Sustainable Agriculture & Natural Resource Management (SANREM)

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Landscapes, memories and water: Narratives, perceptions and policy-making on land and water in Monteverde, Costa Rica

This report focuses on situations displayed in (3) and (4), where policy-makers and science fail to take into account people’s sets of perceptions and the particular […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): I.T. Porras; M. Miranda
  • Type of Document: Research Report

Cost-effective agri-environmental payment programs: U.S. experience in theory and practice

This presentation describes the objectives and types of PES (payments for environmental services) programs in the United States. The cost-effectiveness of various aspects of program approaches […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): R. Claassen; A. Cattaneo; R. Johansson
  • Type of Document: Media

El Canton Cotacachi: Espacio y Sociedad

El proyecto Agricultura Sustentable y Manejo de Recursos Naturales SANREM -, ha tenido como meta global desarrollar principios y metodologias para el manejo sustentable de ecosistema […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): R. Rhoades; N. Gomez; J. Hidalgo; F. Lopez; A. Vicuna (eds.)
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Seeking half our brains: Constraints and incentives in the social context of interdiciplinary research and development

This chapter describes the relationship between the biological sciences and social sciences in development work. It is argued that despite conceptions of agriculture as a technical […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): R.E. Rhoades
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Cotacachi: A case study in governance and decentralization

Invited paper presented at International Conference on Mountain Governance and Decentralization: Banff Centre, Canada, 4-8 June 2005

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): R.E. Rhoades
  • Type of Document: Media

Mapping and Modeling Land Use Change in the Andes: Integrating Global and Local Visions

Presented at Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 8, 2005.

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): Robert E. Rhoades
  • Type of Document: Media

Fresh tracks in the forest: Assessing incipient payments for environmental services initiatives in Bolivia

This study provides an Overview and assessment of environmental, economic and social effects of various PES-related initiatives as well as an Overview of challenges and promoting […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): N. Robertson; S. Wunder
  • Type of Document: Research Report

Huellas frescas en el bosque: Evaluacion de iniciativas incipientes de pagos por servicios ambientales en Bolivia

Se examinaron 17 iniciativas, emplazadas en distintas partes de Bolivia, que estaban en curso o bien en preparacion. Se analizaron minuciosamente nueve de estas, las cuales […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): N. Robertson; S. Wunder
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Economic development and environmental management in the uplands of Southeast Asia: Challenges for policy and institutional development

This paper presents a case study from the Philippines to describe the challenges of conflicting environmental concerns and economic forces in the uplands of Southeast Asia. […]

  • Date of Publication: 2005
  • Author(s): A.C. Rola; I. Coxhead
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article