TY - JOUR
T1 - Productive diversification and sustainable use of complex social-ecological systems: A comparative study of indigenous and settler communities in the Bolivian Amazon
AU - Bottazzi, Patrick
AU - Reyes-García, Victoria
AU - Crespo, David
AU - Marthez-Stiefel, Sarah Lan
AU - Galvarro, Harry Soria
AU - Jacobi, Johanna
AU - Clavijo, Marcelo
AU - Rist, Stephan
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Agricultural and forest productive diversification depends on multiple socioeconomic drivers-like knowledge, migration, productive capacity, and market-that shape productive strategies and influence their ecological impacts. Our comparison of indigenous and settlers allows a better understanding of how societies develop different diversification strategies in similar ecological contexts and how the related socioeconomic aspects of diversification are associated with land cover change. Our results suggest that although indigenous people cause less deforestation and diversify more, diversification is not a direct driver of deforestation reduction. A multidimensional approach linking sociocognitive, economic, and ecological patterns of diversification helps explain this contradiction. © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
AB - Agricultural and forest productive diversification depends on multiple socioeconomic drivers-like knowledge, migration, productive capacity, and market-that shape productive strategies and influence their ecological impacts. Our comparison of indigenous and settlers allows a better understanding of how societies develop different diversification strategies in similar ecological contexts and how the related socioeconomic aspects of diversification are associated with land cover change. Our results suggest that although indigenous people cause less deforestation and diversify more, diversification is not a direct driver of deforestation reduction. A multidimensional approach linking sociocognitive, economic, and ecological patterns of diversification helps explain this contradiction. © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
KW - Biocultural diversity
KW - Bolivian Amazon
KW - Deforestation
KW - Indigenous knowledge
KW - Productive diversification
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2013.841606
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2013.841606
M3 - Article
VL - 38
SP - 137
EP - 164
JO - Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
JF - Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
SN - 2168-3565
ER -