CONFERENCE REPORT Local Heritage in the Changing Tropics: Innovative Strategies for Natural Resource Management and Control YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven CT, February 10-12, 1995

In recent years, international concern has mounted in response to the destruction of cultures and associated natural resource use systems at the economic frontier between the global economy and traditional societies. Local peoples have forged new alliances amongst themselves and with global partners to assert customary resource control. Constructive alternatives to the victimization of market new-comers as well as the amelioration of long-standing inequities faced by 'traditional' resource users are being developed in diverse settings by indigenous groups, labor organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), research institutions, governments, and other entities.