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People in nature : wildlife conservation in South and Central America

'People in Nature' highlights South and Central American approaches to wildlife conservation and management strategy and discusses threats caused by ranching, habitat fragmentation, fishing and hunting
Print Book, English, ©2004
Columbia University Press, New York, ©2004
Aufsatzsammlung
xiii, 463 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780231127820, 9780231127837, 0231127820, 0231127839
53954265
Chapter 1. Wildlife Conservation and Management in South and Central America: Multiple Pressures and Innovative solutions / José M.V. Fragoso, Richard E. Bodmer and Kirsten M. Silvius
Part I. Local peoples and Community Management
Chapter 2. Conceptual basis for the selection of Wildlife management strategies by the Embera people in the Utria National Park, Chocó, Colombia / Astrid Ulloa, Claudia Campos, and Heidi Rubio-Torgler
Chapter 3. Bridging the gap between western scientific and traditional indigenous wildlife management : the Xavante of Rio Das Mortes Indigenous Reserve, Mato Grosso, Brazil / Kirsten M. Silvius
Chapter 4. Increasing local stakeholder participation in wildlife management projects with rural communities : lessons from Bolivia / Wendy R. Townsend
Chapter 5. Community-based wildlife management in the Gran Chaco Bolivia / Andrew J. Noss and Michael Painter
Chapter 6. Fisheries in the Amazon Várzea : historical trends, current status, and factors affecting sustainability / William G.R. Crampton, Leandro Castello and João Paulo Viana
Chapter 7. Fisheries Management in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve / William G.R. Crampton, João Paulo Viana, Leandro Castello and José María B. Damasceno
Chapter 8. Hunting effort as a tool for community-based wildlife management in Amazonia / Pablo E. Puertas and Richard E. Bodmer
Part II. Economic Considerations
Chapter 9. Economic incentives for sustainable community management of fishery resources in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil / João Paulo Viana, José Maria B. Damasceno, Leandro Castello. Chapter 10. Community ownership and live shearing of vicuñas in Peru : evaluating management strategies and their sustainability / Catherine T. Sahley, Jorge Torres Vargas and Jesús Sánchez Valdivia
Chapter 11. Captive breeding programs as an alternative for wildlife conservation in Brazil / Sergio Nogueira-Filho and Selene Siqueira da Cunha Nogueira
Chapter 12. Economic Analysis of Wildlife Use in the Peruvian Amazon / Richard Bodmer, and Eterzit Pezo Lozano and Tula G. Fang
Part III. Fragmentation and other non-harvest human impacts
Chapter 13. Mammalian densities and species extinctions in Atlantic forest fragments : the need for population management / Laury Cullen Jr., Richard E. Bodmer, Claudio Valladares-Pádua, and Jonathan D. Ballou
Chapter 14. Abundance, spatial distribution, and human pressure on Orinoco Crocodiles in the Cojedes River system, Venezuela / Andrés E. Seijas
Chapter 15. Impacts of Damming on Primate Community Sructure in the Amazon
A Case Study of the Samuel Dam, Rondônia, Brazil / Rosa M. Lemos de Sá
Chapter 16. Niche partitioning among Gray Brocket deer, pampas deer, and cattle in the Pantanal, Brazil / Laurenz Pinder
Chapter 17. Ecology and conservation of the Jaguar in Iguaçu National Park, Brazil / Peter G. Crawshaw Jr., Jan K. Mähler, Cibele Indrusiak, Sandra M.C. Cavalcanti
Chapter 18. A long-term study of white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) populationfluctuations in Northern Amazonia : Anthropogenic vs. "natural" causes / José M.V. Fragoso
Part IV. Hunting Impacts
biological basis and rationale for sustainability. Chapter 19. Evaluating the sustainability of hunting in the Neotropics / Richard E. Bodmer and John G. Robinson
Chapter 20. Hunting sustainability of ungulate populations in the Lacandon forest, Mexico / Eduardo J. Naranjo, Jorge E. Bolaños, Michelle M. Guerra, and Richard E. Bodmer
Chapter 21. Human use and conservation of economically important birds in seasonally-flooded forests of the northeastern Peruvian Amazon / by José A. González
Chapter 22. Patterns of use and hunting of turtles in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil / Augusto Fachin Teran, Richard C. Vogt, and John B. Thorbjarnar
Chapter 23. Fisheries, by Fishing Effort and Fish Consumption in the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve and its area of influence / Salvador Tello
Chapter 24. Implications of the spatial structure of game populations for the sustainability of hunting in the Neotropics / Andrés J. Novaro
Chapter 25. Hunting and wildlife management in French Guiana: Current aspects and future prospects / Cécile Richard-Hansen and Eric Hansen
Festschrift to José Márcio Ayres.