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Description:    A transition to programmes adopting a governance-based approach in encouraging value-added and innovation in rural economies is often described as offering new opportunities for marginalised rural communities that have not benefited from top-down development policies. In practice, however, it is noted in Ireland and elsewhere in the EU that traditional fishers and farmers have been slow to engage in economic activities favoured by contemporary policies. I discuss how traditional small-scale fishing communities can be estranged from contemporary rural development policies that are focused primarily on providing high value-added service-oriented and processed goods. I approach the problem of poor integration of fishing communities by focusing on how contemporary rural development programmes - though shrouded in language of local participation, governance, and indigenisation - can fail to actively engage with indigenous socio-cultural identity and resources. Exploring how intricate human ecological relationships involving custom and local knowledge of physical resources are not readily commoditised, I raise questions in relation to some of the central claims of the governance and rural development model, such as that it has the capacity to empower and generate confidence through locally appropriate economic activity. Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-13 DOI 10.1007/s10745-012-9477-4 Authors Áine Macken-Walsh, Rural Economy and Development Programme (REDP), Teagasc,, Co. Galway, Ireland Journal Human Ecology Online ISSN 1572-9915 Print ISSN 0300-7839

Description:    India is home to thousands of community-protected forests, called sacred groves. Sacred forests or groves are sites that have cultural or spiritual significance to the people who live around them. These areas may also be key reservoirs of biodiversity. In India, most sacred groves are managed by a community group, not by a government agency. They are often private or community land, not formal protected areas or parks. This poses an interesting challenge in terms of future management and possible policy relating to the sacred groves. On the international level, organizations such as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and UNESCO have created guidelines for management of sacred sites. On the national level, India’s past Forest Acts and recent Forest Rights Act have relevance to the sacred groves. Local differences in land tenure also affect the groves. Ethnographic research conducted in 2009 and 2010 in the states of Meghalaya and Karnataka, India, evaluated the historic and current management and beliefs associated with sacred forests. Cultural change and pressure to use natural resources within the groves is leading to reduction of these forest areas. In the future, a creative combination of policy approaches to conserve groves that respects their spiritual values is recommended. Content Type Journal Article Pages 783-793 DOI 10.1007/s10745-011-9441-8 Authors Alison A. Ormsby, Environmental Studies, Eckerd College, 4200 54th Ave. S, St. Petersburg, FL 33711, USA Journal Human Ecology Online ISSN 1572-9915 Print ISSN 0300-7839 Journal Volume Volume 39 Journal Issue Volume 39, Number 6

Description:    Given the complex and multidimensional nature of human evolution, we need to develop theoretical and methodological frameworks to account for and model the dynamic feedbacks between co-operational biological and cultural evolutionary systems to better understand the processes that produced modern human behavior. Equally important is the generation of explicit theory-based models that can be tested against the empirical paleoanthropological record. We present a case study that examines evidence for culturally-driven behavioral change among Late Pleistocene hominins that altered the social niche occupied by hominins in western Eurasia, with consequences for subsequent biological and cultural evolution. We draw on a large sample of 167 Pleistocene assemblages across western Eurasia and employ mathematical and computational modeling to explore the feedbacks between cultural and biological inheritance. Shifts in land-use strategies changed the opportunities for social and biological interaction among Late Pleistocene hominins in western Eurasia with a cascade of consequences for cultural and biological evolution, including the disappearance of Neanderthals from the fossil and archaeological records, and the acceleration of cultural evolution among ancestors of modern humans. Content Type Journal Article Pages 705-725 DOI 10.1007/s10745-011-9433-8 Authors C. Michael Barton, Centre for Social Dynamics & Complexity, Arizona State University, PO Box 872804, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402, USA Julien Riel-Salvatore, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver, Campus Box 103, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA John M. Anderies, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, School of Sustainability, and Centre for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University, PO Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402, USA Gabriel Popescu, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University, PO Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402, USA Journal Human Ecology Online ISSN 1572-9915 Print ISSN 0300-7839 Journal Volume Volume 39 Journal Issue Volume 39, Number 6

Description: Cross-Cultural Agreement in Perception of Animal Beauty: Boid Snakes Viewed by People from Five Continents Content Type Journal Article Pages 829-834 DOI 10.1007/s10745-011-9447-2 Authors Daniel Frynta, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague, CZ-128 44 Czech Republic Jana Marešová, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague, CZ-128 44 Czech Republic Milada Řeháková-Petrů, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague, CZ-128 44 Czech Republic Jan Šklíba, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic Radim Šumbera, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic Antonín Krása, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Journal Human Ecology Online ISSN 1572-9915 Print ISSN 0300-7839 Journal Volume Volume 39 Journal Issue Volume 39, Number 6

Description: Does a Baconian Vision of Nature Dominate Among Researchers in Ecology? A Case Study in an Ecological Reserve of the IBGE in Central Brazil Content Type Journal Article Pages 835-839 DOI 10.1007/s10745-011-9440-9 Authors Carlos Hiroo Saito, Department of Ecology, University of Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil Mariana Ribeiro Gomes, Department of Ecology, University of Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil Luzia Etelvina de Almeida, Department of Ecology, University of Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil Journal Human Ecology Online ISSN 1572-9915 Print ISSN 0300-7839 Journal Volume Volume 39 Journal Issue Volume 39, Number 6

Description:    Whaling remains one of the most contentious issues in global conservation. In South Korea, where commercial and subsistence whaling are both illegal, domestic sales of cetacean products such as skin, blubber and red meat are allowed if they are accidently caught. However, environmental groups have claimed that the high price of meat may be acting as an incentive for illegal hunting and ‘deliberate by-catch’ where whales are intentionally killed or left to die by fishermen when they become trapped in their nets. In this paper we investigate the issue of deliberate by-catch and illegal hunting of the protected Minke J-stock population in Korean waters using grounded theory, an approach that allows theories and understanding to emerge from the analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data. Our research suggests that deliberate by-catch is almost certainly taking place but that illegal hunting and/or illegal importation from Japan may be far more significant sources of Minke whale meat. We discuss possible measures to reduce incentives for deliberate by-catch and illegal hunting such as the introduction of mandatory reporting of quantities supplied and consumed in restaurants and a tax on meat sales at auction. More generally, our research illustrates how the analysis of price movements can shed light on the scale of illegal wildlife trade and how a combination of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies can provide understanding of a complex, multifaceted conservation issue. Content Type Journal Article Pages 757-768 DOI 10.1007/s10745-011-9429-4 Authors Douglas Craig MacMillan, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Jeonghee Han, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Journal Human Ecology Online ISSN 1572-9915 Print ISSN 0300-7839 Journal Volume Volume 39 Journal Issue Volume 39, Number 6

Description: Reasonable Economic Costs of Amphibian Conservation in Urban Environments: A Case Study in North Spain Content Type Journal Article Pages 807-812 DOI 10.1007/s10745-011-9437-4 Authors Claudia Garcia-Gonzalez, Departamento de Biologia Funcional, Universidad de Oviedo, C/Julian Claveria s/n., 33006 Oviedo, Spain Eva Garcia-Vazquez, Departamento de Biologia Funcional, Universidad de Oviedo, C/Julian Claveria s/n., 33006 Oviedo, Spain Journal Human Ecology Online ISSN 1572-9915 Print ISSN 0300-7839 Journal Volume Volume 39 Journal Issue Volume 39, Number 6

Description: David Lamb: Regreening the Bare Hills: Tropical Forest Restoration in the Asia-Pacific Region Content Type Journal Article Pages 841-842 DOI 10.1007/s10745-011-9436-5 Authors The CenTREAD Working Group, c/o K. D. Holl Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA Journal Human Ecology Online ISSN 1572-9915 Print ISSN 0300-7839 Journal Volume Volume 39 Journal Issue Volume 39, Number 6

Description: Ecological Conditions vs. Religious Denomination. Mortality Among Catholics and Lutherans in Nineteenth-Century Poznań Content Type Journal Article Pages 795-806 DOI 10.1007/s10745-011-9428-5 Authors Grażyna Liczbińska, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland Journal Human Ecology Online ISSN 1572-9915 Print ISSN 0300-7839 Journal Volume Volume 39 Journal Issue Volume 39, Number 6

Description: The Traditional Use of Plants for Handicrafts in Southeastern Europe Content Type Journal Article Pages 813-828 DOI 10.1007/s10745-011-9432-9 Authors Anely Nedelcheva, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria Yunus Dogan, Buca Faculty of Education, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey Dragica Obratov-Petkovic, Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Ioana M. Padure, Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest, Romania Journal Human Ecology Online ISSN 1572-9915 Print ISSN 0300-7839 Journal Volume Volume 39 Journal Issue Volume 39, Number 6