Models of indigenous development / edited by Ian Skelton and Octavio Ixtacuy López

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Territory and dietary practices in central Quintana-Roo, Mexico Erin I. J. Estrada Lugo páginas 23-32 Territorial public policy in the highlands of Chiapas Manuel Roberto Parra Vézquez páginas 33-53

Foreword: Indigenous Planning.. Prólogo: La Planeacíon Indígena.. English Introduction.. Introducción en Español.. Chapter 1: Indigenous Development and Planning: Experiences at the University of Manitoba.. Chapter 2: Territory and Dietary Practices in Central Quintana-Roo, Mexico .. Chapter 3: Territorial Public Policy in the Highlands of Chiapas.. Chapter 4: Capacity Building, Planning and Indigenous Development.. Chapter 5: Community-based and Comprehensive: Reflections on Planning and Action in First Nations.. Chapter 6: Indigenous Planning and Source Water Protection.. Chapter 7: Winnipeg's 'Aboriginal Pathways': Assessing the Impacts of Interest Convergence and Co-production of Plans.. Epilogue: Statements on Indigenous Planning.. Epílogo: Declaración acerca de la Planeación Indígena

Around the world today Indigenous peoples strive to maintain their cultures and improve their living conditions. They do this in face of the legacies of colonial pasts and the forces of globalization that tend to induce their marginalization and impoverishment. In this book, the authors analyze development experiences aimed at enhancing the self-reliance of Indigenous communities. Focusing on different contexts In contemporary North America, the authors engage diverse topics such as relationships between political economy and Indigenous self-development, dietary practices as strategies of adaptation and social reproduction, planning as a resource for Indigenous development, and alternative strategies for the conservation of natural resources. The essays of this book, as stated in the Foreword by T. Jojola, demonstrate the "growing manifestations of Indigenous planning practices that are being crafted along cultural principles. eng