Applied ethnobotany : people, wild plant use and conservation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cunningham, A. B.
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Earthscan, 2001.
Series:	"People and plants" conservation manuals.
Subjects:	Wild plants, Edible. Medicinal plants. Applied ethnobotany. Plant conservation. Human-plant relationships. Plants, Useful. Ethnobotany. Plants Ethnobotany Plants, Medicinal Ethnobotanique appliquée. Plantes sauvages comestibles. Plantes médicinales. Plantes utiles. Plantes > Conservation. Relations homme-plante. Ethnobotanique. Plantes. SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany. Ethnobotanik Pflanzen Volkskunde Wildpflanzen Etnobotanie. Natuurbehoud. Etnobotânica. Plantas medicinais. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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.