Conservation of Neotropical Forests

Working from Traditional Resource Use

By: Kent Redford (Editor), Christine Padoch (Editor)

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Hardcover | 12 November 1992 | Edition Number 1

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Two of the great crises facing our generation are the destruction of the tropical forests and the widespread poverty of the tens of millions of rural people who live there. "Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use" provides an information base for understanding the lowland Neotropical forest environment. Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch have assembled a group of experts from both the natural and the social sciences to critically review existing data describing patterns of traditional resource use by inhabitants of Neotropical forests. These contributors, innovators of the most promising work in cultural and biodiversity conservation, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of research to date. Their identification of gaps in existing disciplinary and interdisciplinary work leads to potential new directions for research.

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"Successfully bridges the gap between conservationists, anthropologists, and economists. Though it deals specifically with neotropical forests, it is essential reading for anyone involved in conservation of forests and their inhabitants, human or non-human, in all parts of the globe." -- "The Environmentalist"

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Preface	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Traditional Peoples and the Biosphere: Framing the Issues and Defining the Terms	p. 3
Indigenous Peoples
Introduction	p. 17
Interpreting and Applying the "Reality" of Indigenous Concepts: What Is Necessary to Learn from the Natives?	p. 21
People of the Fallow: A Historical Ecology of Foraging in Lowland South America	p. 35
Traditional Productive Systems of the Awa (Cuaiquer) Indians of Southwestern Colombia and Neighboring Ecuador	p. 58
Resource Use, Traditional Technology, and Change Among Native Peoples of Lowland South America	p. 83
Neotropical Indigenous Hunters and Their Neighbors: Siriono, Chimane, and Yuqui Hunting on the Bolivian Frontier	p. 108
Folk Societies
Introduction	p. 131
Caboclo and Ribereno Resource Management in Amazonia: A Review	p. 134
Diversity, Variation, and Change in Ribereno Agriculture	p. 158
The Logic of Extraction: Resource Management and Income Generation by Extractive Producers in the Amazon Estuary	p. 175
Case Studies of Resource Management Projects in Protected and Unprotected Areas: Institutional Perspectives
Introduction	p. 203
Xateros, Chicleros, and Pimenteros: Harvesting Renewable Tropical Forest Resources in the Guatemalan Peten	p. 208
The Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area of Belize	p. 220
The Chimane Conservation Program in Beni, Bolivia: An Effort for Local Participation	p. 228
The Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve: Human Needs and Natural Resource Conservation in the Ecuadorian Amazon	p. 245
The Wildlands and Human Needs Program: Putting Rural Development to Work for Conservation	p. 259
Building Institutions for Sustainable Development in Acre, Brazil	p. 276
New Directions in Research and Action
Introduction	p. 301
Amuesha Forest Use and Management: An Integration of Indigenous Use and Natural Forest Management	p. 305
Incorporation of Game Animals into Small-Scale Agroforestry Systems in the Neotropics	p. 333
Common Property Resources in the Neotropics: Theory, Management Progress, and an Action Agenda	p. 359
Valuing Land Uses in Amazonia: Colonist Agriculture, Cattle, and Petty Extraction in Comparative Perspective	p. 379
Buying in the Forests: A New Program to Market Sustainably Collected Tropical Forest Products Protects Forests and Forest Residents	p. 400
Neotropical Moist Forests: Priorities for the Next Two Decades	p. 416
Index	p. 435
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