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Ecological Sustainability for Non-timber Forest Products: Dynamics and Case Studies of Harvesting
1st Edition
Edited
By Charlie M. Shackleton, Ashok K. Pandey, Tamara Ticktin
June 08, 2018
There is growing knowledge about and appreciation of the importance of Non-timber Forest Products (NTFPs) to rural livelihoods in developing countries, and to a lesser extent, developed countries. However, there is also an assumption on the part of policy-makers that any harvesting of wild animal ...
Mushrooms in Forests and Woodlands: Resource Management, Values and Local Livelihoods
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony B. Cunningham, Xuefei Yang
January 20, 2016
Many mushrooms - or the 'fruits of fungi' - are extremely valuable, wild-gathered products which are utilised for both their medicinal properties and as food. In many of the world's tropical and temperate forests, they are the primary source of income for the people who live there. These forests...
Human Health and Forests: A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol J. Pierce Colfer
February 28, 2013
Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. One vital aspect of their lives, yet largely unexamined, is the challenge of protecting and enhancing the unique relationship between the health of forests and the health of people. This book, written for a broad audience, is...
Wild Product Governance: Finding Policies that Work for Non-Timber Forest Products
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah A. Laird, Rebecca J. McLain, Rachel Wynberg
June 01, 2012
Products from the wild, also known as non-timber forest products (NTFPs), are used as medicines, foods, spices, and a multitude of other purposes. They contribute substantially to rural livelihoods, generate revenue for companies and governments, and have a range of impacts on biodiversity ...
Plant Identification: Creating User-Friendly Field Guides for Biodiversity Management
1st Edition
By Anna Lawrence, William Hawthorne
June 01, 2006
An important prerequisite for successful conservation is a good understanding of what we seek to conserve. Nowhere is this more the case than in the fight to protect plant biodiversity, which is threatened by human activity in many regions worldwide. This book is written in the belief that tools ...
Plant Conservation: An Ecosystem Approach
1st Edition
By Alan Hamilton, Patrick Hamilton
February 01, 2006
In this, the latest in the People and Plants series, plant conservation is described in the context of livelihoods and development, and ways of balancing the conservation of plant diversity with the use of plants and the environment for human benefit are discussed. A central contention in this book...
Ethnobotany: A Methods Manual
1st Edition
By Gary J. Martin
January 01, 2004
Ethnobotany, the study of the classification, use and management of plants by people, draws on a range of disciplines, including natural and social sciences, to show how conservation of plants and of local knowledge about them can be achieved. Ethnobotany is critical to the growing importance of ...
Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge: Equitable Partnerships in Practice
1st Edition
By Sarah A. Laird
February 01, 2002
Biodiversity research and prospecting are long-standing activities taking place in a new legal and ethical environment. Following entry into force of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1993, and other recent policy developments, expectations and obligations for research and prospecting ...
Tapping the Green Market: Management and Certification of Non-timber Forest Products
1st Edition
By Patricia Shanley, Alan Robert Pierce, Sarah A. Laird, S. Abraham Guillen
December 01, 2001
There is a rapidly growing interest in, and demand for, non-timber forest products (NTFPs). They provide critical resources across the globe fulfilling nutritional, medicinal, financial and cultural needs. However, they have been largely overlooked in mainstream conservation and forestry politics. ...
Uncovering the Hidden Harvest: Valuation Methods for Woodland and Forest Resources
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce M. Campbell, Martin K. Luckert
December 01, 2001
Forests and woodlands provide an enormous range of goods and services to society, from timber and firewood to medicinal plants, watershed protection, destinations for tourists and sacred sites. Only when these are understood and valued can forests and their resources be properly managed and ...
Applied Ethnobotany: People, Wild Plant Use and Conservation
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony B. Cunningham
April 01, 2001
Its wise and sensitive approach to working with local people will be relevant in situations throughout the world.' ECOS 'The numerous diagrams, tables of data, information flow charts, fieldwork sketches etc. give a great vibrancy to the work... It deserves a wide readership.' TEG News Wild or ...
People, Plants and Protected Areas: A Guide to in Situ Management
1st Edition
By John Tuxill, Gary Paul Nabhan, with Elizabeth Drexler, Michael Hathaway
March 01, 2001
Conservation of plant resources is often focused on seed banks and botanical gardens. However, the two authors of this volume present a comprehensive conservation strategy that complements this ex-situ approach with practical guidance on in-situ management and conservation of plant resources. The ...