Soil erosion and social (dis)courses in Cochabamba, Bolivia: Perceiving the nature of environmental degradation

dc.contributor.authorZimmerer, K. S.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialBoliviaen
dc.coverage.spatialLatin Americaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:07:58Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:07:58Zen
dc.date.issued1993en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses three viewpoints concerning soil erosion among rural trade unions, peasant farmers, and development organizations in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Until the 1980s, development organizations contended that peasant farmers caused soil erosion. After the 1980s, rural trade unions challenged development organizations' perspectives, maintaining that social, political, and economic policies, not peasant farmers, have shaped Bolivian landscapes and policies which cause soil erosion. In this article, emphasis is placed on the recognition of local farmers' perspectives on the causes of environmental degradation for a well-formed approach in conservation and local-global relationships. Methodologies of this case study focus on participatory interviews with local peasant farmers and participatory observation.en
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dc.identifier4724en
dc.identifier.citationEconomic Geography 69(3): 312-327en
dc.identifier.issn0013-0095en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68960en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherWorcester, MA: Clark Universityen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.jstor.org/stable/143453en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2003 Clark University and JSTORen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSoil erosionen
dc.subjectSoil conservationen
dc.subjectEnvironmental perceptionsen
dc.subjectDevelopmenten
dc.subjectBoliviaen
dc.subjectPeasant economyen
dc.subjectEnvironmental degradationen
dc.subjectDiscourseen
dc.subjectPolitical ecologyen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale Governanceen
dc.titleSoil erosion and social (dis)courses in Cochabamba, Bolivia: Perceiving the nature of environmental degradationen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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