Keywords:
Wild plants, Edible.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849776073
Series Statement:
People and Plants International Conservation Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=585483
DDC:
333.95317
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- The People and Plants Initiative by Alan Hamilton -- Preface -- Introduction -- People and Plants partners -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Conservation and context: different times, different views -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- Necessary equipment -- Measuring diameter, height and bark thickness -- Methods for ageing plants -- Harvesting impacts -- 5. Opportunities and constraints on sustainable harvest: plant populations -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction.
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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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- Looking outward -- Looking inward -- examining innovative local approaches -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Further reading -- References -- Index.
