Scenarios as a decision-support tool for natural resource management: Future visioning in Ecuador
Excerpt: Scenarios are not prediction, projection, forecasting, impact assessment or dialogue, instead scenarios stimulate creative ways of thinking or visioning that help stakeholders break out of […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): R. Rhoades
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Scientific modeling and local visions of sustainability and the future: A new method for natural resource community-based planning
After more than a decade of participatory, multi-scale, multi-objectives and multi-stakeholder sustainable agriculture and natural resource research at the watershed and landscape levels, a number of […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): R. Rhoades
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Bridging Human and Ecological Landscapes: Participatory Research and Sustainable Development in an Andean Agricultural Frontier
Table of Contents: Introduction 1. Breaking New Ground: Linking Research, Participation and Sustainable Development / Rhoades Part 1. People and Land of Nanegal: History, Migration, and […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): R. Rhoades (ed)
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Tendiendo Puentes Entre Los Paisajes Humanos Y Naturales: La investigacion participativa y el desarrollo ecologico en una frontera agricola andina
DESCRIPTION: This book synthesizes the results of the SANREM program in the Nanegal parish, Pinchincha Province, Ecuador. The region, located between the Guayllabamba and Alambi rivers […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): R. Rhoades (ed)
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Integrated Conservation and Development in Tropical America: Experiences and Lessons in Linking Communities, Projects, and Policies
Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Preface List of Contributors Introduction Part 1. Using Local and Scientific Knowledge for ICDP Planning, Implementation and Monitoring Part 2. Resolving Conflicts […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): R. Rhoades; J. Stallings (eds.)
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Global water watch in the Andes
Abstract: An “offspring” of SANREM Philippines experience, the Water Resources Management and Environmental Education activity in the Andes is approaching problems of water through community-based, participatory […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): S. Ruiz-Cordova; B. Duncan
- Type of Document: Media
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The double task of institutional strengthening and executing project activities simultaneously with local partners
Critical elements of integrated conservation and development (ICD) projects include protecting the environmental integrity of a geographic area over the long term, improving the economic security […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): J. Stallings; M. Garcia
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Environmental assessments as community-based adaptive management tools
This paper discusses the historic role of environmental assessments and impact statements in development and conservation projects and their limited current use. The Sustainable Uses for […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): J. Tolisano
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Participatory conservation: Lessons from the PALOMAP study in the Cayambe-Coca Ecological Reserve, Ecuador
The Introduction of the participatory paradigm took place on the basis of previous changes. In Ecuador, as in other Latin American countries, the state was forced […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): W. Ulfelder; S. Poats
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The use of Geographic Information Systems in planning and prioritizing actions in a biogeographical unit
Fundacion para el Desarrollo de la Cordillera Volcanica Central (FUNDECOR) is a non-governmental organization based in Costa Rica. Its geographical sphere of action is the Central […]
- Date of Publication: 2001
- Author(s): G. Vargas
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
