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| Zimmerer, Karl S.; Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI), Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment (PSIEE); ksz2@psu.edu. |
| I examined agrobiodiversity in smallholder cultural landscapes with the goal of offering new insights into management and policy options for the resilience-based in situ conservation and social-ecological sustainability of local, food-producing crop types, i.e., landraces. I built a general, integrative approach to focus on both land use and livelihood functions of crop landraces in the context of nontraditional, migration-related livelihoods amid global change. The research involved a multimethod, case-study design focused on a cultural landscape of maize, i.e., corn, growing in the Andes of central Bolivia, which is a global hot spot for this crop’s agrobiodiversity. Central questions included the following: (1) What are major agroecological... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Cultural landscapes; Knowledge systems; Maize; Phenology-based adaptive capacity; Social networks of migration. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Hoverman, Suzanne; University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland; suzannehoverman@optusnet.com.au; Ross, Helen; University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland; Helen.Ross@uq.edu.au; Chan, Terence; Water Studies Centre, Monash University, Victoria; terence.chan@sci.monash.edu.au; Powell, Bronwyn; International WaterCentre Brisbane, Queensland; b.powell@watercentre.org. |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Catchment risk assessment; Collective social action; Deliberative democratic theory; Developing countries; Integrated Water Resources Management IWRM; Knowledge systems; Social learning; Solomon Islands; Pacific Islands. |
| Ano: 2011 |
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