Human ecological dimensions in sustainable utilization and conservation of tropical mountain rain forests under global change in southern Ecuador

Profound knowledge of region-specific human ecological parameters is crucial for the sustainable utilization and conservation of tropical mountain rain forests in southern Ecuador, a region with heterogenic ethnic, socio-cultural and socio-economic structures. In order to satisfy the objectives of forest conservation on the one hand and the utilization claims of the local population on the other, an integrated concept of nature conservation and sustainable land use development is being sought (e.g. Ellenberg 1993). Within the human ecological research project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) presented here, four research topics have been explored in detail in indigenous Shuar and Saraguro as well as local Mestizo communities of southern Ecuador:

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