Foreword by Elinor Ostrom
Introduction
Part I: Health and Adaptation Approaches
1. A Half-Century Portrait: Health Transition in the Xavante Indians from Central Brazil
2. Balancing People, Politics, and Resources in Rural Tibet
3. Human-Wildlife Contact and Emerging Infectious Diseases
Part II: Land Change and Landscape Management Approaches
4. Change in Natural Resource Management: An Experiment with ‘Participatory GIS’
5. Peopled Parks: Forest Change in India’s Protected Landscapes
6. Public-Private Interactions in the Conservation of Private Forests in the United States
7. The Monitoring of Land-Cover Change and Management across Gradient Landscapes in Africa
Part III: Institutional and Political Ecology Approaches
8. Between Cooperation and Conflict: The Implementation of Agro-Extractive Settlements in the Lower Amazonian Floodplain
9. Conservation of Natural Resources: Which Matters –Having a Regulation or the Size of the Penalty Imposed?- 10. Small-Scale Farmers and the Challenges of Environmental Conservation and Rural Development: Case Studies from the State of São Paulo and the Amazon Region
11. Institutional Evolution, Forest Conservation, and Rapid Change in Rural Honduras
12. Land-Use Institutions and Natural Resources in Fast-Growing Communities at the Urban-Rural Fringe
Part IV: Historical and Archeological Approaches
13. Agroforestry in Tomé-Açu—An Alternative to Pasture in the Amazon
14. Changing Driving Forces, Imposed Tenure Regimes, and Tree-Cover Change on Village Landscapes in the West Mengo Region of Uganda, 1890 to 2002
15. Was Agriculture a Key Productive Activity in Precolonial Amazonia? The Stable Productive Basis for Social Equality in the Central Amazon
Part V. Future Directions
16. Human-Environment Research: Past Trends, Current Challenges and Future Directions
Index.