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1. From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence: Paradigms, Representations, and Practices / Susanna B. Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison, and Christine Padoch; Part I. Conceptual Frameworks; Rethinking Social Lives and Forest Transitions: History, Ideologies, Institutions, and the Matrix / Susanna B. Hecht; 2. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach; 3. Stories of Nature's Hybridity in Europe: Implications for Forest Conservation in the Global South / Roderick P. Neumann; 4. Adam Smith in the Forest / Frederik Albritton Jonsson; 5. Jungles, Forests, and the Theatre of Wars: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and the Political Forest in Southeast Asia / Nancy Lee Peluso and Peter Vandergeest; 6. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico / Joseph Masco; 7. Pan-Tropical Perspectives on Forest Resurgence / Alan Grainger; 8. The Social Lives of Forest Transitions and Successions: Theories of Forest Resurgence / Susanna B. Hecht.

Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems takes a look at how farmers manage, maintain, and benefit from biodiversity in agricultural production systems. The volume includes the most recent research and developments in the maintenance of local diversity at the genetic, species, and ecosystem levels. Chapters cover the assessment and farmer management practices for crop, livestock, aquatic, and associated diversity (such as pollinators and soil microorganisms) in agricultural ecosystems; examine the potential role of diversity in minimizing pest and disease pressures; and present studies that exemplify the potential nutritional, ecosystem service, and financial values of this diversity under changing economic and environmental conditions. The volume contains perspectives that combine the thinking of social and biological scientists. Inappropriate or excessive use of inputs can cause damage to biodiversity within agricultural ecosystems and compromise future productivity. This book features numerous case studies that show how farmers have used alternative approaches to manage biodiversity to enhance the stability, resilience, and productivity of their farms, pointing the way toward improved biodiversity on a global scale. As custodians of the world's agricultural biodiversity, farmers are fully invested in ways to create, sustain, and assist in the evolution and adaptation of a variety of plant and animal species. Thus this text is mandatory reading for conservationists, environmentalists, botanists, zoologists, geneticists, and anyone interested in the health of our ecosystem.

This book takes a multi-disciplinary and critical look at what has changed over the last ten years in one of the world's most important and dynamic ecosystems, the Amazon floodplain or várzea. It also looks forward, assessing the trends that will determine the fate of environments and people of the várzea over the next ten years and providing crucial information that is needed to formulate strategies for confronting these looming realities.

Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This original and thought-provoking collection of case studies examines some of the ways in which migration, and the concomitant processes of ecological and social change, have shaped and continue to shape human-environment relations in Amazonia. Drawing on a wide range of historical time frames (from pre-conquest times to the present) and ethnographic contexts, different chapters examine the complex and important links between migration and the classification, management, and domestication of plants and landscapes, as well as the incorporation and transformation of environmental knowledge, practices, ideologies and identities