Research Catalog

Title

Managing the wild : stories of people and plants and tropical forests / Charles M. Peters.

Author

Peters, Charles M.

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

New York Botanical Garden.

Description

xiv, 184 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm

Summary

Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peterss thirty-five 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 such as the Kenyah Dayak people of Indonesia, who manage subsistence orchards and are perhaps the worlds most gifted foresters, and communities in Mexico that sustainably harvest agave for mescal and demonstrate a nearheroic commitment to good practices. No forest is pristine, and Peterss work shows that communities have been doing skillful, subtle forest management throughout the tropics for several hundred years.

Subject

• Sustainable forestry > Tropics
• Sustainable forestry > Tropics > Management
• Community forestry > Tropics
• Forest management > Tropics
• Community forestry
• Forest management
• Sustainable forestry
• Tropics

Note

• "A co-publication of The New York Botanical Garden Press and Yale University Press."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index.

Contents

Introduction : the challenge of sustainable forest use -- 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 world of rattan -- Community forestry in Myanmar -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFD 19-1567

ISBN

• 9780300229332
• 030022933X

LCCN

2017943418

OCLC

1002129749

Author

Peters, Charles M., author.

Title

Managing the wild : stories of people and plants and tropical forests / Charles M. Peters.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: YALE UNIVERSITY. CO-PUB. WITH NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN.

Added Author

New York Botanical Garden.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-1567