Ethnobotany and conservation of biocultural diversity

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Ethnobotany and conservation of biocultural diversity

Carlson, Thomas J. S. (Added Author). Maffi, Luisa. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0893274534
ISBN: 9780893274535
Physical Description: 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Bronx, N.Y. : New York Botanical Garden Press, ©2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Maintaining and restoring biocultural diversity: the evolution of a role for ethnobiology / Luisa Maffi -- Ethnobotanical convergence, divergence, and change among the Hoti of the Venezuelan Guayana / Stanford Zent and Egleé López-Zent -- Amazonian Indians as ecological disturbance agents: the Hoti of the Sierra de Maigualida, Venezuelan Guayana / Egleé López-Zent and Stanford Zent -- Indigenous knowledge and conservation of the rain forest: ethobotany of the Barí of Venezuela / Manuel Lizarralde -- Ethnobotanical ground-truthing and forest diversity in the western Amazon / Glenn H. Shepard Jr., Douglas W. Yu, and Bruce W. Nelson -- Indigenous nomenclature, classification, and utilization of African rattans / Terry C.H. Sunderland.

Crafts and conservation: the ecological footprint of international markets on an African resource / A.B. Cunningham and S.K. Choge -- Effects of economic liberalization on Dao women's traditional knowledge, ecology, and trade of medicinal plants in northern Vietnam / Jennifer C. Sowerwine -- Medical ethnobotany and therapeutic uses of Croton lechleri Müell.-Arg. for human health / Thomas J.S. Carlson -- Ethnobiology and globalization: science and ethics at the turn of the century / Miguel N. Alexiades -- Weighing the proverbial "ounce of prevention" against the "pound of cure" in a biocultural context: a role for the precautionary principle in ethnobiological research / Kelly Bannister and Katherine Barrett.