Lands at risk in the Third World : local-level perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Boulder : Westview Press, 1987. |
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| Description: | xiii, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in development anthropology |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/828365 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Social Science Perspectives on Land, Ecology, and Development
- References
- Part 1. Models of Resource Management
- 1. Labor Scarcity and Ecological Change
- Summary and Conclusions
- Notes
- 2. The """"Political Ecology"""" of Amazonia
- References
- 3. Insiders and Outsiders in Baluchistan: Western and Indigenous Perspectives on Ecology and Development
- References
- 4. Monitoring Fertility Degradation of Agricultural Lands in the Lowland Tropics1
- Notes
- References
- Part 2. the Role of the State
- 5. The Political Economy of Desertification in White Nile Province, Sudan1
- Notes
- Notes
- 6. Impact of Fuelwood Use on Environmental Degradation in the Sudan1
- 7. Bringing Land Back In: Changing Strategies to Improve Agricultural Production in the West African Sahel1
- Notes
- References
- 8. Unequal Exchange: The Dynamics of Settler Impoverishment and Environmental Destruction in Lowland Bolivia1
- Notes
- References
- Part 3. Changing Rights to Land and Other Resources
- 9. Land Use Conflicts in the Agricultural/Pastoral Borderlands: The Case of Kenya
- Notes
- References
- 10. Ecology and Land Use Changes in the Semiarid Zone of the Sudan
- References
- 11. The Politics of Lands at Risk in a Philippine Frontier1
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 12. Lands at Risk, People at Risk: Perspectives on Tropical Forest Transformations in the Philippines
- Conclusions
- References
- Part 4. Local Management Strategies
- 13. Diversity and Change in Andean Agriculture1
- References
- 14. Intensification and Degradation in the Agricultural Systems of the Peruvian Upper Jungle: The Upper Huallaga Case1
- References
- Notes
- 15. The Development Potential of the Guinea Savanna: Social and Ecological Constraints in the West African """"Middle Belt""""1
- Conclusions Conservation and Development
- Notes
- 16. Rehabilitation Efforts and Household Production Strategies: The New Halfa Agricultural Scheme in Eastern Sudan
- References
- 17. The Local Impact of Centralized Irrigation Control in Pakistan: A Sociocentric Perspective1
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Notes
- 18. Conservation and Society in Nepal: Traditional Forest Management and Innovative Development1
- Notes
- References
- Notes on Contributors
- Index