Robert C Rhoades

Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope: Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity

Food is more than simple sustenance. It feeds our minds as well as our bodies. It nurtures us emotionally as well as physically. It holds memories. In fact, one of the surprising consequences of globalization and urbanization is the expanding web of emotional attachments to farmland, to food grower...

Roadside Prey

Follows the disturbing story of truck driver Robert Ben Rhoades, whose obsession with violent sex prompted him to pick up prostitutes, runaways, and lonely women and torture them to death, a practice that went undetected for fifteen years. Original.

Development with Identity: Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes

Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are demanding that development must address local priorities, including ethnic identity. Simultaneously, sustainability scientists need to conduct place-based research on the interaction between environment and society that will have global relevance. Thi...

Medical aspects of the imported fire ant

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Integrated Conversation and Development in Tropical America - Experiences and Lessons in Linking Communities, Projects, and Policies

Integrated Conservation and Development Programs (ICDP) emerged in the mid-1980s as a dual strategy to ensure long-term environmental protection and management of protected areas while simultaneously improving the quality of life of local people residing inside parks or their buffer zones. In the fi...

Medical Aspects of the Imported Fire Ant

Breaking New Ground: Agricultural Anthropology

Diversity, Farmer Knowledge, and Sustainability

Diversity, Farmer Knowledge, and Sustainability

Development With Identity: Community, Culture And Sustainability in the Andes

The Farmers of Yurimaguas: Land Use and Cropping Strategies in the Peruvian Jungle

Pathways towards a Sustainable Mountain Agriculture for the 21st Century: The Hindu Kush-Himalayan Experience

Bridging Human and Ecological Landscapes: Participatory Research and Eco-Development in a Ecuadorian