Peru

This article provides a synopsis of the author’s previous research on community-based tourism in the Peruvian Andes in two communities: Taquile Island and Chiquian. Various publications are summarized, with a focus on their key connective ingredient - community integration in tourism. In this formula, three critical parameters are highlighted: (1) community awareness, (2) community unity...

The Andean paramo and puna zones may once have been densely dotted by woodlands, mainly of Polylepis, but human impact has now led to a highly disjunct distribution of this habitat. Because of the habitat fragmentation, many specialized woodland birds now show relictual distributions. Speciations to the Polylepis zone took place in Peru and Bolivia during cold/arid climatic periods, as...

For nearly 20 years one woman has been battling to restore the elaborate Inca Canals in the Peruvian Andes, which once supported a thriving population of farmers. All over the Peruvian Andes, beautifully engineered Inca-built irrigation canals once distributed water to elaborate terrace systems. In turn, the terraces oases of cultivation on the precipitous and other wise barren mountain slopes...

The case the authors are presenting is a study of social conflict on the plateau of Collao, which encompasses the department of Puno, located in the macroregion of the south of Peru. This reflection focuses on the analysis of productive systems that have begun to be established in the rural environment, the dynamic of structural transformations and the behaviour of the social actors;...