2007 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California Online Program

Paper Session: 5138 Conservation and Development from the Andes to the Amazon I is scheduled on Saturday, 4/21/07, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in Union Square 15, SF Hilton Sponsorship(s): Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group Latin America Specialty Group Organizer(s): Clark Gray - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Chair(s): Clark Gray - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Abstract(s):   8:00 AM   Author(s): *Andres Guhl - Universidad De Los Andes  Abstract Title: From degraded landscape to tourism heaven: history, environment and development in Villa de Leyva, Colombia 8:20 AM   Author(s): *Gregory W. Knapp - University Of Texas - Austin  Abstract Title: Greenhouse Floriculture: Aspects of an Agricultural Revolution in the Equatorial Andes 8:40 AM   Author(s): *James R. Keese - Cal Poly State University, SLO  Abstract Title: Identifying and Assessing Tropical Montane Forests on the Eastern Flank of the Andes of Ecuador 9:00 AM   Author(s): *Drew E. Bennett - University of Texas-Austin Rodrigo Sierra - University of Texas-Austin  Abstract Title: From Cattle to Cacao: Changes in Indigenous Land-use in the Ecuadorian Amazon Session Description: This session is part of a four-session series which will examine issues of environmental conservation and human development in the Andes and the Amazon basin. Geographers, including political and cultural ecologists, land-use change scientists and others have been at the forefront of investigating conservation and development issues in this biodiverse and ethnodiverse region. The papers draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to address issues of land-use change, indigenous resource use, and people and parks as well as other human-environment interactions in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Guyana.

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