title: Exploring indigenous landscape classification across different dimensions: a case study from the Bolivian Amazon.
abstract: Decisions on landscape management are often dictated by government officials based on their own understandings of how landscape should be used and managed, but rarely considering local peoples' understandings of the landscape they inhabit. We use data collected through free listings, field transects, and interviews to describe how an Amazonian group of hunter-horticulturalists, the Tsimane', classify and perceive the importance of different elements of the landscape across the ecological, socioeconomic, and spiritual dimensions. The Tsimane' recognize ninefolk ecotopes(i.e., culturally-recognized landscape units) and use a variety of criteria (including geomorphological features and landscape uses) to differentiate ecotopes from one another. The Tsimane' rank different folk ecotopes in accordance with their perceived ecological, socioeconomic, and spiritual importance. Understanding how local people perceive their landscape contributes towards a landscape management planning paradigm that acknowledges the continuing contributions to management of landscape inhabitants, as well as their cultural and land use rights.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Ciència i Tecnología Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Carles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Riu-Bosoms
authors.affiliation: Institut de Ciència i Tecnología Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vidal-Amat
authors.affiliation: Institut de Ciència i Tecnología Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Duane
authors.affiliation: Institut de Ciència i Tecnología Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Alvaro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fernandez-Llamazares
authors.affiliation: Institut de Ciència i Tecnología Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Maximilien
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guèze
authors.affiliation: Institut de Ciència i Tecnología Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Ana C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Luz
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biología, Unidad de Botánica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Calle Darwin 2, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Manuel J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Macía
authors.affiliation: Institut de Ciència i Tecnología Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain ; Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 58190 Morelia, Mexico.
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paneque-Gálvez
authors.affiliation: ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnología Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Reyes-García
keywords: Bolivian Amazon; Ethnoecology; Indigenous people; Landscape ethnoclassification; Old-growth forest
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