From prestonh@home.com Sat Oct 23 10:33:54 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA40528 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 10:33:53 -0700 Received: from newshub3.home.com (newshub3.home.com [24.0.0.37]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id KAA00372 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 10:33:52 -0700 Received: from C931275-A ([24.0.234.36]) by newshub3.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991023173348.FZAR25975.newshub3.home.com@C931275-A>; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 10:33:48 -0700 X-Sender: prestonh@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 10:35:33 -0700 To: indknow@u.washington.edu From: "Preston D. Hardison" Subject: Fwd: Traditional and Modern NRM Cc: EANTH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <19991023173348.FZAR25975.newshub3.home.com@C931275-A> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 From: Billie R Dewalt To: ENVIRONMENT IN LATIN AMERICA NETWORK Subject: Book Announcement (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 15:22:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Center for Latin American Studies Subject: Book Announcement Announcing an Important New Volume on Traditional Knowledge, Development, and the Environment in Latin America Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America Edited by Francisco J. Pichon, Jorge E. Uquillas, and John Frechione University of Pittsburgh Press Pitt Latin American Series Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America 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. In this book, which stems from a workshop held in 1995 at the World Bank, the editors make an eloquent case for the relevance of risk prone areas as a subject of study and the special role that indigenous knowledge plays in such poorly endowed regions. The volume is balanced-it does not advocate one approach over another, and it is multidisciplinary, including work by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and natural scientists. The nine chapters create a natural progression from conceptual issues to theory, applications, and synthesis, and contain a wealth of data, analyses, recommendations, and carefully considered opinions by experts who have been intimately involved over the long term in theoretical and practical work related to systems of natural resource management in Latin America. The volume addresses the topic of sustainability in a logical manner, considering practical concerns and lessons as well as theoretical perspectives. A number of conceptual and case studies highlight approaches that might succeed if World Bank and other multilateral and national funding sources are forthcoming. Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America addresses a topic that has gained worldwide interest, especially in relation to indigenous knowledge systems. Contents Introduction John Frechione Part 1. Characterizing and Conceptualizing the Problem Chaper 1 Rural Poverty Alleviation and Improved Natural Resource Management through Participatory Technology Development in Latin America's Risk-Prone Areas Francisco J. Pich6n and Jorge E. Uquillas Part 2. Theoretical and Practical Issues Chapter 2 Rural Development and Indigenous Resources: Toward a Geographic-Based Assessment Framework Bruce A. Wilcox Chapter 3 Combining Indigenous And Scientific Knowledge to Improve Agriculture And Natural Resource Management in Latin America Billie R. DeWalt Part 3. Case Studies Chapter 4 Organizing for Change3Organizing for Modernization?: Campesino Federations, Social Enterprise and Technical Change in Andean and Amazonian Resource Management Anthony J. Bebbington Chapter 5 Organizing Experimenting Farmers for Participation in Agricultural Research and Technology Development Jacqueline A. Ashby, Teresa Gracia, Mar6a del Pilar Guerrero, Carlos Arturo Quir6s, Jos5 Ignacio Roa, Jorge Alonso Beltr5n Chapter 6 Technologies for Sustainable Forest Management in the Northern Zone, Costa Rica Carlos Reiche Part 4. Indigenous/Local Knowledge Systems Chapter 7 Indigenous Knowledge for Agricultural Development D. Michael Warren Chapter 8 Local Knowledge Systems (LKS) in Latin America: Current Trends and Contributions Towards Sustainable Development Consuelo Quiroz Chapter 9 Biodiversity and Agroforestry along the Amazon Floodplain Nigel J.H. 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