People in Nature : : Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America / / ed. by Kirsten Silvius, José Fragoso, Richard Bodmer.

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• MitwirkendeR: Ballou, Jonathan D.,; Bodmer, Richard E.,; Bolaños, Jorge E.,; Campos-Rozo, Claudia,; Castello, Leandro,; Cavalcanti, Sandra M. C.,; Crampton, William G. R.,; Crawshaw, Peter G.,; Cullen, Laury,; Damasceno, José Maria B.,; Damasceno, José María B.,; Fachín-Terán, Augusto,; Fang, Tula G.,; Fragoso, José M. V.,; González, José A.,; Guerra, Michelle M.,; Hansen, Eric,; Indrusiak, Cibele,; Leite-Pitman, Maria Renata P.,; Lemos De Sá, Rosa M.,; Lozano, Etersit Pezo,; Mähler, Jan K.,; Naranjo, Eduardo J.,; Nogueira, Selene Siqueira da Cunha,; Nogueira-Filho, Sérgio Luiz Gama,; Noss, Andrew J.,; Novaro, Andrés J.,; Painter, Michael D.,; Pinder, Laurenz,; Puertas, Pablo E.,; Richard-Hansen, Cécile,; Robinson, John G.,; Rubio-Torgler, Heidi,; Sahley, Catherine T.,; Seijas, Andrés E.,; Silvius, Kirsten M.,; Tello, Salvador,; Thorbjarnarson, John B.,; Townsend, Wendy R.,; Ulloa, Astrid,; Valdivia, Jesús Sánchez,; Valladares-Padua, Claudio,; Vargas, Jorge Torres,; Viana, João Paulo,; Viana,, João Paulo,; Vogt, Richard C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bodmer, Richard,; Fragoso, José,; Silvius, Kirsten,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.) :; 58 line drawings, 2 halftones, 3 color figs, 73 tables

This book reviews wildlife management and conservation in Central and South America. The book discusses the threats to biodiversity in this area including habitat fragmentation, development, ranching, tourism as well as hunting. The book contains contributions from many local Latin American authors who work there daily and are exposed to the numerous and unique issues that need to be taken into account when talking about conservation in Central and South America.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction-Wildlife Conservation and Management in South and Central America: Multiple Pressures and Innovative Solutions -- Part I. Local Peoples and Community Management -- 2. Conceptual Basis for the Selection of Wildlife Management Strategies by the Embera People in Utría National Park, Chocó, Colombia -- 3. Bridging the Gap Between Western Scientific and Traditional Indigenous Wildlife Management: The Xavante of Rio Das Mortes Indigenous Reserve, Mato Grosso, Brazil -- 4. Increasing Local Stakeholder Participation in Wildlife Management Projects with Rural Communities: Lessons from Bolivia -- 5. Community-Based Wildlife Management in the Gran Chaco, Bolivia -- 6. Fisheries in the Amazon Várzea: Historical Trends, Current Status, and Factors Affecting Sustainability -- 7. Fisheries Management in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve -- 8. Hunting Effort as a Tool for Community-Based Wildlife Management in Amazonia -- Part II. Economic Considerations -- 9. Economic Incentives for Sustainable Community Management of Fishery Resources in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil -- 10. Community Ownership and Live Shearing of Vicuñas in Peru: Evaluating Management Strategies and Their Sustainability -- 11. Captive Breeding Programs as an Alternative for Wildlife Conservation in Brazil -- 12. Economic Analysis of Wildlife Use in the Peruvian Amazon -- Part III. Fragmentation and Other Nonharvest Human Impacts -- 13. Mammalian Densities and Species Extinctions in Atlantic Forest Fragments: The Need for Population Management -- 14. Abundance, Spatial Distribution, and Human Pressure on Orinoco Crocodiles (Crocodylus intermedius) in the Cojedes River System, Venezuela -- 15. Impacts of Damming on Primate Community Structure in the Amazon: A Case Study of the Samuel Dam, Rondônia, Brazil -- 16. Niche Partitioning Among Gray Brocket Deer, Pampas Deer, and Cattle in the Pantanal of Brazil -- 17. Ecology and Conservation of the Jaguar (Panthera onca) in Iguaçu National Park, Brazil -- 18. A Long-Term Study of White-Lipped Peccary (Tayassu pecari) Population Fluctuations in Northern Amazonia: Anthropogenic vs. "Natural" Causes -- Part IV. Hunting Impacts-Biological Basis and Rationale for Sustainability -- 19. Evaluating the Sustainability of Hunting in the Neotropics -- 20. Hunting Sustainability of Ungulate Populations in the Lacandon Forest, Mexico -- 21. Human Use and Conservation of Economically Important Birds in Seasonally Flooded Forests of the Northeastern Peruvian Amazon -- 22. Patterns of Use and Hunting of Turtles in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil -- 23. Fisheries, Fishing Effort, and Fish Consumption in the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve and Its Area of Influence -- 24. Implications of the Spatial Structure of Game Populations for the Sustainability of Hunting in the Neotropics -- 25. Hunting and Wildlife Management in French Guiana: Current Aspects and Future Prospects -- Bibliography -- Index