Ecuador: Landscape Ideologies, Indigenous Governance, And Land Use Change In The Ecuadorian ...

Ecuador: Landscape Ideologies, Indigenous Governance, And Land Use Change In The Ecuadorian Amazon, 1960–1992 Juliet S. Erazo, 2011   In recent years, states have ceded governance over large territories to indigenous organizations. This article examines the history of an early case of territorial governance (dating from the 1970s) to probe the social, political, and environmental processes that occur when an indigenous social movement becomes a governing body. It argues that indigenous...

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