Según algunos autores el noroeste del Edo de Puebla y el noreste del de Querétaro también forman parte de la región. La región la habitan principalmente los mestizos con una proporción notoria de las comunidades indígenas nahua y teenek. 2 Los dos textos publicados a continuación el de Agata Zarzycka y el de Joanna Miętkiewska-Brynda conciernen a algunos aspectos de la misma investigación.
Ongoing discussions concerning the concept of development applied within the context of peripheral regions (including rural development, regional development, sustainable development, local development, etc.), and particularly its critical deconstruction, encourage us to look for new theoretical approaches and terminological constructs that would be useful in research and design of desired changes taking place in rural areas and that could substitute the contested notion of “development.” The text discusses strengths and weaknesses of “sustainable rural livelihood” — as a concept, as well as a framework of academic analysis and action — in the context of its application within “rural development” studies.
Bogumila Lisocka-Jaegermann, Jerzy Makowski, Maria Skoczek TOURISM AND THE LOCAL ECONOMY IN ECUADOR 3 In Ecuador 20 000-25 000 of plants species were identified, 324 species of mammals, 1560 of birds (the fourth country in the world after Colombia, Peru and Brazil), 402 species of reptiles, 406 of amphibians, 710 of river fish and 1300 species of snails (Parques Nacionales y Otras Areas Protegidas del Ecuador Ecociencia 1994, cited according to Propuestas.... (1995) p. 28). 4 Metropolitan Touring, KLEINTOURS and ETNOTUR are among the most important travel agencies, with main offices in Quito and regional branches in capitals of the majority of provinces. Local agencies specialize in ecological tourism, especially the Amazon trips. They have offices in Baños (Tungurahua province)-on the route Quito-Ambato-Puyo known as the gateway to the Amazon, as well as in some of the Amazon towns, such as Puyo, Tena, Misahuallí, Coca (Puerto Francisco Orellana), Lago Agrio (Nueva Loja).
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