Analiza los origenes, desarrollo y presentes caracteristicas de FLACSO y las posibilidades de establecer un colegio de graduados en antropologia social aplicada en el Caribe.
Beyond the Biophysical argues for an interdisciplinary perspective on agriculture, natural resource management (NRM), and international development practice that extends beyond a purely biophysical orientation. Biophysical interventions succeed or fail not simply on their own merits but within a ...
German, L.
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Ramisch, Joshua J.
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Verma, R.
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[Beyond the biophysical: knowledge, culture, and power in agriculture and natural resource management]
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Beyond the biophysical: knowledge, culture, and power in agriculture and natural resource management
Colfer, C.J.P.
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[From understanding to action: building on anthropological approaches to influence policymaking]
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From understanding to action: building on anthropological approaches to influence policymaking
The methods used to value tropical forests have the potential to influence how policy makers and others perceive forest landsforestlands. A small number of valuation studies achieve real impact. These are generally succinct accounts supporting a specific perception. However, such reports risk bei...
Sheil, Douglas
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Wunder, Sven
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[The value of tropical forest to local communities: complications, caveats, and cautions]
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The value of tropical forest to local communities: complications, caveats, and cautions
Cuatomary tenure, mingled with state law and occasional private titling, continue predominantly to govern African rural and forest lands. This is in spite of evolutionist theories that predicted its demise and colonial and post-colonial policies that tried actively to accelerate it. The chapter d...
Diaw, C.
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[Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies]
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Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies
The success of long-term sustainable management of natural resources depends on local people’s support. Assessing local people’s attitudes, taking into account their needs, and respecting their opinions should become a management priority. In India, in the last 20 years, community needs and aspir...
Macura, B.
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Zorondo-Rodríguez, F.
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Grau-Satorras, M.
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Demps, K.
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Laval, M.
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García, C.A.
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Reyes García, Victoria
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[Local community attitudes toward forests outside protected areas in India: impact of legal awareness, trust, and participation]
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Local community attitudes toward forests outside protected areas in India: impact of legal awareness, trust, and participation
This article examines the institutional matrix associated with logging and forest pioneering in a district on Sumatra. It draws together theoretical approaches to develop a framework for analysing the operation of competing forms of institutional power and control. The article argues that the gov...
McCarthy, J.F.
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[Power and interest on Sumatra’s rainforest frontier: clientelist coalitions, illegal logging and conservation in the Alas valley]
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Power and interest on Sumatra’s rainforest frontier: clientelist coalitions, illegal logging and conservation in the Alas valley
Equitable interdisciplinary teamwork is easier said than done. For, it is not simply a matter of adding a “pinch” of social science into a larger interdisciplinary team, and stirring. Putting interdisciplinarity into action requires a more distilled and nuanced approach involving negotiation, bar...
Verma, R.
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Russell, D.
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German, L.
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[Anthro-apology? negotiating space for interdisciplinary collaboration and in-depth anthropology in the CGIAR]
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Anthro-apology? negotiating space for interdisciplinary collaboration and in-depth anthropology in the CGIAR
