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People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America

Edited by Kirsten M. Silvius, Richard E. Bodmer, and José M. V. Fragoso

Paper, 464 pages, 58 line drawings, 2 halftones, 3 color figs, 73 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-12783-7
$45.00 / £26.50

January, 2005
Cloth, 464 pages, 58 line drawings, 2 halftones, 3 color figs, 73 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-12782-0
$90.00 / £53.00

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Introduction

Chapter 1. Wildlife Conservation and Management in South and Central America: Multiple Pressures and Innovative solutions, by José M. V. Fragoso, Richard E. Bodmer and Kirsten M. Silvius

Part I. Local peoples and Community Management

Chapter 2. Wildlife management strategies with the Embera people in the Utria National Park, by Chocó, Colombia, Astrid Ulloa, Claudia Campos, and Heidi Rubio-Torgler

Chapter 3. Bridging the gap between western scientific and traditional indigenous wildlife management, by Kirsten M. Silvius

Chapter 4. Techniques to increase community participation in wildlife management programs: general approaches, by Wendy R. Townsend

Chapter 5. Community-based wildlife management in the Gran Chaco, by Bolivia, Andrew J. Noss and Michael Painter

Chapter 6. Fisheries Management and Conservation in the Amazon Várzea Floodplain, by William G. R. Crampton, Leandro Castello and João Paulo Viana

Chapter 7. Fisheries Management in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, by William G. R. Crampton, João Paulo Viana, Leandro Castello and José María B. Dam

Chapter 8. Hunting effort analysis by rural communities in Northeastern Peru, by Pablo E. Puertas and Richard E. Bodmer

Part II. Economic Considerations

Chapter 9. Community management of fishery resources in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, by Amazonas, BrazilJoão Paulo Viana, José Maria B. Damasceno, Leandro Castello, Wi

Chapter 10. Community ownership and live Shearing of vicuñas in Peru, by Catherine T. Sahley, Jorge Torres Vargas and Jesús Sánchez Valdivia

Chapter 11. Captive breeding programs as an alternative for wildlife conservation in Brazil, by Sergio Nogueira-Filho and Selene Siqueira da Cunha Nogueira

Chapter 12. Economic Analysis of Wildlife Use in the Peruvian Amazon, by Richard Bodmer, and Eterzit Pezo Lozano and Tula G. Fang

Part III. Fragmentation and other non-harvest human impacts

Chapter 13. Population management of mammals in Atlantic Forest fragments of Brazil, by Laury Cullen Jr., Richard E. Bodmer, Claudio Valladares-Pádua, and Jonathan D. B

Chapter 14. Human pressure, by abundance and spatial distribution of Orinoco Crocodiles in the Cojedes River sy

Chapter 15. Impacts of Damming on Primate Community Sructure in the Amazon—A Case Study of the Samuel Dam, by Rondônia, Brazil, Rosa M. Lemos de Sá

Chapter 16. Resource partitioning of pampas deer, by brocket deer and cattle in the Pantanal, Brazil, Laurenz Pinder

Chapter 17. Ecology and conservation of the Jaguar in Iguaçu National Park, by Peter G. Crawshaw Jr., Jan K. Mähler, Cibele Indrusiak, Sandra M.C. Cavalcanti,

Chapter 18. Local white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) population declines in Amazonia: Migration, by overhunting or epidemic?, José M. V. Fragoso

Part IV. Hunting Impacts--biological basis and rationale for sustainability

Chapter 19. Evaluating the sustainability of hunting in the Neotropics, by Richard E. Bodmer and John G. Robinson

Chapter 20. Hunting sustainability of ungulate populations in the Lacandon forest, by Mexico, Eduardo J. Naranjo, Jorge E. Bolaños, Michelle M. Guerra, and Richard E.

Chapter 21. Title: Conservation of economically important birds in seasonally-flooded forests of the northeastern Peruvian Amazon, by José A. González

Chapter 22. Patterns of use and hunting of turtles in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, by Amazonas, Brazil, Augusto Fachin Teran, Richard C. Vogt, and John B. Thorbjarnar

Chapter 23. Fisheries, by Fishing Effort and Fish Consumption in the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve and i

Chapter 24. Title: Implications of the spatial structure of game populations for the sustainability of hunting in the Neotropics, by Andrés J. Novaro

Chapter 25. Hunting and wildlife management in French Guiana: Current aspects and future prospects, by Cécile Richard-Hansen and Eric Hansen

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About the Author

Kirsten M. Silvius and José M. V. Fragoso are professors in the Faculty of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York. Richard E. Bodmer is a professor at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

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