Human-Environment Interactions

Foreword by Elinor Ostrom Introduction Part I: Health and Adaptation Approaches 1. A Half-Century Portrait: Health Transition in the Xavante Indians from Central Brazil 2. Balancing People, Politics, and Resources in Rural Tibet 3. Human-Wildlife Contact and Emerging Infectious Diseases Part II: Land Change and Landscape Management Approaches 4. Change in Natural Resource Management: An Experiment with 'Participatory GIS' 5. Peopled Parks: Forest Change in India's Protected Landscapes 6. Public-Private Interactions in the Conservation of Private Forests in the United States 7. The Monitoring of Land-Cover Change and Management across Gradient Landscapes in Africa Part III: Institutional and Political Ecology Approaches 8. Between Cooperation and Conflict: The Implementation of Agro-Extractive Settlements in the Lower Amazonian Floodplain 9. Conservation of Natural Resources: Which Matters -Having a Regulation or the Size of the Penalty Imposed? 10. Small-Scale Farmers and the Challenges of Environmental Conservation and Rural Development: Case Studies from the State of Sao Paulo and the Amazon Region 11. Institutional Evolution, Forest Conservation, and Rapid Change in Rural Honduras 12. Land-Use Institutions and Natural Resources in Fast-Growing Communities at the Urban-Rural Fringe Part IV: Historical and Archeological Approaches 13. Agroforestry in Tome-Acu-An Alternative to Pasture in the Amazon 14. Changing Driving Forces, Imposed Tenure Regimes, and Tree-Cover Change on Village Landscapes in the West Mengo Region of Uganda, 1890 to 2002 15. Was Agriculture a Key Productive Activity in Precolonial Amazonia? The Stable Productive Basis for Social Equality in the Central Amazon Part V. Future Directions 16. Human-Environment Research: Past Trends, Current Challenges and Future Directions Index