Changing Fortunes - Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes

Informationen zum Autor Karl S. Zimmerer is Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin! Madison. Klappentext "A significant contribution to our understanding of the local management of plant and animal genetic resources in the context of existing agricultural systems. . . . This book will be widely discussed."-Enrique Mayer! Yale University Zusammenfassung This investigation into two of the world's most pressing needs (biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World) challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops in the Andes may not be as hopelessly endangered as was thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Fields of Plenty and Want 2. The Great Historical Arch of Andean Biodiversity 3. Transitions in Farm Nature and Society! 1969-1990 4. Innovation and the Spaces of Biodiversity 5. Loss and Conservation of the Diverse Crops 6. Diversity's Sum: Geography! Ecology-Economy! and Culture 7. The Vicissitudes of Biodiversity's Fortune

Product details

• Authors: Karl S. Zimmerer, Zimmerer Karl S.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.1997
• EAN: 9780520203037
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20303-7
• No. of pages: 309
• Series: California Studies in Critical Human Geography; California Studies in Critical; California Studies in Critical Human Geography
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Peru, NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, Development Studies