Managing the Wild : Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests.

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Main Author: Peters, Charles M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Maps; INTRODUCTION The Challenge of Sustainable Forest Use; ONE The Ramón Tree and the Maya; TWO Mexican Bark Paper Commercialization of a Pre-Hispanic Technology; THREE Camu-camu Fruits, Floods, and Vitamin C; FOUR Fruits from the Amazon Floodplain; FIVE Forest Fruits of Borneo; SIX Homemade Dayak Forests; SEVEN Sawmills and Sustainability in Papua New Guinea; EIGHT Collaborative Conservation in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Reserve; NINE A Renewable Supply of Carving Wood.
  • TEN Caboclo Forestry in the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive ReserveELEVEN Measuring Tree Growth with Maya Foresters; TWELVE Managing Agave, Distilling Mescal; THIRTEEN Landscape Dynamics in Southwestern China; FOURTEEN The World of Rattan; FIFTEEN Community Forestry in Myanmar; Epilogue; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index.