http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
1 online resource ( xviii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps, 1 portrait.
The People and Plants Initiative / Alan Hamilton -- People and Plants partners -- 1. Conservation and context: different times, different views. Historical context. Management myths and effective partnerships. Vegetation and change: spatial and time scales. Human influence: landscapes and species -- 2. Local inventories, values and quantities of harvested resources. Local priorities: vegetation types, resource categories and species. Choosing the right methods. Before starting: attitudes, time spans and cross-checking. Taxonomy with all your senses: the use of field characters. Potentials and pitfalls: combining skills in inventories. Local to international units -- 3. Settlement, commercialization and change. Local markets: order within 'chaos'. Location and mapping of marketplaces. Characteristics of markets. Market schedules. Marketing chains and types of seller. Inventory and frequency of plants on sale -- 4. Measuring individual plants and assessing harvesting impacts. Necessary equipment. Measuring diameter, height and bark thickness. Methods for ageing plants. Harvesting impacts -- 5. Opportunities and constraints on sustainable harvest: plant populations. Plant populations and practical constraints: selecting species. Bridging gaps in knowledge: life forms, plant architecture and reproductive strategies. Plant life forms. Costs and complexity: inventory, management and monitoring. Yields: supply versus demand. Population modelling using transition matrices -- 6. Landscapes and ecosystems: patterns, processes and plant use. Tools for the 'big picture': aerial photographs and satellite images. Distribution, degree of threat and disturbance. Local knowledge, landscapes and mapping -- 7. Conservation behaviour, boundaries and beliefs. Conservation and the ingredients for common property management. Ecological factors, land use, tenure and territoriality. Property rights: land and resource tenure. Boundaries and tenure, meaning and mapping. Ritual, religion and resource control. Who are the stakeholders? -- 8. Striving for balance: looking outward and inward. Looking outward. Looking inward; examining innovative local approaches.
"WWF, UNESCO, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew" on title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"People and plants" conservation manuals