An early framework of national land use and geovisualization: Policy attributes and application of Pulgar Vidal's state-indigenous vision of Peru (1941–present)

Zimmerer, Karl S.; Bell, Martha G.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.03.023

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“…For the purposes of the present qualitative research, the orographic left side of the lower Shullcas Valley ( Fig. 1 ), which is entirely situated within the district of Huancayo, has been considered eminently suitable: (1) it represents a zone of major peri-urban development in Huancayo Metropolitano ( Haller and Borsdorf, 2013 ) and is locally known as one of the city's best residential areas; (2) it is mainly situated below 3500 m asl within the quechua altitudinal belt ( Pulgar Vidal, 1946; Zimmerer and Bell, 2013 )—the zone where almost all urbanization processes occur ( Haller, 2012 ).…”

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The “sowing of concrete”: Peri-urban smallholder perceptions of rural–urban land change in the Central Peruvian Andes

Haller

2014

Land Use Policy

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HighlightsA set of 20 perceptions toward rural–urban land change is inductively determined.Six major impacts of urbanization on peri-urban smallholders are identified.Service and infrastructure improvements are highlighted by more modernist groups.Urbanization is negatively perceived by traditionalist smallholder communities.Perceived income insecurity leads to adaptation of land use on steep slopes.

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The “sowing of concrete”: Peri-urban smallholder perceptions of rural–urban land change in the Central Peruvian Andes

Haller

2014

Land Use Policy

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“…Especially within the Peruvian context, Pulgar Vidal's framework of “the eight natural regions” (Pulgar Vidal, 1946) – it has recently been examined by Zimmerer and Bell (2013) – represents a useful altitudinal zonation of land use and cover that is adopted for the present study. A common characteristic of the literature mentioned is the focus on remote rural areas – giving little importance to rural–urban interfaces.…”

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Vivid valleys, pallid peaks? Hypsometric variations and rural–urban land change in the Central Peruvian Andes

Haller

2012

Applied Geography

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What happens to the land cover within the hinterland's altitudinal belts while Central Andean cities are undergoing globalization and urban restructuring? What conclusions can be drawn about changes in human land use? By incorporating a regional altitudinal zonation model, direct field observations and GIS analyses of remotely sensed long term data, the present study examines these questions using the example of Huancayo Metropolitano – an emerging Peruvian mountain city of 420,000 inhabitants, situated at 3260 m asl in the Mantaro Valley.The study's results indicate that rapid urban growth during the late 1980s and early 1990s was followed by the agricultural intensification and peri-urban condominization at the valley floor (quechua) – since the beginning of Peru's neoliberal era. Moreover, regarding the adjoining steep slopes (suni) and subsequent grassland ecosystems (puna), the research output presents land cover change trajectories that clearly show an expansion of human land use, such as reforestation for wood production and range burning for livestock grazing, even at high altitudes – despite rural–urban migration trends and contrary to several results of extra-Andean studies.Consequently, rural–urban planners and policy makers are challenged to focus on the manifold impacts of globalization on human land use – at all altitudinal belts of the Andean city's hinterland: toward sustainable mountain development that bridges the social and physical gaps – from the bottom up.

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“…Pulgar Vidal applied Tello's method to landscape classification. In the 1930-40s, several classifications for the Andean landscape were being used (see Pulgar Vidal, 1941); however, Pulgar Vidal insisted on a more detailed version, one that emphasized both the complexity of the Andean landscape and ILK (Zimmerer and Bell, 2013). He developed a model of the "Eight Natural Regions" of the Peruvian national territory (described above), conceived as series of stacked tiers, taking on the appearance of a layer cake.…”

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“…High-altitude crops like quinua, oca, and olluco may be cultivated in this zone, and pastoralism is also common (Pulgar Vidal, 1941: 155-156). Until recently, this model was used in territorial planning and included in national education curricula (Zimmerer and Bell, 2013).…”

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Narrating from landscape in Andean archaeology: The problem with thesuninatural region

Ramón

Bell

2022

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Archaeologists use the landscape to explain the past, often referring to traditional or indigenous knowledge to better understand that landscape. But how is this analogical process performed, and how is indigenous knowledge understood and recorded? This article examines Peruvian geographer Javier Pulgar Vidal’s concept of suni—a term with several definitions in Aymara and Quechua, but which was transformed by Pulgar Vidal into a “Natural Region,” in other words a meaningful portion of the landscape—as an entry point into this broader issue. Suni is important because it is a poorly defined part of a wider Andean landscape model supposedly based on indigenous knowledge and because it is commonly used by archaeologists to explain precolonial land use and landscapes. Through analysis of the creation and application of suni, we define major challenges faced by archaeologists when interpreting sites and materials in landscape perspective and present suggestions for moving forward.

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An early framework of national land use and geovisualization: Policy attributes and application of Pulgar Vidal's state-indigenous vision of Peru (1941–present)

Cited by 16 publications

References 61 publications

The “sowing of concrete”: Peri-urban smallholder perceptions of rural–urban land change in the Central Peruvian Andes

The “sowing of concrete”: Peri-urban smallholder perceptions of rural–urban land change in the Central Peruvian Andes

Vivid valleys, pallid peaks? Hypsometric variations and rural–urban land change in the Central Peruvian Andes

Narrating from landscape in Andean archaeology: The problem with thesuninatural region

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