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| The 'People and Plants' Initiative | |
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| International Panel of Advisers | |
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| Internal Panel of Advisers | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Data collection and hypothesis testing | |
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| Choosing an approach | |
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| Six disciplines which contribute to an ethnobotanical study | |
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| Rapid ethnobotanical appraisal | |
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| Planning a long-term project | |
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| Describing the field site | |
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| Ethnobotanical data | |
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| Visual aids | |
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| The law of diminishing returns | |
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| Hypothesis testing and theory | |
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| Botany | |
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| Collecting and identifying plants | |
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| Preparing an ethnobotanical reference collection | |
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| Herbaria and the curation of plant specimens | |
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| Judging the completeness of a plant survey | |
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| Ethnopharmacology and related fields | |
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| Proceeding with a phytochemical analysis | |
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| Screening | |
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| Collecting plants for phytochemical analysis | |
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| The ethics of searching for new plant products | |
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| Bringing phytochemistry back home | |
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| Anthropology | |
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| Talking with local people | |
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| Searching for ethnobotanical information in folklore | |
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| Surveys and analytical tools | |
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| Ecology | |
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| Describing microenvironments and quantifying their plant resources | |
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| Qualitative approaches | |
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| Bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative approaches | |
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| Quantitative approaches | |
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| Economics | |
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| Economics and ethnobotany | |
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| The value of the environment | |
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| The value of forest products | |
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| Surveys of community and household economy | |
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| Local markets | |
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| Linguistics | |
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| Learning a local language | |
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| Collaborating with linguists | |
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| Where there is no linguist | |
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| Transcribing the local language | |
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| Linguistic analysis in ethnobotany | |
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| Free listing | |
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| Systematic surveys of local plant knowledge | |
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| Categories of ethnobiological classification | |
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| The correspondence between folk and scientific classification | |
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| Ethnobotany, conservation and community development | |
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| Applying traditional ecological knowledge | |
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| Ethnobotanical research and community development | |
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| Forests | |
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| Conservation of wild crop relatives and endangered useful plants | |
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| Education | |
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| Use of protected areas | |
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| The local perspective on ethnobotanical research | |
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| The path ahead | |
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| References | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Index | |