Market integration produces mixed effects on well-being and conservation in indigenous populations. There are two basic perspectives on the relationship between market integration and indigenous health. The first is that integration into a market economy brings plentiful benefits such as education, and social services that improve health. The second focuses on detriments market integration causes on health by focusing on the change it brings to the environment that these populations have adapted to in order to maintain good health and nutrition.
Research on the impact of market integration on the health of indigenous populations is important because health is a standard and classic indicator of human welfare and robustness of the society (Godoy).
During the extent of this course, I will be working continuously on the specific case sample of the Ecuador Project. This will consist of data analysis examining the health effects market integration has brought to seven indigenous populations in Amazonian Ecuador. Furthermore, this course will act as an independent study on the effects of market integration on indigenous health specifically through human growth, nutritional status, and development as a result of changes MI brings to traditional ecological knowledge of indigenous peoples, and their use of renewable natural resources.
Books:
Wien; Berlin: Lit 2007:
Fossil fuels, oil companies, and indigenous peoples: strategies of multinational oil companies, states, and ethnic minorities; impact on environment, livelihoods and cultural change
McMichael, Phillip 2009:
Development and social change: a global perspective
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