No Podemos Comer Billetes: Climate Change and Development in Southern Ecuador
NO PODEMOS COMER BILLETES: CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN ECUADOR by Lisa Coffield DePaoli B.A. in Psychology and Anthropology, California University of Pennsylvania, 2000 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology University of Pittsburgh 2011 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH DIETRICH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Department of Anthropology This dissertation was presented by Lisa Coffield DePaoli It was defended on October 12, 2011 and approved by Dissertation Advisor: Richard Scaglion, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology Andrew Strathern, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology James Richardson, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology Mark Abbott, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Planetary Sciences María-Auxiliadora Cordero, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Anthropology ii Copyright © by Lisa Coffield DePaoli 2011 iii NO PODEMOS COMER BILLETES: CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN ECUADOR Lisa Coffield DePaoli, PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2011 This project investigates the relationship between autochthonous people and immigrants in a valley of southern Ecuador, specifically in terms of climate change and related moves toward sustainable development. The landscape and environment are frequent topics of conversation, especially concerning the increasingly dry climate. Engagements between individuals often result in dynamic relationships in which people take active steps to curtail human impacts, such as developing new land-use and livelihood strategies. Southern Ecuador has historically experienced the effects of periodic drought, and land degradation is exacerbating the problem. This and other factors, including the relative isolation and lack of rural development in Loja province and the overall economic situation in Ecuador, has resulted in large-scale migration of Ecuadorians from the province of Loja.
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