Human-Environment Interactions

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.