Peasant Adaptation to Environmental Change - Manzi, Maya
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One of the primary challenges facing researchers andpractitioners in their efforts to address issues ofpoverty and environment is the need to deepen ourunderstanding of the logic that guides people'sdecisions over resource use, particularly among therural poor whose livelihoods often depend on fragileand dynamic environments. This study seeks toidentify the set of factors that influences howpeople respond to abrupt environmental disturbancesand resource scarcity through changes in livelihoodand resource management practices in two riverinecommunities of the Peruvian Amazon. The resultsreveal…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
One of the primary challenges facing researchers andpractitioners in their efforts to address issues ofpoverty and environment is the need to deepen ourunderstanding of the logic that guides people'sdecisions over resource use, particularly among therural poor whose livelihoods often depend on fragileand dynamic environments. This study seeks toidentify the set of factors that influences howpeople respond to abrupt environmental disturbancesand resource scarcity through changes in livelihoodand resource management practices in two riverinecommunities of the Peruvian Amazon. The resultsreveal that socioeconomic characteristics such asforest knowledge and access to agricultural landexplain striking differences among households inlivelihood responses to environmental change,particularly concerning resource use behavior,resilience to disturbance, and the propensity toadopt more sustainable resource managementstrategies. This book should be especially useful toresearchers, NGOs, policy makers, and communityleaders working towards - or anyone else concernedabout - poverty alleviation and sustainable resourceuse in tropical humid environments.
Autorenporträt
Manzi Maya§Maya Manzi, Masters of Arts in Geography at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA. Research Interests: Human-Environment Interactions, Cultural/Political Ecology.