Managing the wild : the stories of people and plants and tropical forests

Managing the wild : the stories of people and plants and tropical forests /

Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters's thirty-five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, "Local people know a lot about managing tropical...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peters, Charles M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [New York] : New Haven : New York Botanical Garden ; Yale University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Sustainable forestry > Tropics.
Sustainable forestry > Tropics > Management.
Community forestry > Tropics.
Forest management > Tropics.
GARDENING > Fruit.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
NATURE > Plants > Trees.
Community forestry
Forest management
Sustainable forestry
Tropics
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the challenge of sustainable forest use
  • The Ramón tree and the Maya
  • Mexican bark paper : commercialization of a pre-Hispanic technology
  • Camu-camu : fruits, floods, and vitamin C
  • Fruits from the Amazon floodplain
  • Forest fruits of Borneo
  • Homemade Dayak forests
  • Sawmills and sustainability in Papua New Guinea
  • Collaborative conservation in the Bwindi Impenetrable forest reserve
  • A renewable supply of carving wood
  • Caboclo forestry in the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive reserve
  • Measuring tree growth with Maya foresters
  • Managing agave, distilling mescal
  • Landscape dynamics in southwestern China
  • The world of rattan
  • Community forestry in Myanmar
  • Epilogue.

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