Screen LibraryManaging the wild : stories of people and plants and tropical forests /
Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peterss thirtyfive 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 forests...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, CT : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peterss thirtyfive 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 forests, and they are much better at it than we are." With the aim of showing policy makers, conservation advocates, and others the potential benefits of giving communities a more prominent conservation role, Peters offers readers fascinating backstories of positive forest interactions. He provides examples s |
| Item Description: | A co-publication of The New York Botanical Garden Press and Yale University Press. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780300229332 030022933X |
| Index Number: | SD247 |
| CLC: | S75 |
| Call Number: | S75/P481 |
| Contents: | 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 wor |