Socio-Environmental Regimes and Local Visions: Transdisciplinary Experiences in Latin America
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Reviewers -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Local Socio-Environmental Systems as a Transdisciplinary Conceptual Framework -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 General Attributes of LSES -- 1.1.2 Components of LSES -- 1.1.2.1 Landscape and Territory -- 1.1.2.2 The Political-Economic Group (or Regime's Agents) -- 1.1.2.3 The Group of Producers and Their Social Organizations -- 1.1.2.4 The Socio-Academic Group -- 1.1.2.5 Shifting from Disciplinary to Transdisciplinary Approaches -- 1.2 About this Book -- References -- Part II: Where Different Sources of Knowledge Intersect -- Chapter 2: Traditional Knowledge in the Colombian Amazon: Tensions Between Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Environmental Governance -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Traditional Knowledge from the Perspective of Governance and Environmental Policy -- 2.3 Theoretical Approaches to Traditional Knowledge Derived from Political Ecology -- 2.4 Study Group -- 2.5 Results and Discussion -- 2.5.1 Visions of Traditional Knowledge -- 2.5.2 Interfacing Traditional Knowledge: Negotiations and Strategies -- 2.5.3 Mobilizing Traditional Knowledge for Environmental Governance and Indigenous Autonomy -- 2.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Education in Macehual Mayan Institutions -- 3.1 A Short Review of the Concept of Institution -- 3.2 Educational Institutions in the Mexican Educational System -- 3.3 The Macehual Mayan Institutions -- 3.4 The Mayan Milpa as a Social Organization System -- 3.5 Mayan Milpa and Education -- 3.6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: Ngô ndêt pá khre: Environmental Governance for the Future of the Xingu River (Mato Grosso, Brazil) -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Xingu River's Springs Region -- 4.3 Common Resources and Environmental Governance in the Xingu Region.