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 ofAgro-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 São 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 Tomé-Açu-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