Research Catalog

Title

Hunting for sustainability in tropical forests / edited by John G. Robinson, Elizabeth L. Bennett.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Robinson, John G.
• Bennett, Elizabeth L.

Description

xxi, 582 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Biology and resource management series

Uniform Title

Biology and resource management in the tropics series.

Subjects

• Hunting
• Wildlife management
• Hunting and gathering societies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 525-571) and index.

Contents

Hunting for the snark / Elizabeth L. Bennett and John G. Robinson -- Carrying capacity limits to sustainable hunting in tropical forests / John G. Robinson and Elizabeth L. Bennett -- Evaluating the impact and sustainability of subsistence hunting at multiple Amazonian forest sites / Carlos A. Peres -- The sustainability of current hunting practices by the Huaorani / Patricio Mena V. ... [et al.] -- Sustainability of Aché hunting in the Mbaracayu Reserve, Paraguay / Kim Hill and Jonathan Padwe -- Impact and sustainability of indigenous hunting in the Ituri Forest, Congo-Zaire : a comparison of unhunted and hunted duiker populations / John A. Hart -- Threatened mammals, subsistence harvesting, and high human population densities : a recipe for disaster? / Clare D. Fitzgibbon, Hezron Mogaka, and John H. Fanshawe -- Hunted animals in Bioko Island, West Africa : sustainability and future / John E. Fa -- Differential vulnerability of large birds and mammals to hunting in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the outlook for the future / Timothy G. O'Brien and Margaret F. Kinnaird -- The impact of traditional subsistence hunting and trapping on prey populations : data from Wana horticulturalists of Upland Central Sulawesi, Indonesia / Michael Alvard -- A pound of flesh : social change and modernization as factors in hunting sustainability among neotropical indigenous societies / Allyn Maclean Stearman -- Wildlife conservation and game harvest by Maya hunters in Quintana Roo, Mexico / Jeffrey P. Jorgenson -- The sustainability of subsistence hunting by the Sirionó Indians of Bolivia / Wendy R. Townsend -- Cable snares and nets in the Central African republic / Andrew Noss -- Saving Borneo's bacon : the sustainability of hunting in Sarawak and Sabah / Elizabeth L. Bennett, Adrian J. Nyaoi, and Jephte Sompud -- Agta hunting and sustainability of resource use in Northeastern Luzon, Philippines / P. Bion Griffin and Marcus B. Griffin -- Hunting for an answer : is local hunting compatible with large mammal conservation in India? / M.D. Madhusudan and K. Ullas Karanth -- Enhancing the sustainability of duiker hunting through community participation and controlled access in the Lobéké region of Southeastern Cameroon / Cheryl Fimbel, Bryan Curran, and Leonard Usongo -- Traditional management of hunting in a Xavante community in Central Brazil : the search for sustainability / Frans J. Leeuwenberg and John G. Robinson -- Community-based comanagement of wildlife in the Peruvian Amazon / Richard Bodmer and Pablo E. Puertas -- Wildlife use in Northern Congo : hunting in a commercial logging concession / Philippe Auzel and David S. Wilkie -- Socioeconomics and the sustainability of hunting in the forests of Northern Congo (Brazzaville) / Heather E. Eves and Richard G. Ruggiero -- Impact of subsistence hunting in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and conservation options / Rob J. Lee -- The trade in wildlife in North Sulawesi, Indonesia / Lynn Clayton and E.J. Milner-Gulland -- Hunting for sustainability : the start of a synthesis / Elizabeth L. Bennett and John G. Robinson -- Appendix : Calculating maximum sustainable harvests and percentage offtakes / John G. Robinson.

Call Number

JSF 00-571

ISBN

• 0231109768 (alk. paper)
• 0231109776 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99020178

OCLC

40979839

Title

Hunting for sustainability in tropical forests / edited by John G. Robinson, Elizabeth L. Bennett.

Imprint

New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.

Series

Biology and resource management series

Biology and resource management in the tropics series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 525-571) and index.

Added Author

Robinson, John G.

Bennett, Elizabeth L.

Research Call Number

JSF 00-571