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The bioeconomy and non-timber forest products book cover

1st Edition

The bioeconomy and non-timber forest products

Edited By Carsten Smith-Hall, James Chamberlain Copyright 2023
298 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies. While the plants and fungi that produce non-timber forest products are essential to the sustainability of forest ecosystems, peoples' food and livelihood security and sovereignty, and thus the bioeconomy, are often absent from bioeconomic... Read more

Introduction

  1. Why focus on non-timber forest products in the bioeconomy?

    2. Carsten Smith-Hall and James Chamberlain

    Part 1: Where are we – the starting point

  2. Non-timber forest products and the European bioeconomy: status and transition pathways

    3. Marko Lovrić, Sven Mutke, Elena Górriz Mifsud, Inazio Martinez de Arano, Davide Matteo Pettenella, Enrico Vidale, Irina Prokofieva, and Robert Mavsar

  3. Non-timber forest products in Canada: their role in bioeconomy

    4. Sen Wang, Harry Nelson, Shashi Kant, and Andrea Lyall

  4. Commercial fungi, indigenous communities, and the bioeconomy transition in Southwest China

    5. Jun He

  5. The potential for using non-timber forest products to develop the Brazilian bioeconomy

    6. Sandra Regina Afonso, Joberto Veloso de Freitas, Janaína D.A.S. Diniz, and Maria de Fátima de Brito Lima

  6. Informal markets, marginal populations, and the bioeconomy – the success story of açaí (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) in the Guiana Shield

    7. Janaína D.A.S. Diniz and Nathalie Cialdella

  7. Lessons for the forest-based bioeconomy from non-timber forest products in Mexico

    8. María Teresa Pulido Silva and Daniela Ortega Meza

  8. Non-timber forest products and bioeconomy transitioning in Cameroon: potentials and challenges

    9. Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Gadinga Walter Forje, and Nyong Princely Awazi

    Part 2: How do we move on – specific examples

  9. An operational transition pathway to a forest-based bioeconomy: lessons from the wild-simulated ginseng industry

    10. Mi Sun Park and Hansol Lee

  10. The potential of non-timber forest products to contribute to the bioeconomy transition: the example of baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) in Malawi

    11. Dietrich Darr, William K. Dumenu, Jens Gebauer, Victor Kasulo, Matthias Kleinke, Kathrin Meinhold, Chimuleke Munthali, and Florian Wichern

  11. A framework supporting the transition to a forest-based bioeconomy and its application to Nepal

    12. Meenakshi Piplani and Carsten Smith-Hall

  12. A national-level approach to integrating non-timber forest products and the bioeconomy: the example of Argentina

    13. Sandra Sharry, Patricia Boeri, and Natalia Raffaeli

    Part 3: Helpful tools and technologies – tricks of the trade

  13. Forest management for sustainable sourcing of non-timber forest products in a bioeconomy

    14. Michelle Balasso, Sven Mutke, Jonathan P. Sheppard, and James Chamberlain

  14. Mediterranean stone pine production systems and the emerging bioeconomy in Chile

    15. Verónica Loewe-Muñoz and Claudia Delard

  15. Participatory GIS applications for wild berry utilisation and the Finnish bioeconomy

    16. Rainer Peltola, Jari Miina, and Mikko Kurttila

    Conclusion

  16. The keys to unlocking the bioeconomy with non-timber forest products

James Chamberlain and Carsten Smith-Hall

Biography

Carsten Smith-Hall is a Professor in Forest and People in Developing Countries in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He co-coordinates the Global Task Force on Unlocking the Bioeconomy and Non-Timber Forest Products and serves the World Conservation Union's Medicinal Plant Specialist Group.

James L. Chamberlain is a Research Forest Products Technologist for the US Forest Service and an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Sustainable Biomaterials at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. He co-coordinates the Global Task Force on Unlocking the Bioeconomy and Non-Timber Forest Products.

"This timely and seminal investigation enters almost untouched academic　territory by combining scholarship on the bioeconomy and non-timber forest products, moving beyond the dominating Western and biotech focus. The book is of high value to students, researchers, and policy practitioners in bioeconomy, forestry, development, livelihoods & poverty around the globe."

Lukas Giessen, Professor of Tropical & International Forestry, TU Dresden and Editor-in-Chief of Forest Policy and Economics

"Forests play a critical role in supporting the transition from fossil fuels towards a "green" bioeconomy to tackle the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and land degradation. This book analyses the importance of non-timber forest products in the bioeconomy on five continents, providing a solid scientific basis for insightful recommendations on sustainable management and increased benefits to communities living in and near forests."

John Parrotta, President, International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)

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