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

Development with Identity: Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes
ISBN-10
1845930037
ISBN-13
9781845930035
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
325
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
CABI
Author
Robert E. Rhoades

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.

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