Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Linking Sustainability Science, Community and Culture: a Research Partnership in Cotacachi, Ecuador -- PART I: TIME AND LANDSCAPE IN COTACACHI -- 2 Shaping an Andean Landscape: Processes Affecting Topography, Soils and Hydrology in Cotacachi -- 3 Incursion, Fragmentation and Tradition: Historical Ecology of Andean Cotacachi -- 4 Four Decades of Land Use Change in the Cotacachi Andes: 1963-2000 -- 5 Climate Change in Cotacachi -- 6 Traversing a Landscape of Memory -- PART II: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND USE -- 7 Biological Diversity in Cotacachi's Andean Forests -- 8 Trees and Trade-offs: Perceptions of Eucalyptus and Native Trees in Ecuadorian Highland Communities -- 9 Living, Dwindling, Losing, Finding: Status and Changes in Agrobiodiversity of Cotacachi -- 10 Women and Homegardens of Cotacachi -- 11 Good to Eat, Good to Think: Food, Culture and Biodiversity in Cotacachi -- PART III: SOILS, WATER AND SUSTAINABILITY -- 12 Toward Sustainable Crop Production in Cotacachi: an Assessment of the Soils' Nutrient Status -- 13 Plant-Water Relationships in an Andean Landscape: Modelling the Effect of Irrigation on Upland Crop Production -- 14 Water Quality and Human Needs in Cotacachi: the Pichavi Watershed -- 15 Local Resolution of Watershed Management Trade-offs: the Case of Cotacachi -- 16 Community-based Water Monitoring in Cotacachi -- PART IV: NEGOTIATING 'DEVELOPMENT WITH IDENTITY' -- 17 Why is the Earth Tired? A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Change and Intervention in Northern Ecuador -- 18 Circular Migration and Community Identity: Their Relationship to the Land -- 19 Social Capital and Advocacy Coalitions: Examples of Environment Issues from Ecuador -- 20 Future Visioning for the Cotacachi Andes: Scientific Models and Local Perspectives on Land Use Change.

21 Sustainability Science in Indigenous Communities: Reconciling Local and Global Agendas -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Colour plate.