Economic Development and Local Ecological Knowledge: A Deadlock? Quantitative Research from a Native Amazonian Society.

The article presents a quantitative research about the causes and rate of acquisition and loss of local ecological knowledge. The study examines how various forms of integration to the market economy affect local ecological knowledge. It advances the readers understanding of local ecological knowledge at the methodological and theoretical levels. It hypothesizes that only some forms of integration to the market economy, such as activities that take individuals out of their culture and environment, which were associated with less local ecological knowledge. The study also draws on information from 476 Tsiname', a foraging-horticultural society in the Bolivian Amazon.