Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America: Management In Latin America (Pitt Latin American Series) - Softcover

9780822957034: Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America: Management In Latin America (Pitt Latin American Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822957035 ISBN 13: 9780822957034

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999

This book identifies a major problem facing developing nations and the countries and sources that fund them: the lack of attention and/or effective strategies available to prevent farmers in underdeveloped and poorly endowed regions from sinking still deeper into poverty while avoiding further degradation of marginal environments. The contributors propose an alliance of scientific knowledge with native skill as the best way to proceed, arguing that folk systems can often provide effective management solutions that are not only locally effective, but which may have the potential for spatial diffusion. While this has been said before, the volume makes one of the best articulated statements of how to implement such an approach.

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About the Author:

Francisco J. Pich-n is a sociologist at the World Bank and is co-author, with Uquillas, of Sustainable Agriculture and Poverty Reduction in Latin America's Risk-Prone Areas: Opportunities and Challenges, a 1996 World Bank Report. He has contributed to numerous edited volumes and journals such as Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Development, Journal of Developing Areas, and the Journal of Development Studies.

Jorge E. Uquillas is a social scientist specializing in Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World Bank, and is coauthor, with Pich-n, of Sustainable Agriculture and Poverty Reduction in Latin America's Risk-Prone Areas: Opportunities and Challenges, a 1996 World Bank Report. He has contributed to a range of edited collections and journals such as Ecology of Food and Nutrition, American Journal of Human Biology, and the proceedings of the World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America.

John Frechione is associate director of the Center for Latin American Studies and adjunct associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1981. His interests include cultural and historical ecology, lowland neotropical populations, indigenous economic development and social change, and tropical forest ecosystems. He has carried out research over the last twenty years on ecological adaptations and economic self-development among indigenous populations in southern Venezuela and he is coauthor of Indigenous People and Development in Latin America: A Literature Survey and Recommendations.

Review:

“Traditional and Modern Approaches to Natural Resources Management in Latin America is the most comprehensive look at the constellation of programs, policies, and activities that determine the fate of this crucial region. A must read for anyone concerned with the global environment.”
--Environmental History

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