Overview
- Detailed and insightful empirical case study of an indigenous community
- Detailed description of socioecological research methods, challenges and constraints in the field
- Provision of generic sustainability indicators as well as comparative data sets on metabolic profile and metabolic rates
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About this book
Empirical in character, this book analyses the society-nature interaction of the Tsimane’, a rural indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. Following a common methodological framework, the material and energy flow (MEFA) approach, it gives a detailed account of the biophysical exchange relations the community entertains with its natural environment: the socio-economic use of energy, materials, land and time. Equally so, the book provides a deeper insight into the local base of sociometabolic transition processes and their inherent dynamics of change. The local community described in this publication stands for the many thousands of rural systems in developing countries that, in light of an ever more globalising world, are currently steering a similar - but maybe differently-paced - development course. This book presents insightful methodological and conceptual advances in the field of sustainability science and provides a vital reader for students and researchers of human ecology, ecological anthropology, and environmental sociology. It equally contributes to improving professional development work methods.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fishing, Foraging and Farming in the Bolivian Amazon
Book Subtitle: On a Local Society in Transition
Authors: Lisa Ringhofer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3487-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3486-1Published: 16 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9087-2Published: 13 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3487-8Published: 01 December 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 249
Topics: Community & Population Ecology, Environmental Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, general, Sustainable Development, Demography