Universitat Internacional de la Pau. Recull de ponències, 2005
Información del artículo Agricultura, seguridad alimentaria y desarrollo rural en Africa. Problem... more Información del artículo Agricultura, seguridad alimentaria y desarrollo rural en Africa. Problemas, falacias y desafíos.
This is the inaugural paper that introduced a new indicator of sustainability, which the author c... more This is the inaugural paper that introduced a new indicator of sustainability, which the author coins HANPP: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production. This indicator estimates the extent of human use of ecological and land resources, contributing to the nascent ecological-footprint movement in the 1990s. The paper describes the concept of HANPP and provides a set of rudimentary algorithms and metrics for measuring it, mainly through data on land cover and land use. It also provides a preliminary, comparative estimation of HANPP in two socially and ecologically dissimilar countries – Ecuador and the Netherlands – and offers a brief discussion on the potential role of HANPP in assessing sustainability issues, from biodiversity conservation to land use management. In effect, after this paper, HANPP started to be used and further developed in the field of ecological economics, becoming a practical tool to assess and guide land-use policy and management. This paper illustrates the h...
Amazonia is generally regarded as a wild region that contains abundant natural resources, such as... more Amazonia is generally regarded as a wild region that contains abundant natural resources, such as oil and biodiversity. The hegemonic development and environmental discourses enforce economic, productive and, more recently, conservationist projects that expand aside of the indigenous peoples. Amidst strong development-ecology tensions, the interface between biodiversity and indigenous lifestyles in Amazonia remains largely neglected. Field research on the indigenous peoples of Pastaza, in Western Amazonia, undermines the global perception of wild Amazonia and supports the indigenous context of Amazonian ecosystems and biodiversity. Indigenous communities conserve, use, cultivate, manage and exchange biodiversity as fundamental component of their rural lifestyle. The indigenous agroecology comprises the whole set of knowledge systems, agroecological practices and socio-cultural dynamics that shape indigenous agriculture in the context of biodiversity. The indigenous agroecology provi...
Universitat Internacional de la Pau. Recull de …, 2005
Información del artículo Agricultura, seguridad alimentaria y desarrollo rural en Africa. Problem... more Información del artículo Agricultura, seguridad alimentaria y desarrollo rural en Africa. Problemas, falacias y desafíos.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United …, 2004
hivpolicy.org. An online database of HIV/AIDS policies for the Asia Pacific region. Skip to conte... more hivpolicy.org. An online database of HIV/AIDS policies for the Asia Pacific region. Skip to content. Main site navigation. ...
Universitat Internacional de la Pau. Recull de ponències, 2005
Información del artículo Agricultura, seguridad alimentaria y desarrollo rural en Africa. Problem... more Información del artículo Agricultura, seguridad alimentaria y desarrollo rural en Africa. Problemas, falacias y desafíos.
This is the inaugural paper that introduced a new indicator of sustainability, which the author c... more This is the inaugural paper that introduced a new indicator of sustainability, which the author coins HANPP: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production. This indicator estimates the extent of human use of ecological and land resources, contributing to the nascent ecological-footprint movement in the 1990s. The paper describes the concept of HANPP and provides a set of rudimentary algorithms and metrics for measuring it, mainly through data on land cover and land use. It also provides a preliminary, comparative estimation of HANPP in two socially and ecologically dissimilar countries – Ecuador and the Netherlands – and offers a brief discussion on the potential role of HANPP in assessing sustainability issues, from biodiversity conservation to land use management. In effect, after this paper, HANPP started to be used and further developed in the field of ecological economics, becoming a practical tool to assess and guide land-use policy and management. This paper illustrates the h...
Amazonia is generally regarded as a wild region that contains abundant natural resources, such as... more Amazonia is generally regarded as a wild region that contains abundant natural resources, such as oil and biodiversity. The hegemonic development and environmental discourses enforce economic, productive and, more recently, conservationist projects that expand aside of the indigenous peoples. Amidst strong development-ecology tensions, the interface between biodiversity and indigenous lifestyles in Amazonia remains largely neglected. Field research on the indigenous peoples of Pastaza, in Western Amazonia, undermines the global perception of wild Amazonia and supports the indigenous context of Amazonian ecosystems and biodiversity. Indigenous communities conserve, use, cultivate, manage and exchange biodiversity as fundamental component of their rural lifestyle. The indigenous agroecology comprises the whole set of knowledge systems, agroecological practices and socio-cultural dynamics that shape indigenous agriculture in the context of biodiversity. The indigenous agroecology provi...
Universitat Internacional de la Pau. Recull de …, 2005
Información del artículo Agricultura, seguridad alimentaria y desarrollo rural en Africa. Problem... more Información del artículo Agricultura, seguridad alimentaria y desarrollo rural en Africa. Problemas, falacias y desafíos.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United …, 2004
hivpolicy.org. An online database of HIV/AIDS policies for the Asia Pacific region. Skip to conte... more hivpolicy.org. An online database of HIV/AIDS policies for the Asia Pacific region. Skip to content. Main site navigation. ...
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