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Desarrollo con Identidad: Comunidad, Cultura, y Sustentabilidad en los Andes

This book uses the county of Cotacachi, Ecuador as a basis of representation for sustainable development through participatory processes. The book begins with an identification of […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): R.E. Rhoades (ed.)
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Development with Identity: Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes

This book uses the county of Cotacachi, Ecuador as a basis of representation for sustainable development through participatory processes. The book begins with an identification of […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): R.E. Rhoades (ed.)
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Future visioning for the Andes: Scientific models and local perspectives on landuse change

Summarizing the theme of sustainability in watershed and ecosystem management, Chapter 20 discusses the use of the future visioning methodology to craft long term Goals for […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): R.E. Rhoades; X. Zapata Rios
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Climate change in Cotacachi

The fifth chapter uses a combination of satellite imagery and interviews to understand the loss of glaciers in the Andes. While symptomatic of seasonal change and […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): R.E. Rhoades; X. Zapata Rios; J. Aragundy
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Local resolution of watershed management trade-offs: The case of Cotacachi

Chapter 15 critically examines drinking water in Cotacachi through the application of a number of mathematical models. The purpose of this study is to measure how […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): F. Rodriguez; D. Southgate
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Local resolution of watershed management trade-offs: The case of Cotacachi

Abstract: Economists have developed various techniques for evaluating natural resources in the absence of price signals, including what is known as contingent valuation (CV). This methodology […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): F. Rodriguez; D. Southgate
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Community-based water monitoring in Cotacachi

This chapter discusses some of the main ramifications of Cotacachi’s unsafe and unreliable water supply. In particular, water is a public health issue, becoming a primary […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): S.S. Ruiz-Cordova; B.L. Duncan; W. Deustch; N. Gomez
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Climate change: Why worry?

Abstract: This presentation reviewed the current state of knowledge related to anthropogenically forced global climate change and projections from climate model simulations performed for the IPCC […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): A. Seth
  • Type of Document: Media

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Incursion, fragmentation and tradition: Historical ecology of Andean Cotacachi

This third chapter provides a developed discussion of the various zones of agricultural production existing in Cotacachi as dictated by water availability and elevation. The history […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): A. Shiloh Moates; B.C. Campbell
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Living, dwindling, losing, finding: Status and changes in agrobiodiversity of Cotacachi

The ninth chapter of the book examines the modern and historic relationship between indigenous and European mechanisms for production. Historically, native production methods have been viewed […]

  • Date of Publication: 2006
  • Author(s): K. Skarbø
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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