Part 1. Health and Adaptation Approaches -- A Half-Century Portrait: Health Transition in the Xavante Indians from Central Brazil / Ricardo Ventura Santos, Carlos E.A. Coimbra Jr. and James R. Welch -- Balancing People, Policies, and Resources in Rural Tibet / Geoff Childs, Melvyn C. Goldstein and Puchung Wangdui -- Human-Wildlife Contact and Emerging Infectious Diseases / Michael P. Muehlenbein --Introduction to Human-Environment Interactions Research / Emilio F. Moran and Eduardo S. Brondízio. Part 2. Land Change and Landscape Management Approaches -- Change in Natural Resource Management: An Experiment with "Participatory GIS" / Stefano Fiorini -- Peopled Parks: Forest Change in India's Protected Landscapes / Harini Nagendra, Pinki Mondal, Sanchayeeta Adhikari and Jane Southworth -- Public-Private Interactions in the Conservation of Private Forests in the United States / Tatyana B. Ruseva and Burnell C. Fischer --The Monitoring of Land-Cover Change and Management across Gradient Landscapes in Africa / Cerian Gibbes, Lin Cassidy, Joel Hartter and Jane Southworth. Part 3. Institutional and Political Ecology Approaches -- Between Cooperation and Conflict: The Implementation of Agro-Extractive Settlements in the Lower Amazon Floodplain / Fabio de Castro -- Conservation of Natural Resources: Which Matters -- Having a Regulation or the Size of the Penalty Imposed? / Maria Claudia Lopez -- Small-Scale Farmers and the Challenges of Environmental Conservation and Rural Development: Case Studies from the State of São Paulo and the Amazon Region / Célia Futemma -- Institutional Evolution, Forest Conservation, and Rapid Change in Rural Honduras / Catherine M. Tucker -- Land-Use Institutions and Natural Resources in Fast-Growing Communities at the Urban-Rural Fringe / Abigail M. York and Darla K. Munroe. Part 4. Historical and Archeological Approaches -- Agroforestry in Tomé-Açu: An Alternative to Pasture in the Amazon / Mateus Batistella, Édson Luis Bolfe and Emilio F. Moran -- Changing Driving Forces, Imposed Tenure Regimes, and Tree-Cover Change on Village Landscapes in the West Mengo Region of Uganda, 1890-2002 / Nathan D. Vogt -- Was Agriculture a Key Productive Activity in Pre-Colonial Amazonia? The Stable Productive Basis for Social Equality in the Central Amazon / Eduardo Góes Neves. Part 5. Future Directions -- Human-Environment Research: Past Trends, Current Challenges, and Future Directions / Eduardo S. Brondízio and Rinku Roy Chowdhury.

"Drawing on research from eleven countries across four continents, the 16 chapters in the volume bring perspectives from various specialties in anthropology and human ecology, institutional analysis, historical and political ecology, geography, archaeology, and land change sciences. The four sections of the volume reflect complementary approaches to HEI: health and adaptation approaches, land change and landscape management approaches, institutional and political-ecology approaches, and historical and archaeological approaches"--Résumé de l'éditeur.