the Chácobo. Rainy seasons and constellations: the desâna economic calendar. Yanoama horticulture in the Parima highlands of Venezuela Ka'apor case. Management of a tropical scrub savanna by the Gorotire Kayapó of Brazil. Preliminary results on soil management techniques of the Kayapó indians. Ecological basis of Amuesha agriculture, Peruvian upper Amazon. How the Machiguenga manage resources: conservation or exploitation of nature? Succession management and resource distribution in an Amazonian rain forest. Managing rivers of hunger: the Tukano of Brazil. A neglected human resource in Amazonia: the Amazon caboclo. The perception of ecological zones and natural resources in the Brazilian Amazon: an ethnoecology of Lake Coari.

Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics

Darrell Addison Posey

Author : Darrell Addison Posey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 0415323630

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Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics by Darrell Addison Posey Pdf

This book presents seventeen of Posey's articles on the topics of ethnoentomology, indigenous knowledge, and intellectual property rights.

Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America

Francisco J. Pichon,John Frechione,Jorge E. Uquillas

Author : Francisco J. Pichon,John Frechione,Jorge E. Uquillas
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822975069

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Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America by Francisco J. Pichon,John Frechione,Jorge E. Uquillas Pdf

This book identifies a major problem facing developing nations and the countries and sources that fund them: the lack of attention and/or effective strategies available to prevent farmers in underdeveloped and poorly endowed regions from sinking still deeper into poverty while avoiding further degradation of marginal environments. The contributors propose an alliance of scientific knowledge with native skill as the best way to proceed, arguing that folk systems can often provide effective management solutions that are not only locally effective, but which may have the potential for spatial diffusion. While this has been said before, the volume makes one of the best articulated statements of how to implement such an approach.

Human Impacts on Amazonia

Darrell A. Posey,Michael J. Balick

Author : Darrell A. Posey,Michael J. Balick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231517355

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Human Impacts on Amazonia by Darrell A. Posey,Michael J. Balick Pdf

From the pre-Columbian era to the present, native Amazonians have shaped the land around them, emphasizing utilization, conservation, and sustainability. These priorities stand in stark contrast to colonial and contemporary exploitation of Amazonia by outside interests. With essays from environmental scientists, botanists, and anthropologists, this volume explores the various effects of human development on Amazonia. The contributors argue that by protecting and drawing on local knowledge and values, further environmental ruin can be avoided.

The Overstory Book

Craig R. Elevitch

Author : Craig R. Elevitch
Publisher : PAR
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780970254436

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The Overstory Book by Craig R. Elevitch Pdf

Whether in a small backyard or a larger farm or forest, trees are vital to the web of life. Protecting and planting trees can restore wildlife habitat, heal degraded land, conserve soil, protect watersheds, diversify farm or garden products, beautify landscapes, and enhance the economic and ecological viability of land use systems. Careful planning and sound information is needed to reach these goals. The Overstory Book distills essential information about working with trees into 134 short, easy-to-read, single-subject chapters. Each chapter shares key concepts and useful information, so readers can get back to planting and protecting more trees, gardens, and forests, more effectively. * Discover time-tested agricultural and conservation techniques from indigenous and traditional peoples * Work with beneficial microorganisms, from mycorrhizal fungi to nitrogen-fixing bacteria and more * Create abundance with fruit trees, timber trees, vine crops, vegetables, mushrooms, and more * Form alliances with animals, from wildlife, birds, and insects to integrated, free-range livestock * Design effective tree-based windbreaks, noise barriers, live fences, and erosion buffers * Understand how to grow or obtain the highest quality seeds, seedlings, and plant materials * Restore fertility, productivity, and biodiversity with trees * Work with multipurpose plants including trees, palms, bamboos, and more * Market products effectively to improve economic returns sustainably * Locate helpful internet sites, organizations, people, and publications * And much more!

Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision

William I. Woods,Wenceslau G. Teixeira,Johannes Lehmann,Christoph Steiner,Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins,Lilian Rebellato

Author : William I. Woods,Wenceslau G. Teixeira,Johannes Lehmann,Christoph Steiner,Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins,Lilian Rebellato
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781402090318

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Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision by William I. Woods,Wenceslau G. Teixeira,Johannes Lehmann,Christoph Steiner,Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins,Lilian Rebellato Pdf

Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary populations were present for over a millennium before European contact. Associated with these are tracts of anomalously fertile, dark soils termed ‘terra preta’ or dark earths. These soils are presently an important agricultural resource within Amazonia and provide a model for developing long-term future sustainability of food production in tropical environments. The late Dutch soil scientist Wim Sombroek (1934-2003) was instrumental in bringing the significance of these soils to the attention of the world over four decades ago. Wim saw not only the possibilities of improving the lives of small holders throughout the world with simple carbon based soil technologies, but was an early proponent of the positive synergies also achieved in regards to carbon sequestration and global climatic change abatement. Wim’s vision was to form a multidisciplinary group whose members maintained the ideal of open collaboration toward the attainment of shared goals. Always encouraged and often shaped by Wim, this free association of international scholars termed the “Terra Preta Nova” Group came together in 2001 and has flourished. This effort has been defined by enormous productivity. Wim who is never far from any of our minds and hearts, would have loved to share the great experience of seeing the fruits of his vision as demonstrated in this volume.

Sustainability in Natural Resources Management and Land Planning

Walter Leal Filho,Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro,Andréia Faraoni Freitas Setti

Author : Walter Leal Filho,Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro,Andréia Faraoni Freitas Setti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030766245

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Sustainability in Natural Resources Management and Land Planning by Walter Leal Filho,Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro,Andréia Faraoni Freitas Setti Pdf

This book includes contributions from scientists and representatives from government and non-governmental organisations working in the field of land management and use and on management of fires. The book is truly interdisciplinary and has both a research and application-oriented dimension. The list of topics includes sustainability and water management; sustainability and biodiversity conservation; the future sustainability of nature-based industries such as agriculture, mining, tourism, fisheries and forestry; sustainability, people and livelihoods; sustainability and landscapes planning; sustainability and land use planning; handling and managing forest fires. The papers are innovative and cross-cutting, and many have practice-based experiences. Also, this book, prepared by the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) and the World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre (WSD-RTC), reiterates the need to promote a sustainable use of land resources today.

Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management

Christian Castellanet,Carl F. Jordan

Author : Christian Castellanet,Carl F. Jordan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135465247

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Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management by Christian Castellanet,Carl F. Jordan Pdf

This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an approach to resource management that strives to link researchers with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by long-range conservation programmes. The authors begin the book with the history of PAR, and then use a variety of case studies that chronicle sustainable development efforts in Brazil. They evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these efforts and suggest specific ways to improve on future PAR efforts.

Cultural Forests of the Amazon

William Balée

Author : William Balée
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780817317867

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Cultural Forests of the Amazon by William Balée Pdf

Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award. Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world. Until recently, most scholars and scientists, as well as the general public, thought indigenous people had a minimal impact on Amazon forests, once considered to be total wildernesses. William Balée’s research, conducted over a span of three decades, shows a more complicated truth. In Cultural Forests of the Amazon, he argues that indigenous people, past and present, have time and time again profoundly transformed nature into culture. Moreover, they have done so using their traditional knowledge and technology developed over thousands of years. Balée demonstrates the inestimable value of indigenous knowledge in providing guideposts for a potentially less destructive future for environments and biota in the Amazon. He shows that we can no longer think about species and landscape diversity in any tropical forest without taking into account the intricacies of human history and the impact of all forms of knowledge and technology. Balée describes the development of his historical ecology approach in Amazonia, along with important material on little-known forest dwellers and their habitats, current thinking in Amazonian historical ecology, and a narrative of his own dialogue with the Amazon and its people.

In Search of the Rain Forest

Candace Slater

Author : Candace Slater
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822385271

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In Search of the Rain Forest by Candace Slater Pdf

The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part of today’s rain forests as are the array of plants and animals. In attending to these complexities, this volume focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these characterizations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines—history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology—the contributors provide case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They point the way toward a search for a rain forest that is both a natural entity and a social history, an inhabited place and a shifting set of ideas. The essayists demonstrate how the single image of a wild and yet fragile forest became fixed in the popular mind in the late twentieth century, thereby influencing the policies of corporations, environmental groups, and governments. Such simplistic conceptions, In Search of the Rain Forest shows, might lead companies to tout their “green” technologies even as they try to downplay the dissenting voices of native populations. Or they might cause a government to create a tiger reserve that displaces peaceful peasants while opening the doors to poachers and bandits. By encouraging a nuanced understanding of distinctive, constantly evolving forests with different social and natural histories, this volume provides an important impetus for protection efforts that take into account the rain forest in all of its complexity. Contributors. Scott Fedick, Alex Greene, Paul Greenough, Nancy Peluso, Suzana Sawyer, Candace Slater, Charles Zerner

Resource Management In Amazonia

Resource Management in Amazonia by Darrell Addison Posey Pdf

Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia by Catarina A.S. Cardoso Pdf

Partnerships in Sustainable Forest Resource Management: Learning from Latin America by Mirjam Ros-Tonen Pdf

Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management by Christian Castellanet,Carl F. Jordan Pdf

In Amazonia by Hugh Raffles Pdf

Resource Management in Amazonia by Darrell Addison Posey Pdf

Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics by Darrell Addison Posey Pdf

Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America by Francisco J. Pichon,John Frechione,Jorge E. Uquillas Pdf

Human Impacts on Amazonia by Darrell A. Posey,Michael J. Balick Pdf

The Overstory Book by Craig R. Elevitch Pdf

Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision by William I. Woods,Wenceslau G. Teixeira,Johannes Lehmann,Christoph Steiner,Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins,Lilian Rebellato Pdf

Sustainability in Natural Resources Management and Land Planning by Walter Leal Filho,Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro,Andréia Faraoni Freitas Setti Pdf

Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management by Christian Castellanet,Carl F. Jordan Pdf

Cultural Forests of the Amazon by William Balée Pdf

In Search of the Rain Forest by Candace Slater Pdf

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