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

1. 
   

   Change in Natural Resource Management: An Experiment with 'Participatory GIS'

   
   


2. 
   

   Peopled Parks: Forest Change in India's Protected Landscapes

   
   


3. 
   

   Public-Private Interactions in the Conservation of Private Forests in the United States

   
   


4. 
   

   The Monitoring of Land-Cover Change and Management across Gradient Landscapes in Africa

   
   

Part III: Institutional and Political Ecology Approaches

1. 
   

   Between Cooperation and Conflict: The Implementation of Agro-Extractive Settlements in the Lower Amazonian Floodplain

   
   


2. 
   

   Conservation of Natural Resources: Which Matters -Having a Regulation or the Size of the Penalty Imposed?

   
   


3. 
   

   Small-Scale Farmers and the Challenges of Environmental Conservation and Rural Development: Case Studies from the State of São Paulo and the Amazon Region

   
   


4. 
   

   Institutional Evolution, Forest Conservation, and Rapid Change in Rural Honduras

   
   


5. 
   

   Land-Use Institutions and Natural Resources in Fast-Growing Communities at the Urban-Rural Fringe

   
   

Part IV: Historical and Archeological Approaches

1. 
   

   Agroforestry in Tomé-Açu-An Alternative to Pasture in the Amazon

   
   


2. 
   

   Changing Driving Forces, Imposed Tenure Regimes, and Tree-Cover Change on Village Landscapes in the West Mengo Region of Uganda, 1890 to 2002

   
   


3. 
   

   Was Agriculture a Key Productive Activity in Precolonial Amazonia? The Stable Productive Basis for Social Equality in the Central Amazon

   
   

Part V. Future Directions

1. Human-Environment Research: Past Trends, Current Challenges and Future Directions

Index