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Sirén, Anders. "Changing interactions between humans and nature in Sarayaku, Ecuadorian Amazon /." Uppsala : Dept. of Rural Development and Agroecology, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, 2004. http://epsilon.slu.se/a447.pdf.

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Ayabaca, Marcelo Vicente. "Rainfall variability in the upper Napo River Basin, Ecuadorian Amazon." FIU Digital Commons, 2004. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1348.

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The purpose of this research was to investigate the influence of elevation and other terrain characteristics over the spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall. A comparative analysis was conducted between several methods of spatial interpolations using mean monthly precipitation values in order to select the best. Following those previous results it was possible to fit an Artificial Neural Network model for interpolation of monthly precipitation values for a period of 20 years, with input values such as longitude, latitude, elevation, four geomorphologic characteristics and anchored by seven weather stations, it reached a high correlation coefficient (r=0.85). This research demonstrated a strong influence of elevation and other geomorphologic variables over the spatial distribution of precipitation and the agreement that there are nonlinear relationships. This model will be used to fill gaps in time-series of monthly precipitation, and to generate maps of spatial distribution of monthly precipitation at a resolution of 1km2.

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Pearson, Zoe. "Environmental Security in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Waorani, Oil and Environment." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276785206.

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O'Driscoll, Emma. "Contested identities : urbanisation and indigenous identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/47959/.

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This thesis is a study of indigenous urbanisation and ethnic identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Taking as its focus Shuar urban residents of the rainforest city Sucúa, it argues that urban indigenous residents feel simultaneously more and less ‘indigenous’ than their more ‘rural’ counterparts. On the one hand, the experience of living in a multiethnic city, on the ‘boundary’ of the Shuar ethnic group (Barth 1969), increases urban Shuar residents’ awareness of their ethnic identity, as Shuar and as ‘indigenous’. Furthermore, they want to identify as indigenous, as they are aware of the value that is placed on this identity by, for example, international organisations, NGOs, environmental activists, eco-tourism agencies, and indigenous political leaders. On the other hand, indigenous identity in urban areas is formed via a ‘play of mirrors’ (Novaes 1997) as a result of which urban Shuar are exposed to a variety of contradictory perspectives on what it means to be ‘indigenous’. These tend towards romanticisation and exoticisation of indigenous peoples as ‘ecologically noble savages’ (Redford 1993), creating the image of a ‘hyperreal Indian’ (Ramos 1992) that urban Shuar cannot hope to emulate. This leads many urban Shuar residents to feel that they are ‘not indigenous enough’. Nevertheless, with increased international migration and rising levels of education and professional achievement, a new urban indigenous middle class is acquiring the economic, cultural and social capital (Bourdieu 1984) to throw off the ‘burden of heritage’ (Olwig 1999) and determine for themselves what it means to be ‘indigenous’. Finally, I argue in this thesis for an anthropology of Amazonia that addresses the significant changes which are taking place in Amazonian peoples’ lives. If we continue to depict Amazonian groups as isolated, small-scale societies existing in an eternal ‘ethnographic present’ (Rubenstein 2002) we risk ignoring or misrepresenting the very real challenges and transformations that are increasingly facing our informants.

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Cortobius, Fredriksson Moa. "ProBenefit : Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Life Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2771.

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Legislation on benefit sharing dates back to 1992 and the commandment of the UNConvention on Biological Diversity, hence implementation still has few cases to fall back on(CBD, 1992). The case study of the project ProBenefit presented by the thesis highlights howlack of deliberation can undermine a democratic process. The objective of the thesis is thatProBenefit’s attempt to implement the standards of the CBD on access and benefit sharingwill highlight not only problems met by this specific project, but difficulties that generallymeet democratic processes in contexts of high inequality. To define if the project ProBenefitsucceeded in carrying out a deliberative process the project will be analyzed by the criteria:access to information, representation, legitimacy and involvement.The population in the project area of ProBenefit had a long history of social marginalization,which made it hard for foreign projects to gain legitimacy. The lack of independentorganizations and the late establishment of the project, which resulted in time shortage, madeit impossible to prevent the distrust of the local population. The failure of the projectcoordinators to ensure active participation of all stakeholders resulted in a late and lowinvolvement of the local participants. The absence of independent organization also madedemocratic legitimacy of the process questionable. Even if ProBenefit had a vision ofdemocratic deliberation the project was unable to break down the prevailing unequal powerdistribution which resulted in an unsustainable process and failure. The conclusion of thethesis is that the attainment of deliberation foremost depends on how a project deals with theexisting distribution of power and how it succeeds in involving all stakeholders.

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Franzen, Margaret Anne. "Huaorani resource use in the Ecuadorian Amazon : hunting, food sharing, and market participation /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Mezzenzana, Francesca. "Living through forms : similarity, knowledge and gender among the Pastaza Runa (Ecuadorian Amazon)." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3181/.

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In this thesis I explore the knowledge practices of the Pastaza Runa, an indigenous group of the Ecuadorian Amazon. A central claim in my work is that processes of knowledge acquisition among the Runa involve an acknowledgement that human bodies, as well as non-human ones, share a network of ‘likeness’. This is not to be located specifically in the possession of a soul nor in the ‘shared’ substance of the body. For the Runa, humans share with non-humans specific ‘patterns’ of action, which I call ‘forms’. Things can affect humans (and vice versa) because they share a certain formal resemblance. Such resemblance is not found in discrete entities, but rather in the movements between entities. As such, forms cannot be reduced to the physicality of a singular body: they are subject-less and inherently dynamic. The concept of forms developed in this thesis seeks to think about the relationship between human and objects in ways which go beyond ideas of ensoulment or subjectification. Such focus is central to my analysis of the relationship between humans and objects, and, in particular, between women and their ceramic pots. I explore the connection between women and pots by following closely the sequences of elaboration of ceramic vessels. Pottery making is intimately linked to women’s capacity for engendering novelty. I suggest that, for the Runa, the differentiation between women and men is not ‘made’ but rather given a priori. The ‘givenness’ of this difference has major implications for what one - as a Runa woman or man - can know or do. Thus, I explore how women, by virtue of their capacity for giving birth, are thought to be ‘inherently’ inclined towards ‘exteriority’. By virtue of such ‘outward’ propensity, women need to engage in processes of making knowledge visible to the eyes of others. This ‘exteriorizing’ process has important consequences for the ways men and women are respectively thought to become ‘acculturated’. Ultimately this work also aims to examine how processes of ‘change’ - a key concept in Amazonian cosmologies - are inevitably gender inflected.

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Polo, Patricia E. Walsh Stephen J. "Nature-culture interactions understanding the prevalence of malaria in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2186.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Geography." Discipline: Geography; Department/School: Geography.

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Arboleda, Gabriel. "Houses in Heaven are made of steel : understanding change in Ecuadorian amazon Secoya structures." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/31195.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, June 2005. Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-135). This thesis explores the change in the building structures of a Northeastern Ecuadorian group, the Secoya of the Aguarico River. In the context of environmental activism and cultural survival there are many reasons to lament major alterations in the Secoya's lifestyle in recent years. One of the most visible transformations experienced by this group is the abandonment of several traditional architectural types, including the Jaihub'e or communitarian longhouse. The thesis focuses on understanding the forces that have influenced the Secoya decision to adopt the Zinc House type, a metallic-roofed individual housing unit. These include change in their economic systems, depletion of the natural resources necessary for traditional construction, Western cultural pressure, difficulty to adapt the traditional structures to a modern life, and finally a historical predisposition to change. In short, the Secoya changed firstly because everything around changed, leaving them with no other option, and secondly because, simply, human beings naturally tend to change. The change was meaningful for the Secoya because many building practices that were actively linked to social life were abandoned. It was meaningful for us outsiders because our expectations of an exotic culture were left unfulfilled when it changed. However, rather than the loss of another indigenous culture, what the case illuminates is the nature of our own expectations, those conforming to an urban, pop mythology regarding sustainability. We should follow the Secoya example and change our own urban mythology, because our mythology wrongly overvalues cultural idleness and nature as the means for guaranteeing sustainability; (cont.) it emphasizes that sustainability depends on resource saving rather than on social justice, and it believes that sustainable solutions are an universal panacea that invariably applies to every culture, geography and historical context. The thesis seeks to expand the frontier of architectural theory towards an unconventional scenario, that of the Upper Amazon, in a series of specific topics: First, it provides detailed knowledge on three typologies of ethnic interest, one of them aboriginal (locally originated), one indigenous (locally adapted) and one modern (neutral-global). Second, it offers historical knowledge about the evolution of the Upper Amazonian building tradition. Third, it discusses how myth and building structure interact in the Upper Amazonian traditional house. Fourth, it details the serious cultural implications of the abandonment of the traditional types. Five, it presents knowledge about the environmental and social factors contributing to the abandonment of those types. And six, it helps to develop awareness about our own urban myths on sustainability in the context of change. by Gabriel Arboleda. S.M.

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Van, Etten Erica. "Seedling recruitment of large-seeded tropical trees planted as seeds in the Ecuadorian Amazon." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0025046.

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Moeller, Nina Isabella. "The protection of traditional knowledge in the Ecuadorian Amazon : a critical ethnography of capital expansion." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578252.

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This thesis argues that Access and Benefit Sharing CABS) agreements, no matter how fair and equitable, ultimately help to destroy traditional knowledge rather than protect it. ABS agreements are promoted and implemented as one of the key mechanisms for the protection of traditional knowledge from illegitimate appropriation by pharmaceutical companies or other actors. However, because they dominantly treat traditional knowledge as intellectual property in need of protection from misappropriation, they have the effect of expanding capital into a previously non- capitalist domain. The thesis argues that it is in the domain of subsistence that traditional knowledge is developed and reproduced; but the expansion of capitalism destroys people's autoriomous subsistence and thus the very foundations of traditional knowledge. In order to make this argument, the thesis combines two main strategies. First, a critical understanding of Karl Polanyi's notion of the double movement of capital is integrated with the autonomist Marxist idea of capital as value practice, and the concomitant understanding that alternative value practices constitute an 'outside' of capitalism. This theoretical framework guides discussion of the way in which the protection of traditional knowledge constitutes a form of capital expansion. Second, a detailed ethnographic presentation of a bioprospecting project and its ABS negotiations in the Ecuadorian Amazon is considered in political and historical context. This reveals the way in which traditional knowledge protection introduces market valuations into an area of life which had theretofore been oriented by different values. In conclusion, the thesis points to the importance of engaging in value practices which create and re-create the 'outside' of capitalism as a counter-hegemonic form of traditional knowledge protection which actually safeguards the conditions in which traditional knowledge can flourish.

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Erlien, Christine M. Walsh Stephen J. "Household and community effects on land use/land cover dynamics in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2124.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. Title from electronic title page (viewed Feb. 17, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Geography." Discipline: Geography; Department/School: Geography.

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Celi-Sangurima, Jorge Emilio. "The vulnerability of aquatic systems of the Upper Napo River Basin (Ecuadorian Amazon) to human activities." FIU Digital Commons, 2005. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2095.

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Aquatic ecosystems exhibit different vulnerabilities to anthropogenic disturbances. I examined this problem in the Upper Napo River Basin (UNRB), Ecuador. I ranked from 1 to 5 aquatic ecosystem uniqueness, health and threats. I stratified the basin into five Ecological Drainage Units (EDU), 48 Aquatic Ecological Systems (AES), and 203 macrohabitats. I found main threats (habitat conversion/degradation, land development, mining, oil industries, and water diversion) cover 54% of the UNRB, but have different scores and extents in each EDU. I assessed the health of 111 AESs, under three land use treatments, by analyzing the streamside zone, physical forms, water quality, aquatic life, and hydrology. Overall, health of AESs varied from 5 to 2.58, with 5 being the highest level of health. Threats and health of AESs were inversely related (F=34.119, P

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Allison, Kerensa Louise. "Manioc mothers subsistence stability and the influence of tourism among the Napo Kichwas in the Ecuadorian Amazon /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2010/k_allison_050410.pdf.

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Evans, Sally Irene. "Knowledge as commodity and energetic gift : indigenous medical practices and intellectual property rights in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494169.

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This thesis examines the relationship between the commodification of indigenous knowledge on one hand and the inalienability of forms of indigenous knowledge that I term energetic gifts on the other hand in order to further scholarly discussion about intellectual property rights and indigenous people. I explore this relationship through the medium of Ecuadorian Amazonian indigenous medical knowledges and intellectual property rights. The arena of intellectual property rights gives rise to various positions, the extremes of which are: indigenous people need to participate in the commodification of knowledge in order to benefit from and protect their medicinal knowledge, or, conversely, commodification is an imposition of alien values and a continuance of colonialism. I argue that current intellectual property rights are unsuitable for indigenous medical knowledge.

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Theyson, Katherine Christina Bilsborrow Richard E. "The determinants and effects of the off-farm employment decision a study of the northern Ecuadorian Amazon /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2744.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. Title from electronic title page (viewed Mar. 10, 2010). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Economics." Discipline: Economics; Department/School: Economics.

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Anda, Basabe Susana, de la Torre Sara Gómez, and Garland Eduardo Bedoya. "Family productive strategies, perceptions and deforestation in a context of forest transition: the case of Tena in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/79311.

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Este artículo explica la forma como las estrategias productivas familiares de los colonos agricultores y las percepciones que los agricultores tienen sobre el bosque influyen en el ritmo de deforestación. Este tipo de enfoque, basado en el análisis de procesos endógenos, procura contextualizar y entender cómo los agricultores funcionan dentro de un contexto de «transición forestal», resultado de significativos cambios económicos, expansión del mercado y desarrollo de la infraestructura vial. Nuestro argumento central es que las indicadas estrategias de los agricultores en el cantón de Tena, en relación con el ritmo de deforestación en sus fincas, se construyen como resultado de la combinación de un conjunto de procesos económicos de sobrevivencia a corto y mediano plazo y desde los cuales se elaboran percepciones mentales o culturales sobre el bosque. Tales procesos endógenos no son únicamente respuestas a contextos externos sino que también se derivan de ciclos demográficos y dinámicas de acumulación que ocurren dentro de las familias de los productores. This article explains how the family productive strategies of farmer settlers and their perceptions of the forest influence the rate of deforestation. This particular approach, based on the analysis of endogenous processes, seeks to contextualize and understand how farmers operate within a context of «forest transition», as a result of significant economic changes, market expansion and road infrastructuredevelopment. Our central argument is that the farmers’ strategies in Tena, in relation to the rate of deforestation on their farms, are a result of the combination of a set of economic processes of survival in the short and medium term and of their mental or cultural perceptions of the forest. Such endogenous processes arenot only responses to external contexts but are also derived from demographic cycles and accumulation dynamics that occur within the families of producers.

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Stafford, Ciara. "Impacts of indigenous communities on the biodiversity of neotropical rainforests." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/impacts-of-indigenous-communities-on-the-biodiversity-of-neotropical-rainforests(613e8c12-bf09-428b-98fc-eacb96845bcf).html.

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This thesis explores how indigenous communities in the neotropics affect the biodiversity of the forests in which they live; and assesses how the culture, preferences and perceptions of communities can influence the outcome of this relationship. This is first investigated via a case study that compares primate populations between a protected area in the Ecuadorian Amazon and a territory in its adjacent buffer zone that is owned by an indigenous Kichwa community. I then use an ethnoprimatological approach to investigate the attitudes of this community to primates, namely looking at (a) whether primates are seen as a distinct group, (b) the relative importance of primates as sources of bushmeat and pets and (c) the perceived value of primates in terms of their value as a resource or their ecological role. I show that diurnal primates are seen as a cohesive group, but that tree-dwelling non-primates including sloths, kinkajous and tamanduas are also frequently classified as 'monkeys'. The community's perceptions of the value of primates are more closely associated with their potential as bushmeat and pets, whereas few respondents view their importance in terms of their role in the forest ecosystem. I compare our findings to those in studies of other indigenous groups and discuss how they could contribute to more effective conservation planning. Next, I assess how hunting preferences for mammals and birds vary across communities over the whole of central America, Amazonia and the Guianan shield. I show that primates, cetartiodactyls and rodents are the mammalian cornerstones of prey provision for hunters in neotropical communities, whereas Galliformes, Tinamiformes, Psittaciformes, Gruiformes, Piciformes are the most commonly hunted bird orders. The location of a community alone is a significant but weak predictor of the structure of its hunting profile in terms of order preferences. In addition, I found no relationship between a community's age and size and the average biomass of birds or mammals hunted, or the number of mammal species that are targeted. I discuss whether the age and size of communities are robust indicators of past and current hunting pressure, as well as the suitability of cross-sectional data for monitoring large-scale hunting patterns.

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Mena, Carlos F. Walsh Stephen J. "Characterizing and modeling agricultural and forest trajectories in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon spatial heterogeneity, socioeconomic drivers, and spatial simulations /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1444.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Geography." Discipline: Geography; Department/School: Geography.

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Gómez, de la Torre Sara, Susana Anda, and Garland Eduardo Bedoya. "Historical processes and structural factors of deforestation in the Amazon: the case of Tena, Ecuador (2014)." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Centro de Investigación en Geografía Aplicada, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119761.

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The aim of this paper is to analyze and describe the historical, institutional and structural factors of deforestation taking into account the dynamics of intensification or «extensification» of land use in the Amazon region of Tena in Ecuador. A first conclusion was finding the reproduction of an extensive pattern of agriculture in Tena as an important direct agent of deforestation. We believe that this agricultural system originates in historical processes from the sixties, when the state intervenes promoting certain policies of extensive land use, through road construction and specific mechanisms of land titling. The current social and institutional dynamics have failed to reverse such situation, since deforestation is still playing, although there is a tendency to close the agricultural frontier. The indicated form of farming and the corresponding rates of deforestation are played today as a result of structural factors, such as farm size, proximity to roads, the type of technology used and unfavorable market linkages. El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar y describir los factores históricos, institucionales y estructurales de la deforestación teniendo en cuenta la dinámica de intensificación o «extensificación» de uso del suelo en la región amazónica de Tena, en Ecuador. Una primera conclusión fue constatar la reproducción de una agricultura extensiva en Tena como un importante agente directo de la deforestación. Creemos que dicho sistema agrícola se origina en procesos históricos, desde la década de 1960, cuando el Estado ecuatoriano interviene fomentando ciertas políticas de ocupación extensiva del suelo, a través de la construcción de caminos de penetración y algunas modalidades específicas de titulación de tierras. Las dinámicas sociales e institucionales actuales no han logrado revertir tal situación, pues la deforestación se sigue reproduciendo, a pesar de que existe la tendencia a que se cierre la frontera agrícola. La indicada forma de agricultura y las correspondientes tasas de deforestación se reproducen en la actualidad como resultado de factores estructurales, tales como el tamaño del predio, cercanía a las carreteras, el tipo de tecnología utilizada y una desfavorable articulación con el mercado.

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Bryja, Malgorzata Anna. "An evaluation of the potential for implementing adaptive co-management in the Waodani social-ecological system in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018192.

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Adaptive co-management (ACM), one of the most prominent management approaches to emerge in the recent years, combines iterative learning, flexibility, and adaptation promoted by adaptive management with the principles of nurturing diversity and fostering collaboration among different partners that underpin co-management philosophy. ACM has been proposed as an approach to address the deficiencies of centralized management in ensuring sustainability of social-ecological systems (SESs) in face of future uncertainties. This thesis aims to evaluate the readiness of resource users (the Waodani) as well as external actors (the Ecuadorian State and NGOs) for future implementation of ACM and thus enhancing the long-term social-ecological sustainability of the Waodani SES located in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Qualitative data obtained by means of focus groups with the Waodani and individual interviews with external actors and Waodani leaders revealed different levels of readiness for ACM. Firstly, in the case of the Waodani, the insufficient fulfillment of some conditions required for successful ACM as well as intercommunity differences in regards to these conditions can complicate the implementation of ACM, unless sufficient external assistance is offered to the SES. The analysis of NGOs demonstrated, on the other hand, a relative readiness for ACM, providing that such aspects as sufficient funding, long-term commitment to collaboration, and inter-institutional linkages are strengthened. The study also found that the Ecuadorian government’s potential to contribute to ACM is hindered by the lack of readiness to work with the indigenous society as well as by funding and communication challenges. Furthermore, the resource based economy supported by the State limits the scope of innovation and adaptation. Still, as in the case of other actors, overcoming the challenges and transitioning towards adaptive governance and thus ACM could be possible in the long-term, if recent legal and political changes are truly implemented.

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Tym, Christian. "Shuar People’s Healing Practices in the Ecuadorian Amazon as a Guide to State Interculturality: An Epistemic Case for Indigenous Institutions." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17765.

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What do we understand by the principle of state interculturality? What would be the full implications of making Latin American states culturally representative, rather than agents of modernisation on the European model? Could the state reflect the distinctive local cultures within the various particular regions of its sovereign territory? This project takes the example of state healthcare in Ecuador, an ‘intercultural state’ according to its 2008 constitution, as a point of entry to answering these questions. By presenting an epistemological critique of biomedicine as culturally specific and historically contingent, it argues for intercultural health as a break with taking western knowledge systems as the universal arbiters for social policy. Instead, it proposes that the health-seeking preferences of indigenous minority groups–working with the example of the Shuar nationality in the south-eastern Amazonian province of Zamora-Chinchipe–become the basis for culturally representative state healthcare within their territory. I argue that this is a question of indigenous justice, in light of the evident dramatic disconnects in meaning and disappointed expectations of many Shuar people in their engagement with clinical healthcare. However for non-indigenous society, too, intercultural health would lead to the further development of health practices founded on distinct epistemological and ontological assumptions from those of western biomedicine, thereby bringing a new diversity of approaches with which intercultural societies could address universal social problems. Yet the effort to put forward a medical ethnographic representation of Shuar culture understood as a set of present-day practices and preferences, rather than a body of essentialised tradition, raises the question of how meaningful it is today to speak of cultural groups, when these are inevitably cross-cut by transnational economic, religious and political-discursive forces to different extents in different locations. The thesis thus concludes with a suggestion for what we mean when we say we value cultural diversity.

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Santos, Fabián [Verfasser]. "A Landsat-based analysis of tropical forest dynamics in the Central Ecuadorian Amazon : patterns and causes of deforestation and reforestation / Fabián Santos." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1177881691/34.

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Bjureby, Erika. "The political ecology of indigenous movements : a case study of the Shuar people's struggles against the oil industry in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2006. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-political-ecology-of-indigenous-movements--a-case-study-of-the-shuar-peoples-struggles-against-the-oil-industry-in-the-ecuadorian-amazon(591ee49c-fbe2-4632-b3f0-1266e4e215fd).html.

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Buck, Steven. "The Role of Trust in Knowledge Acquisition, Technology Adoption and Access to Bank Loans: Results from Field Experiments in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32182.

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Ecuadorian farmers do not play the investment game (Berg 1995) the same with community farmers as they do with agricultural technicians. Women exhibit a preference for trust in agricultural technicians (vertical trust). Using experimental and survey data from 191 farmers we examine factors associated with 1) farmer trust in community farmers, 2) farmer trust in agricultural technicians, and 3) differences between levels of trust in agricultural technicians and community farmers. Then we explore how our measures of trust correlate with pesticide knowledge and purchase of pesticide safety equipment; in addition, we consider how our measures of trust correlate with accessing bank loans. Farmers who place more trust in community farmers score lower on our pesticide knowledge exam and they are less likely to adopt our pesticide safety equipment technology. We find that farmers who exhibit a preference for trusting agricultural technicians score higher on our pesticide knowledge exam; they are also more likely to report having accessed a bank loan. Master of Science

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Martínez, Sastre Javier. "El paraíso en venta. Desarrollo, etnicidad y ambientalismo en la frontera sur del Yasuní (Amazonía ecuatoriana)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/134732.

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Aquesta investigació analitza la interacció entre el desenvolupament, la identitat ètnica i l'ambientalisme i com aquesta ha influït en el procés d'incorporació de la conca baixa del riu Curaray (Amazònia equatoriana) a l'Estat equatorià. Es tracta d'una zona molt dinàmica que va quedar deshabitada a partir de mitjans del segle XX i va ser després objecte de projectes de recolonització per la seva importància geoestratègica i econòmica. Els principals van ser, primer, l'estatal vinculat a les polítiques desarrollistes entre les dècades dels setanta i vuitanta, el fracàs de les quals va permetre, després, la intervenció de les elits indígenes que, amb un discurs ètnic i ambientalista, van obtenir recursos econòmics derivats de la cooperació internacional. D'aquesta manera, va ser possible consolidar una xarxa de cinc petites comunitats, que van aconseguir reconeixement jurídic en 2007 i legalització territorial en 2010. A partir de l'etnografia i de la etnohistòria, la tesi se centra en l'anàlisi dels canvis econòmics, socials i polítics en aquesta regió a través de la influència dels discursos ètnics, ambientalistes i desarrollistes. Esta investigación analiza la interacción entre el desarrollo, la identidad étnica y el ambientalismo y cómo ésta ha influido en el proceso de incorporación de la cuenca baja del río Curaray (Amazonía ecuatoriana) al Estado ecuatoriano. Se trata de una zona muy dinámica que quedó deshabitada a partir de mediados del siglo XX y fue luego objeto de proyectos de recolonización por su importancia geoestratégica y económica. Los principales fueron, primero, el estatal vinculado a las políticas desarrollistas entre las décadas de los setenta y ochenta, cuyo fracaso permitió, luego, la intervención de las élites indígenas que, con un discurso étnico y ambientalista, obtuvieron recursos económicos derivados de la cooperación internacional. De esta manera, fue posible consolidar una red de cinco pequeñas comunidades, que consiguieron reconocimiento jurídico en 2007 y legalización territorial en 2010. A partir de la etnografía y de la etnohistoria, la tesis se centra en el análisis de los cambios económicos, sociales y políticos en esta región a través de la influencia de los discursos étnicos, ambientalistas y desarrollistas. This research analyzes the interaction between development, ethnicity and environmentalism and how it has influenced the process of incorporation of the Low Curaray Basin (Ecuadorian Amazon) into the Ecuadorian State. This was a very dynamic area that remained uninhabited since the mid-XXth century and was then the subject of projects of recolonization due to its geostrategic and economic importance. The most relevant projects were, first, the one of the State linked to development policies between the 70’s and 80’s, whose failure allowed, later, the involvement of indigenous elites that obtained big economic resources from international cooperation, using an ethnic and environmental discourse. So, it was possible to build a network of five small communities and they got legal recognition in 2007 and territorial legalization in 2010. From ethnography and ethnohistory, the thesis focuses on the analysis of economic, social and political changes in the region through the influence of ethnic, environmental and developmental discourses.

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Torres, Navarrete Segundo Bolier Verfasser], Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Knoke, Thomas [Gutachter] Knoke, Sven [Gutachter] Günter, and Carola [Gutachter] [Paul. "Livelihood strategies and agricultural diversification in a leading hotspot area : A multilevel analysis in the Sumaco Biosphere Reserve, Ecuadorian Amazon / Segundo Bolier Torres Navarrete ; Gutachter: Thomas Knoke, Sven Günter, Carola Paul ; Betreuer: Thomas Knoke." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1186889470/34.

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Torres, Bolier [Verfasser], Thomas Akademischer Betreuer] Knoke, Thomas [Gutachter] Knoke, Sven [Gutachter] [Günter, and Carola [Gutachter] Paul. "Livelihood strategies and agricultural diversification in a leading hotspot area : A multilevel analysis in the Sumaco Biosphere Reserve, Ecuadorian Amazon / Segundo Bolier Torres Navarrete ; Gutachter: Thomas Knoke, Sven Günter, Carola Paul ; Betreuer: Thomas Knoke." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2019. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:91-diss-20190513-1462385-1-3.

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Rønsholdt, Nielsen Steffen. "Climate change mitigation and land use in developing countries : methodological framework for the assessment of the economic and environmental impact connected to land use activities in tropical forest areas : an Ecuadorian Amazon case study /." Roskilde : Department of Social Science, Roskilde University, 1998. http://www.rub.ruc.dk/epublisher/resume_climate%20change.pdf.

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Buitron, Cañadas Viviana [Verfasser], Perdita [Akademischer Betreuer] Pohle, Sandoval Maria [Akademischer Betreuer] Lopez, Fred [Gutachter] Krüger, and Achim [Gutachter] Bräuning. "Land-use/land-cover change (LUCC) in the context of an agricultural frontier in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon: A multiscale and interethnic perspective / Viviana Buitron Cañadas ; Gutachter: Fred Krüger, Achim Bräuning ; Perdita Pohle, Maria Lopez Sandoval." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2019. http://d-nb.info/1201886880/34.

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Bette, Miriam. "Political tourism? : A critical social analysis on ecotourism and the indigenous struggle in the Ecuadorian Amazons." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-168891.

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Enabled by a Minor Field Study scholarship from SIDA, this thesis examines indigenous involvement in ecotourism in the Ecuadorian Amazons. Indigenous people are the most marginalized social group world-wide, and coincidingly often live in resource rich pristine land. The oil-rich lands of the Amazons is called a resource frontier and is now increasingly important for the tourism sector, which comes to entail conflict of interests between the State and indigenous communities living in this area. Both the global call for sustainable development and national policies of “Buen Vivir” promotes ecotourism as an ecologically, socio-economically, and culturally sustainable activity. Scholarly opinion suggest that ecotourism generates potential tools of empowerment for the involved indigenous communities. With this backdrop and with the theoretical framework of the postcolonial debate, main opportunities and challenges are examined with the correlation of tourism ventures and socio-political implications in the local reality of indigenous organizations in Tena, Napo. Complex impediments are uncovered and analysed within the social field of indigenous ecotourism. The conviction of the study holds the call for attentive cross-cultural communication in order to continue the seemingly inevitable path of globalization in a more sustainable and non-discriminatory manner.

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Buitrón, Arias Natalia. "The attraction of unity : power, knowledge, and community among the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2016. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3376/.

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This thesis is about how the Shuar, a group of people living in South-Eastern Ecuador, create centralised political institutions. Over the last century, Shuar have experienced a rapid transition from a highly mobile lifestyle based on small, fluid, politically autonomous family groups to a sedentary life in large, nucleated communities. Owing to the decline of missionary involvement, the gradual loss of power of the ethnic federations, and drastic changes in the subsistence base, Shuar have also become increasingly reliant on state-derived resources, secured by their participation in electoral politics. Based on long-term fieldwork within a network of forest sedentary communities, the thesis explores how Shuar seek to organise themselves in order to live together peacefully and to benefit from public resources while keeping the state at bay. It shows how Shuar have acted creatively to institute new forms of centralised political association which enable them to suppress longstanding antagonistic relations while still prioritising personal and domestic autonomy. Through their management of sedentary communities and their appropriation of external institutions such as schools and government offices, Shuar effectively regenerate domestic wellbeing and valued forms of selfhood. At the same time, they create new political categories and individual identities. The interplay between everyday sociality and consciously created political collectivity reveals the importance of two contrasting but interlinked processes: the flexible shifting back and forth between centralised and decentralised social arrangements; and the emergence of increasingly formalised ways of organising collective life, along with inflexible forms of inequality that escape internal control. By showing how processes of institutionalisation can result in increased formalisation and stratification, but also in social fluidity and political improvisation, the thesis contributes to the broader anthropological understanding of state formation and the political imagination.

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Madimenos, Felicia C. 1980. "Reproductive Trade-Offs in Skeletal Health and Physical Activity among the Indigenous Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia: A Life History Approach." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11977.

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xx, 229 p. : ill. (some col.) Reproductive effort is a central element of human biology and ecology. Particularly for females, reproduction is energetically demanding, with elevated metabolic costs during pregnancy and lactation, followed by high child care costs. To satisfy energetic needs, women can adopt various physiological and behavioral strategies. On a physiological level, the energetic requirements of offspring may be met by adjusting metabolic allocation and/or drawing on maternal bodily reserves. On a behavioral level, women may reduce energy expenditure and/or increase energy intake. This study examined reproductive trade-offs in activity and skeletal health among the indigenous Shuar forager-horticulturalists of Ecuadorian Amazonia and had two main objectives. First, this research examined trade-offs in energy use during female reproductive states and behavioral adjustments made by females and males to meet high reproductive demands. Second, this study investigated skeletal health profiles among Shuar, as well non-Shuar Colonos, to identify the relationships between female reproductive factors and skeletal health. Research was conducted among adults in four Morona-Santiago communities. Skeletal health was measured using calcaneal ultrasonometry, and physical activity was measured using accelerometry. Extensive information on sociodemographics and reproduction was assessed through structured interviews. Age-related declines in bone mineral density (BMD) were observed for Shuar and Colonos, while Shuar BMD was significantly higher than that of other populations. These results suggest that normative data from developed countries may reflect suboptimal bone density levels. Regarding reproductive effects on skeletal health, results indicate that earlier menarcheal age and greater stature are associated with better bone health in postmenopausal life. These conclusions suggest the importance of the timing of early developmental stages in establishing bone status in adulthood. Results demonstrate that physical activity levels were similar between pregnant/lactating (P/L) and other women. However, P/L women appear to compensate for elevated energetic demands by relying on a male partner who has increased his energy expenditure, suggesting greater participation in subsistence activities. Overall, this study demonstrates the importance of biocultural strategies among women to meet high reproductive costs. Further, it emphasizes the utility of a life history framework for identifying trade-offs in physiology and behavior. This dissertation contains previously published and unpublished co-authored material. Committee in charge: Dr. J. Josh Snodgrass, Chair; Dr. Lawrence S. Sugiyama, Member; Dr. John Lukacs, Member; Dr. John Halliwell, Outside Member

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Persons, Alexander D. "Oil, settlement, and political ecology of the Ecuadorian Amazon." 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/45048287.html.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1999. Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-93).

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Riach, James Robert. "Health patterns of the Secoya of the northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon." 2001. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/riach%5Fjames%5Fr%5F200112%5Fphd.

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Jawanda, Jasmindra. "The role of socially responsible corporations in community development : a case study of Fundacion Nanpaz in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10265.

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Natural resource extraction has a deeply rooted legacy in the developing world, especially in Latin America, due to the historical onslaught of colonialism and mercantilism. For the past couple of decades, Latin America has been experiencing the phenomenon of globalization, accompanied by the influx of trans-national natural resource companies whose main mandate seems to be to enter a country, extract resources and then exit the area. However, as a result of this type of corporate conduct, the surrounding communities are often left in a state of cultural and environmental degradation. Interestingly, a new era of "corporate consciousness" is entering the business world where corporations are chanting the mantra of "social responsibility" and are thereby becoming committed to creating positive change in many marginalized communities throughout the world. This thesis examines two themes: (1) the role of a trans-national oil company as a "socially responsible" company in the communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon and; (2) the establishment of a local NGO, as a bridge between the trans-national oil company and communities, in order to implement viable community development projects. A community questionnaire (structured interview) was applied and unstructured interviews were conducted with community residents, NGO staff and environmental specialists. The principal findings were: (1) petroleum development creates adverse effects on the social, cultural, economic and environmental fabric of many communities; (2) there is a dire need for community organization for communities to become selfsufficient; (3) community residents must become part of the political process in order for their voices to be heard and recognized and; (4) community development projects can provide marginalized communities with alternative livelihood opportunities and effective conservation programs.

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