People and Plants International Conservation

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1. Human Health and Forests

   A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy

   Edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer

   Series: People and Plants International Conservation

   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...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Mushrooms in Forests and Woodlands

   Resource Management, Values and Local Livelihoods

   Edited by Anthony B. Cunningham, Xuefei Yang

   Series: People and Plants International Conservation

   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...

   Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge
3. Wild Product Governance

   Finding Policies that Work for Non-Timber Forest Products

   Edited by Sarah A. Laird, Rebecca J. McLain, Rachel P. Wynberg

   Series: People and Plants International Conservation

   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...

   Published May 25th 2010 by Routledge
4. Plant Identification

   Creating User-Friendly Field Guides for Biodiversity Management

   By Anna Lawrence, William Hawthorne

   Series: People and Plants International Conservation

   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...

   Published May 31st 2006 by Routledge
5. Plant Conservation

   An Ecosystem Approach

   By Alan Hamilton, Patrick Hamilton

   Series: People and Plants International Conservation

   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...

   Published January 31st 2006 by Routledge
6. Ethnobotany

   A Methods Manual

   By Gary J. Martin

   Series: People and Plants International Conservation

   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...

   Published December 31st 2003 by Routledge
7. Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge

   Equitable Partnerships in Practice

   By Sarah A. Laird

   Series: People and Plants International Conservation

   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...

   Published January 31st 2002 by Routledge
8. Tapping the Green Market

   Management and Certification of Non-timber Forest Products

   By Patricia Shanley, Alan Robert Pierce, Sarah A. Laird, S. Abraham Guillen

   Series: People and Plants International Conservation

   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....

   Published November 30th 2001 by Routledge
9. Uncovering the Hidden Harvest

   Valuation Methods for Woodland and Forest Resources

   Edited by Bruce M. Campbell, Martin K. Luckert

   Series: People and Plants International Conservation

   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...

   Published November 30th 2001 by Routledge
10. Applied Ethnobotany

    People, Wild Plant Use and Conservation

    Edited by Anthony B. Cunningham

    Series: People and Plants International Conservation

    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...

    Published March 31st 2001 by Routledge