Fausto Sarmiento
Biographic Data
| ID | 476181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fausto Sarmiento |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fausto |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarmiento |
| SIGNATURE | SARMIENTO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0501-6020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic heterogeneity in considering residents’ empowerment from ecotourism
The purpose of this paper is to challenge the notion that residents experience empowerment from ecotourism to the same degree in central Ecuador. The recently amended Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale was employed to assess potential differences in six empowerment dimensions (i.e. economic, psychological, sociological, cultural, political, and environmental) considering a community’s socio-demographic and socioeconomic variables (i.e. ag…
Intention to engage in ecotourism development: Validation and extension of the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (Version 2.1)
This work, based on the conceptual work by Scheyvens and van der Watt (2021), amends the original Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (RETS) by including three new dimensions: economic empowerment, cultural empowerment, and environmental empowerment. In so doing, the modified scale is applied in a region of Ecuador not known for its ecotourism opportunities, to determine how residents’ (n = 500) perceived empowerment factors into their int…
Macají Lourdes: El Registro arqueológico del primer sitio datado Puruhá en los Andes del Ecuador (Riobamba, provincia de Chimborazo)
The article presents the first results of the research carried out at the Macají Lourdes site (Riobamba, Chimborazo), discussing the characteristics of the archaeological record, cultural materiality, chronological data and the post-depositional processes that affected it. The evidence recovered through an archaeological prospection, including surface surveys, shovel tests pits, and stratigraphic excavation of four 3m x 1m units, revealed the pre…
In Memoriam: Prof Dr Jack D. Ives
Crowdsourced text analysis to characterize the U.S. National Parks based on cultural ecosystem services
Edwin Bernbaum, Sacred Mountains of the World
Edwin Bernbaum, Sacred Mountains of the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed, 2022), 411 pp., $29.99 (pbk), ISBN:9781108-8334742
Montology: A Transformative Frame for the Future of Education About Mountains
Montology, the transdisciplinary science of mountains, applied to education incorporates several pedagogical approaches that could be used to energize the transformative change from sustainable to regenerative development from different perspectives. We include pedagogies with learning outcomes that apply 9 different educational methodologies, and we revisit them in the context of montology to focus on integrative, holistic mountainscapes as subj…
Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
Applied Montology Using Critical Biogeography in the Andes
More than most other landforms, mountains have been at the vanguard of geographical inquiry. Whether promontories, cultural works on slopes, or even metaphorical/spiritual heights, mountain research informs current narratives of global environmental chang
Obituary for a Mountain Champion: Lawrence Hamilton, 1925–2016
Obituary
Mountain Geography: Physical and Human Dimensions
Bolivia en un Mundo 4 Grados Más Caliente: Escenarios Sociopolíticos Ante el Cambio Climático para los Años 2030 y 2060 en el Altiplano Norte [Bolivia in a World Four Degrees Warmer: Sociopolitical Sc…
Bolivia en un Mundo 4 Grados Más Caliente: Escenarios Sociopolíticos Ante
Where Do Mountain Geographers Publish: Disciplinary Trends and Career Development Choices
Geographers face choices in publishing research in outlets that affiliate them with a discipline that gauges the overall development of their academic standing by the approval of the peer-review process. It is not only actual publication that counts but also when and where an article is published. Well-published geographers often find themselves at the fuzzy boundaries of traditional disciplinary work, because often the nature of the profession t…
Otavaleños and Cotacacheños: Local Perceptions of Sacred Sites for Farmscape Conservation in Highland Ecuador
Indigenous communities around the world face pressures from ecotourism practices and conservation. Otavalo, Ecuador, is an example of how local spiritual values can add to the conservation efforts of ecotourism. The Imbakucha watershed includes mountain landscapes with natural and cultural values of numerous indigenous communities where most residents associate their livelihood with iconic, sacred, natural features. Because this region has been c…
Obituary for a Mountain Man
The Lapwing in Andean Ethnoecology: Proxy for Landscape Transformation
The Andean lapwing (Vanellus resplendens Tschudi) prompts rethinking of ethnoecology in neotropical cloud forests and páramos and challenges notions about conservation in mountain protected areas. Using archaeological, historical, and current evidence, I argue that the role of humans in shaping viable high‐mountain bird populations is an important factor in the conservation priorities of tropandean landscapes, particularly in the mountains. The p…
Páramos de Costa Rica
Key Issues for Mountain Areas
Mountain people and mountain environments are particularly threatened by global environmental change and economic and political forces. A disproportionate number of conflicts occur in mountain regions, and their inhabitants include many of the poorest and most vulnerable in the world
Selling the Public on Sustainable Watershed Conservation
The city of Quito, Ecuador, began working in 2000 to protect the ecologically fragile watershed area for its drinking water. In order to protect the Papallacta watershed, the independent Fund for the Conservation of Watersheds (FONAG) was launched to finance and manage economically sound sustainability projects in the area. FONAG is funded in part through start up grants from several organisations and a 1 per cent fee on all Quito water bills, bu…
Andean Cloud Forest Tree Lines: Naturalness, Agriculture and the Human Dimension
We challenge the paradigm of natural tree line formation in the equatorial Andes with an alternate view that incorporates the human dimension. We present both direct and indirect evidence of anthropogenic influences on cloud forest tree line location; these human influences should be incorporated in definitions of Andean tree lines as (1) the extensification of grassland for grazing and potato cultivation for the upper limit, and (2) the intensif…
Gerardo Budowski: A Beacon to Conservation of Tropical Mountains
In Latin America the name Gerardo Budowski is associated with most conservation initiatives. Don Gerardo, as peers and students know him, has been a driving force in establishing a collective consciousness about nature conservation to promote sustainable development. Focusing on the mountains of tropical America, he has helped to define priorities for mountain studies and the application of conservation science to tropical mountain ecosystems. Ge…
Anthropogenic Change in the Landscapes of Highland Ecuador
The anthropogenic nature of Andean ecosystems is discussed in the framework of tree‐line dynamics in selected sites in Ecuador. Indicators of human impact are evidence of the need for a scientific understanding of neotropical mountains that is better in tune with the special conditions of tropical Andean environments. Tropandean systems are neither tropical ecosystems nor midlatitude regions, and lessons from ecologically damaging activities in t…
Les enjeux de la recherche sur les montagnes en matière de terminologie et de connaissances: Application à l'espace andin
L'histoire de la progressive émergence d'un savoir scientifique sur la montagne montre qu'il a parfois emprunté à la terminologie des savoirs locaux, mais qu'il a rarement été capable de prendre en compte les singularités des milieux et des populations locales. L'influence des modèles dominants d'interprétation, souvent élaborés dans les contextes européens et nord-américains, a largement occulté les caractéristiques locales et certaines différen…
Breaking Mountain Paradigms: Ecological Effects on Human Impacts in Man-aged Tropandean Landscapes
The rate at which deforestation of montane cloud forests of the Tropical Andes is documented, and the extent of different productive land uses in those areas, make it difficult to forecast appropriate conservation scenarios for countries that occupy the crescent of the Northern Andes, abode of one of the richest biological and cultural diversity of the world. Because of ancient human impacts on soils and wildlife, as well as current intensive lan…
Landscape Regeneration by Seeds and Successional Pathways to Restore Fragile Tropandean Slopelands
Fausto O. Sarmiento, Landscape Regeneration by Seeds and Successional Pathways to Restore Fragile Tropandean Slopelands, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 17, No. 3, The United Nations University. Managing Fragile Ecosystems in the Andes (Aug., 1997), pp. 239-252
Anthropogenic Change in the Landscapes of Highland Ecuador
The anthropogenic nature of Andean ecosystems is discussed in the framework of tree‐line dynamics in selected sites in Ecuador. Indicators of human impact are evidence of the need for a scientific understanding of neotropical mountains that is better in tune with the special conditions of tropical Andean environments. Tropandean systems are neither tropical ecosystems nor midlatitude regions, and lessons from ecologically damaging activities in t…
Breaking Mountain Paradigms: Ecological Effects on Human Impacts in Man-aged Tropandean Landscapes
The rate at which deforestation of montane cloud forests of the Tropical Andes is documented, and the extent of different productive land uses in those areas, make it difficult to forecast appropriate conservation scenarios for countries that occupy the crescent of the Northern Andes, abode of one of the richest biological and cultural diversity of the world. Because of ancient human impacts on soils and wildlife, as well as current intensive lan…
Applied Montology Using Critical Biogeography in the Andes
More than most other landforms, mountains have been at the vanguard of geographical inquiry. Whether promontories, cultural works on slopes, or even metaphorical/spiritual heights, mountain research informs current narratives of global environmental chang
Selling the Public on Sustainable Watershed Conservation
The city of Quito, Ecuador, began working in 2000 to protect the ecologically fragile watershed area for its drinking water. In order to protect the Papallacta watershed, the independent Fund for the Conservation of Watersheds (FONAG) was launched to finance and manage economically sound sustainability projects in the area. FONAG is funded in part through start up grants from several organisations and a 1 per cent fee on all Quito water bills, bu…
The Lapwing in Andean Ethnoecology: Proxy for Landscape Transformation
The Andean lapwing (Vanellus resplendens Tschudi) prompts rethinking of ethnoecology in neotropical cloud forests and páramos and challenges notions about conservation in mountain protected areas. Using archaeological, historical, and current evidence, I argue that the role of humans in shaping viable high‐mountain bird populations is an important factor in the conservation priorities of tropandean landscapes, particularly in the mountains. The p…
Macají Lourdes: El Registro arqueológico del primer sitio datado Puruhá en los Andes del Ecuador (Riobamba, provincia de Chimborazo)
The article presents the first results of the research carried out at the Macají Lourdes site (Riobamba, Chimborazo), discussing the characteristics of the archaeological record, cultural materiality, chronological data and the post-depositional processes that affected it. The evidence recovered through an archaeological prospection, including surface surveys, shovel tests pits, and stratigraphic excavation of four 3m x 1m units, revealed the pre…
Les enjeux de la recherche sur les montagnes en matière de terminologie et de connaissances: Application à l'espace andin
L'histoire de la progressive émergence d'un savoir scientifique sur la montagne montre qu'il a parfois emprunté à la terminologie des savoirs locaux, mais qu'il a rarement été capable de prendre en compte les singularités des milieux et des populations locales. L'influence des modèles dominants d'interprétation, souvent élaborés dans les contextes européens et nord-américains, a largement occulté les caractéristiques locales et certaines différen…
Landscape Regeneration by Seeds and Successional Pathways to Restore Fragile Tropandean Slopelands
Fausto O. Sarmiento, Landscape Regeneration by Seeds and Successional Pathways to Restore Fragile Tropandean Slopelands, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 17, No. 3, The United Nations University. Managing Fragile Ecosystems in the Andes (Aug., 1997), pp. 239-252
Breaking Mountain Paradigms: Ecological Effects on Human Impacts in Man-aged Tropandean Landscapes
The rate at which deforestation of montane cloud forests of the Tropical Andes is documented, and the extent of different productive land uses in those areas, make it difficult to forecast appropriate conservation scenarios for countries that occupy the crescent of the Northern Andes, abode of one of the richest biological and cultural diversity of the world. Because of ancient human impacts on soils and wildlife, as well as current intensive lan…
Les enjeux de la recherche sur les montagnes en matière de terminologie et de connaissances: Application à l'espace andin
L'histoire de la progressive émergence d'un savoir scientifique sur la montagne montre qu'il a parfois emprunté à la terminologie des savoirs locaux, mais qu'il a rarement été capable de prendre en compte les singularités des milieux et des populations locales. L'influence des modèles dominants d'interprétation, souvent élaborés dans les contextes européens et nord-américains, a largement occulté les caractéristiques locales et certaines différen…
Andean Cloud Forest Tree Lines: Naturalness, Agriculture and the Human Dimension
We challenge the paradigm of natural tree line formation in the equatorial Andes with an alternate view that incorporates the human dimension. We present both direct and indirect evidence of anthropogenic influences on cloud forest tree line location; these human influences should be incorporated in definitions of Andean tree lines as (1) the extensification of grassland for grazing and potato cultivation for the upper limit, and (2) the intensif…
Gerardo Budowski: A Beacon to Conservation of Tropical Mountains
In Latin America the name Gerardo Budowski is associated with most conservation initiatives. Don Gerardo, as peers and students know him, has been a driving force in establishing a collective consciousness about nature conservation to promote sustainable development. Focusing on the mountains of tropical America, he has helped to define priorities for mountain studies and the application of conservation science to tropical mountain ecosystems. Ge…
Anthropogenic Change in the Landscapes of Highland Ecuador
The anthropogenic nature of Andean ecosystems is discussed in the framework of tree‐line dynamics in selected sites in Ecuador. Indicators of human impact are evidence of the need for a scientific understanding of neotropical mountains that is better in tune with the special conditions of tropical Andean environments. Tropandean systems are neither tropical ecosystems nor midlatitude regions, and lessons from ecologically damaging activities in t…
Selling the Public on Sustainable Watershed Conservation
The city of Quito, Ecuador, began working in 2000 to protect the ecologically fragile watershed area for its drinking water. In order to protect the Papallacta watershed, the independent Fund for the Conservation of Watersheds (FONAG) was launched to finance and manage economically sound sustainability projects in the area. FONAG is funded in part through start up grants from several organisations and a 1 per cent fee on all Quito water bills, bu…
Key Issues for Mountain Areas
Mountain people and mountain environments are particularly threatened by global environmental change and economic and political forces. A disproportionate number of conflicts occur in mountain regions, and their inhabitants include many of the poorest and most vulnerable in the world
Páramos de Costa Rica
Obituary for a Mountain Man
The Lapwing in Andean Ethnoecology: Proxy for Landscape Transformation
The Andean lapwing (Vanellus resplendens Tschudi) prompts rethinking of ethnoecology in neotropical cloud forests and páramos and challenges notions about conservation in mountain protected areas. Using archaeological, historical, and current evidence, I argue that the role of humans in shaping viable high‐mountain bird populations is an important factor in the conservation priorities of tropandean landscapes, particularly in the mountains. The p…
Where Do Mountain Geographers Publish: Disciplinary Trends and Career Development Choices
Geographers face choices in publishing research in outlets that affiliate them with a discipline that gauges the overall development of their academic standing by the approval of the peer-review process. It is not only actual publication that counts but also when and where an article is published. Well-published geographers often find themselves at the fuzzy boundaries of traditional disciplinary work, because often the nature of the profession t…
Otavaleños and Cotacacheños: Local Perceptions of Sacred Sites for Farmscape Conservation in Highland Ecuador
Indigenous communities around the world face pressures from ecotourism practices and conservation. Otavalo, Ecuador, is an example of how local spiritual values can add to the conservation efforts of ecotourism. The Imbakucha watershed includes mountain landscapes with natural and cultural values of numerous indigenous communities where most residents associate their livelihood with iconic, sacred, natural features. Because this region has been c…
Mountain Geography: Physical and Human Dimensions
Bolivia en un Mundo 4 Grados Más Caliente: Escenarios Sociopolíticos Ante el Cambio Climático para los Años 2030 y 2060 en el Altiplano Norte [Bolivia in a World Four Degrees Warmer: Sociopolitical Sc…
Bolivia en un Mundo 4 Grados Más Caliente: Escenarios Sociopolíticos Ante
Obituary for a Mountain Champion: Lawrence Hamilton, 1925–2016
Obituary
Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
Applied Montology Using Critical Biogeography in the Andes
More than most other landforms, mountains have been at the vanguard of geographical inquiry. Whether promontories, cultural works on slopes, or even metaphorical/spiritual heights, mountain research informs current narratives of global environmental chang
Montology: A Transformative Frame for the Future of Education About Mountains
Montology, the transdisciplinary science of mountains, applied to education incorporates several pedagogical approaches that could be used to energize the transformative change from sustainable to regenerative development from different perspectives. We include pedagogies with learning outcomes that apply 9 different educational methodologies, and we revisit them in the context of montology to focus on integrative, holistic mountainscapes as subj…
Crowdsourced text analysis to characterize the U.S. National Parks based on cultural ecosystem services
Edwin Bernbaum, Sacred Mountains of the World
Edwin Bernbaum, Sacred Mountains of the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed, 2022), 411 pp., $29.99 (pbk), ISBN:9781108-8334742
In Memoriam: Prof Dr Jack D. Ives
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic heterogeneity in considering residents’ empowerment from ecotourism
The purpose of this paper is to challenge the notion that residents experience empowerment from ecotourism to the same degree in central Ecuador. The recently amended Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale was employed to assess potential differences in six empowerment dimensions (i.e. economic, psychological, sociological, cultural, political, and environmental) considering a community’s socio-demographic and socioeconomic variables (i.e. ag…
Intention to engage in ecotourism development: Validation and extension of the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (Version 2.1)
This work, based on the conceptual work by Scheyvens and van der Watt (2021), amends the original Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (RETS) by including three new dimensions: economic empowerment, cultural empowerment, and environmental empowerment. In so doing, the modified scale is applied in a region of Ecuador not known for its ecotourism opportunities, to determine how residents’ (n = 500) perceived empowerment factors into their int…
Macají Lourdes: El Registro arqueológico del primer sitio datado Puruhá en los Andes del Ecuador (Riobamba, provincia de Chimborazo)
The article presents the first results of the research carried out at the Macají Lourdes site (Riobamba, Chimborazo), discussing the characteristics of the archaeological record, cultural materiality, chronological data and the post-depositional processes that affected it. The evidence recovered through an archaeological prospection, including surface surveys, shovel tests pits, and stratigraphic excavation of four 3m x 1m units, revealed the pre…
Geography (24 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (12 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Tourism (4 works)