Human-Environment Interactions

Chapter 1 Introduction to Human-Environment Interactions Research

Chapter 2 A Half-Century Portrait: Health Transition in the Xavante Indians from Central Brazil

Chapter 3 Balancing People, Policies, and Resources in Rural Tibet

Chapter 4 Human-Wildlife Contact and Emerging Infectious Diseases

Chapter 5 Change in Natural Resource Management: An Experiment with “Participatory GIS”

Chapter 6 Peopled Parks: Forest Change in India’s Protected Landscapes

Chapter 7 Public-Private Interactions in the Conservation of Private Forests in the United States

Chapter 8 The Monitoring of Land-Cover Change and Management across Gradient Landscapes in Africa

Chapter 9 Between Cooperation and Conflict: The Implementation of Agro-Extractive Settlements in the Lower Amazon Floodplain

Chapter 10 Conservation of Natural Resources: Which Matters – Having a Regulation or the Size of the Penalty Imposed?

Chapter 11 Small-Scale Farmers and the Challenges of Environmental Conservation and Rural Development: Case Studies from the State of São Paulo and the Amazon Region

Chapter 12 Institutional Evolution, Forest Conservation, and Rapid Change in Rural Honduras

Chapter 13 Land-Use Institutions and Natural Resources in Fast-Growing Communities at the Urban-Rural Fringe

Chapter 14 Agroforestry in Tomé-Açu: An Alternative to Pasture in the Amazon

Chapter 15 Changing Driving Forces, Imposed Tenure Regimes, and Tree-Cover Change on Village Landscapes in the West Mengo Region of Uganda, 1890–2002

Chapter 16 Was Agriculture a Key Productive Activity in Pre-Colonial Amazonia? The Stable Productive Basis for Social Equality in the Central Amazon

Chapter 17 Human-Environment Research: Past Trends, Current Challenges, and Future Directions