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Peasant Adaptation to Environmental Change. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 180
One of the primary challenges facing researchers and
practitioners in their efforts to address issues of
poverty and environment is the need to deepen our
understanding of the logic that guides people’s
decisions over resource use, particularly among the
rural poor whose livelihoods often depend on fragile
and dynamic environments. This study seeks to
identify the set of factors that influences how
people respond to abrupt environmental disturbances
and resource scarcity through changes in livelihood
and resource management practices in two riverine
communities of the Peruvian Amazon. The results
reveal that socioeconomic characteristics such as
forest knowledge and access to agricultural land
explain striking differences among households in
livelihood responses to environmental change,
particularly concerning resource use behavior,
resilience to disturbance, and the propensity to
adopt more sustainable resource management
strategies. This book should be especially useful to
researchers, NGOs, policy makers, and community
leaders working towards - or anyone else concerned
about - poverty alleviation and sustainable resource
use in tropical humid environments.
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