Ethnobotanic Resources of Tropical Montane Forests. Indigenous Uses of Plants in the Cameroon Highland Ecoregion Emmanuel Neba Ndenecho

Mountain forests provide important ecological services, and essential products. This book focuses on the importance of mountain forests in Cameroon for the local people who depend most directly on them, and have often developed a wealth of indigenous knowledge on plants and sophisticated institutions for managing limited plant and animal resources. Such knowledge and institutions have often been threatened, or even destroyed, by centralization and globalization; yet there is increasing recognition that community-based institutions are the best adapted to ensuring that mountain forests continue to supply their diverse goods and services to both mountain and other people over the long-term. The book provides a useful combination of case studies on ethnobotanic analysis and cultural values of plants, community-based ecological planning for protected area management and eco-cultural tourism development. It provides an unusually useful combination of overviews and synthesis of theory and... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Ethnobotanic Resources of Tropical Montane Forests. Indigenous Uses of Plants in the Cameroon Highland Ecoregion (Emmanuel Neba Ndenecho)