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Handbook 4
... readers as well as others concerned with local culture and forest management in the Pacific Islands. The first part of the book will introduce the Kwara’ae forest environment and ... perspective of their own culture and environment, unlike most anthropological and ethnobotanical studies of Pacific Islands culture, which take their starting point in Western cultural categories. The Kwara’ae version ...
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Multimedia Center
... ://www.crcpress.com/. Clarke, W.C. and R.R. Thaman. 1993. Agroforestry in the Pacific Islands: Systems for Sustainability. Tokyo, United Nations University Press. Based on extensive field observations and ... evolved over thousands of years in the Pacific Islands, and provide detailed data on one hundred of the most useful trees in the Pacific. Contact: United Nations University Press, The United ...
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People and Plants Online - Current Newsletter
... ). As a result, forest reserves and conservation areas proclaimed over 50 years ago have become "islands" in a sea of rural farmland, all that remains of much larger forests which existed ... Malawi, Santalum (sandalwood) in India or Intsia bijuga and Cordia subcordata in Vanuatu and other Pacific islands. This video illustrates the history of the woodcarving trade in Kenya and the current challenges ...
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books
... countries, including North America, Africa, Australia, South and South East Asia, Europe, and the Pacific and Atlantic islands. The book contains an invaluable list of invasive species with their countries of origin ...
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Ethnobotanical Portraits
... and distributed by the Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific. Contact: Linda Crowl, Publications Fellow, Institute of Pacific Studies,University of the South Pacific, P.O. Box 1168, Suva ... as galip in Papua New Guinea, ngali in the Solomon Islands and nangai in Vanuatu. Among edible nut trees of the South Pacific, the genus Canarium is considered to be of particular ...
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Keywords, Acronyms, and Contributors
... Kew SBMA: Subic Bay Municipal Authority SEB: Society of Economic Botany SIDT: Solomon Islands Development Trust SSC: Species Survival Commission STRI: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute SUAN: ... Switzerland. Contact: Christin Kocher Schmid, APFT – Avenir des Peuples des Forets Tropicales, Pacific Coordinator, Anthropology, Eliot College, The University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury CT2 7NS, ...
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