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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 | |