Human-Environment Interactions Current and Future Directions Human-Environment Interactions Series, Vol. 1

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.

Foreword by Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom Integrates seamlessly research across the social and natural sciences Provides a nuanced, interdisciplinary, and state-of-the-art set of approaches to addressing issues as diverse as tropical deforestation, health and disease, the creation of rules for resource management, and how best to meet our current environmental dilemmas